SIM Swap Fraud Is Surging — and That’s a Good Thing

A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites—known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)—to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries. These BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public…

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened an investigation into online platforms TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur to assess the steps they are taking to protect children between the ages of 13 and 17 in the country. To that end, the watchdog said it’s probing how the ByteDance-owned video-sharing service uses the personal data of…

As geopolitical tensions rise, the use of cyber operations and hacktivists continues to grow, with the current conflict between Israel and Iran showing the new face of cyber-augmented war.

For the first time, SANS Institute’s five top attack techniques all have one thing in common – AI.

Researcher Gjoko Krstic’s “Project Brainfog” exposed hundreds of zero-day vulnerabilities in building-automation systems still running hospitals, schools, and offices worldwide.

Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay inside the SOC; it shows up as missed SLAs, higher cost per case, and more room…