EvilTokens dashboard showing “Essential Tools” designed to support account compromise, email automation and cybercrime operations. (Image: Microsoft.) Microsoft has disrupted EvilTokens, a subscription cybercrime platform that combined account compromise with artificial intelligence to analyze stolen email, identify fraud opportunities and help attackers impersonate trusted contacts. Microsoft says the service was linked to more than 12,000...Read More
“EvilTokens uses tailored phishing messages to trick victims into authorizing attacker access through Microsoft’s legitimate sign-in process,” explained Jason Rivera, global field CISO at cyber range platform provider SimSpace. “Once inside, AI analyzes the mailbox to identify who controls payments, which business relationships carry trust, and which invoices or transactions present opportunities.” Rivera, an ex-US...Read More
Cybercriminal group ShinyHunters has a surprising new victim: CLOP, a rival hacking group with its own infamous record. Over the weekend, ShinyHunters boasted about hijacking and defacing CLOP’s site on the dark web with an image of a Pokémon. ShinyHunters, perhaps best known for the Canvas breach at thousands of schools earlier this year, claims...Read More
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. TikTok has agreed to a new set of operating rules for teen users in Alabama, as part of a $100 million legal settlement to avoid a trial over teen harms caused by the app. As reported by...Read More
WASHINGTON: TikTok on Sept 25 agreed to pay Alabama at least US$100mil (RM407mil) and enact time limits and other restrictions for teen users, avoiding trial with a settlement modelled on Instagram-owner Meta’s recent agreement with US states. A trial had been set to begin on Sept 28 in the southern US state over claims by...Read More
Toronto police issued more than 1,000 tickets in 10 days this month during back-to-school campaigns that focused on traffic safety and parking enforcement. The campaigns ran from Sept. 8 to Sept. 18 and were aimed at “enhancing safety in school zones through strict enforcement and community engagement across the city,” as per a Toronto Police...Read More
ROMEO, Mich. (WXYZ) — A 70-year-old Romeo man is sharing his story after narrowly avoiding the loss of $30,000 in an online scam, thanks to quick action by Romeo police. Watch Simon’s story in the video player below: Police stop senior from being scammed out of $30,000 The victim, who asked not to be identified,...Read More
Online scamming sites linked to two sanctioned Cambodian tycoons are among those being investigated by the Cambodian authorities, a senior official said yesterday, as the country concluded a two-day anti-scam conference. In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Senior Minister Chhay Sinarith, who heads the government’s ad hoc Commission for Combating Online Scams, said that compounds...Read More
When the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sat down for an interview in the heart of Silicon Valley at the weekend he had known for two days that his was the first government known to have been attacked by a rogue AI agent. He didn’t reveal the attack then, but he sounded a warning about...Read More
