Imagine the following scenario: you receive an email from an old acquaintance that you did not expect. Your friend has attached a document they want you to examine; however, what you do not realize is that your friend’s email has been compromised. Shortly after receiving and opening the email, you…
Recently, the Department of Justice announced that a “December 2023 court-authorized operation disrupted a botnet of hundreds of U.S.-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored hackers.” This operation required the DOJ to delete the botnet coding from the routers in question and block…
When discussing the goings-on of the cybercriminal world, our goal is to give you a larger sense of the threats out there. However, until this article we have yet to address a certain contradiction that exists among many cybercriminal networks. It is not unusual for talented cyberespionage teams to also…
One of the goals of the MyIDMatters quarterly issue is to keep you abreast of new threats in the crimeware space. This way, you not only defend yourself against bad actors, but you also have a better understanding of how they work. In a recent crimeware report, Kaspersky identified new…
By this point, most everyone is at least casually familiar with the AI software ChatGPT, which allows users to input a variety of requests and parameters to produce original pieces of writing. This has resulted in a previously user-generated activity now being automated en masse, altering the way we engage…
With the preponderance of articles and think-pieces dedicated to crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) this year (some of them covered here on MyIDMatters), we might do well to call 2023 “The Year of CaaS.” Unfortunately, however, the rise of CaaS has not led to a rise in awareness of the ways in which…
For many of us, our phones and applications are an important source of information and convenience: look no further than the map apps we turn to when we are in a new place or looking for the fastest commute to work. At their core, devices that allow us to keep…
By now, we have all used Google’s search engine enough to know that the top-ranking pages are the most popular pages: “top-ranking” does not necessarily ensure the most accurate or even the most pertinent information. This is because search engines operate from an algorithm that assesses which content is the…
Although we have previously written about cloud security, the outlook of 2023 suggests that cloud security attacks will once again be on the rise. With previous attacks striking major corporations like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Marriott, it is clear that nobody is immune. When enacting cloud attacks, cybercriminals are searching for…
Arguably, one of the most impactful software trends over the last decade is the ubiquity of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Instead of downloading and storing software on your computer, an outside company hosts the application on their server and allows you to access it at a price. This is a convenient…