Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.…

Ransomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services The relationship between infamous cybercrime outfit Evil Corp and the Russian state is thought to be extraordinarily close, so close that intelligence officials allegedly ordered the criminals to carry out cyberattacks on NATO members.…

The future of effective crowdsourced cybersecurity according to Bugcrowd Webinar It was the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon who first wrote 'knowledge is power,' a phrase which is probably equally applicable in fighting cybercrime today as it was in 1597 when he first committed it to paper. Because failing to keep up with the latest intel on malware and hacking methods can leave your organization open to a lot of potential risks.…

Researchers analyzing the leaked chats of the notorious Conti ransomware operation have discovered that teams inside the Russian cybercrime group were actively developing firmware hacks. [...]

Interpol, cops swoop with intel from cybersecurity bods Interpol and cops in Africa have arrested a Nigerian man suspected of running a multi-continent cybercrime ring that specialized in phishing emails targeting businesses.…