hacktivists

Pro-Russian Hacktivists: A Reaction to a Western Response to a Russian Aggression

Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. With a slight alteration, Newton's law can be applied to geopolitics: for every action, there ...
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Is Trafficking in Hacking Information a Crime?

Quincy Compton of Concord, North Carolina, had a wife and a pregnant girlfriend and wrote to a doctor in Washington, D.C. for information about terminating a pregnancy. The doctor, Thomas Kemp, wrote ...
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threat intelligence

Threat Intelligence Feeds for Better DDoS Protection

DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks have become a major threat to a huge variety of businesses, from the smallest to the largest multi-national corporations. DDoS attacks can cause significant damage and ...
Another One Bites the Dust: The (Apparent) End of Breach Forums

Another One Bites the Dust: The (Apparent) End of Breach Forums

The cycle of fraud venue shutdowns continued on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, when Breach Forums administrator Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “pompompurin”), was arrested and charged with a single count of conspiracy to ...
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Cybersecurity Risk Quantification: A New Way to Understand Risks

Digital fraud and cybersecurity risks are always with us, and they’re constantly changing as businesses open new channels and adopt new technologies that criminals work to exploit. Data breaches are an especially ...
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The AI Risk Landscape: How ChatGPT Is Shaping the Way Threat Actors Work

The AI Risk Landscape: How ChatGPT Is Shaping the Way Threat Actors Work

Flashpoint assesses that ChatGPT will lower the barrier to entry for basic hacking tasks, such as scanning open ports, crafting phishing emails, and deploying virtual machines for low-sophisticated threat actors. The post ...

February 2023 Threat Intelligence Summary

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Camelot Launches Cybersecurity Service Augmented by ML

Camelot this week launched a Secure360 cybersecurity platform that enables its cybersecurity team to leverage machine learning algorithms to perform vulnerability and assessments, cyberthreat hunting and cyberthreat intelligence analysis. Camelot CEO Stanford ...
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Stopping Abuse in the Digital Age With The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative

Stopping Abuse in the Digital Age With The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative

At HYAS, we take pride in our effort to try to make a positive impact on the world whenever possible. Cybersecurity, of course, is a business, but stopping bad actors helps protect ...