Month: September 2021

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has appointed Kiersten Todt as its new chief of staff.
In her new role, cybersecurity veteran Todt will be tasked with alloca

A student who hacked into a British university’s computer network and made thousands of dollars by selling the answers to exams has been sentenced to prison.
Hayder Aljayyash, who is 29 and was born i

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews:
Attackers are exploiting zero-day RCE flaw to target Windows users (CVE-2021-40444)
Attackers are exploiti

An Ontario resident, who admitted laundering tens of millions of dollars stolen by cyber-criminals in various wire and bank fraud schemes, is to spend the next 140 months in a United States federal pr

S.O.V.A. Android banking trojan is actively being advertised on Russian hacker and cybercrime forums.
In early August 2021, ThreatFabric’s team of researchers discovered a new Android banking trojan n

An Oklahoma man has been sent to prison for his role in an online romance scam that defrauded victims across the United States out of at least $2.5m.
Norman resident Afeez Olajide Adebara was handed