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In Q4 2024, cyber threats reached unprecedented levels, with 2.55 billion attacks blocked, equating to 321 threats every second. In this Help Net Security video, Luis Corrons, …

A new report from Gen highlights a sharp rise in online threats, capping off a record-breaking 2024. Between October and December alone, 2.55 billion cyber threats were …

Telegram will start handing over the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate their Terms of Service “to relevant authorities in response to valid legal …

Ransomware and extortion incidents surged by 67% in 2023, according to NTT Security Holdings’ 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report. Global ransomware crisis After a …

We stand at a crossroads for election misinformation: on one side our election apparatus has reached a higher level of security and is better defended from malicious attackers …

Meta, the company that owns some of the biggest social networks in use today, has explained how it means to tackle disinformation related to the upcoming EU Parliament …

Cybercriminals increasingly use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to craft convincing backstories, often by mining social media profiles for details on a target’s …

Have you ever been swept away by an enticing headline and didn’t bother to probe the news in-depth? You might have shared an eye-catching news story or engaged with a …

A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the …

Five days after Mastodon developers pushed out fixes for a remotely exploitable account takeover vulnerability (CVE-2024-23832), over 66% of Mastodon servers out there have …

As AI tools become more widespread, impersonation and deception have become easier. However, organizations are combating this issue with policies and technological solutions. …

In this Help Net Security interview, Jayson E. Street, Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, discusses intriguing aspects of social engineering and unconventional methods …