Author: HackWatchit

BigID announced Privacy Executive Console, a transformative capability within the BigID Next platform designed to empower privacy leaders with a centralized, up-to-date view of their privacy program’s performance, risk posture, and compliance status in a single, intuitive interface. As regulatory scrutiny intensifies and board-level accountability for data privacy grows, organizations can no longer rely on static reports, disconnected tools, and fragmented insights. BigID’s Privacy Executive Console sets a new standard by providing an identity-aware, AI-powered insights center that delivers continuous visibility, proactive risk intelligence, and automated compliance tracking – enabling privacy leaders to drive accountability, mitigate risks, and optimize privacy…

During an unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Nye County Detention Center (Nye) in Pahrump, Nevada, OIG found that Nye’s staff complied with National Detention Standards 2019 (NDS 2019) for classification, access to law library and legal services, segregation, and use of force. However, facility and ICE staff did not fully comply with standards related to medical care, grievances, staff-detainee communication, facility conditions, and telephone access. The OIG found that Nye medical staff did not perform transfer screening, indicate necessary follow-up care for abnormal vital signs and other health complaints, or accurately log its sharp instruments. They…

ColorTokens Inc., a vendor of zero trust microsegmentation, announced on Thursday an integration with Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT and IoT cybersecurity. This collaboration delivers unparalleled visibility and protection across operational environments – seamlessly uniting Nozomi Networks’ AI-powered threat monitoring with ColorTokens’ breach-ready microsegmentation. Together, the two companies now offer universally compatible integration across the Nozomi Platform, including both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, making it easier than ever for organizations to secure complex industrial and healthcare environments without disrupting operations. “Nozomi Networks’ ability to monitor assets and network traffic from the endpoint to the air, including monitoring at the…

Operation Moonlander dismantled the botnet behind Anyproxy and 5socks cybercriminals services Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2025 Law enforcement dismantled a 20-year botnet behind Anyproxy and 5socks cybercriminals services and arrested four suspects. Authorities dismantled a 20-year-old botnet tied to Anyproxy and 5socks as part of an international operation codenamed “Operation Moonlander”; four men, including three Russians, were indicted for running the illegal proxy networks. The U.S. Justice Department charged Russian nationals, Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, 37, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, 41, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin, 36, and Dmitriy Rubtsov, 38, a Kazakhstani national, with Conspiracy and Damage to Protected Computers for conspiring with others to maintain, operate,…

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | RSS Join special guest Chris Brenton, COO of Active Countermeasures, as he discusses the anatomy of beacons and why you need to be looking for them during a threat hunt. He also talks through the challenges of detecting beacons, and some tricks you can use. Slides from the full webcast can be found here: www.activecountermeasures.com/threat-hunting-beacon-analysis-september-11-2018/ Ready to learn more? Level up your skills with affordable classes from Antisyphon! Pay-What-You-Can Training Available live/virtual and on-demand

Scammers are using fake AI tools and Facebook ads to spread Noodlophile Stealer malware, targeting users with a multi-stage attack to steal credentials. Cybersecurity researchers at Morphisec have identified a new malware campaign utilizing fake and malicious artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to distribute a new information stealer dubbed Noodlophile Stealer. This sophisticated tactic exploits the surging popularity of AI tools to trick users into downloading malware that can steal browser credentials, and cryptocurrency wallets, and potentially deploy remote access tools like XWorm. How Does it Work? Morphisec’s threat analysis, shared with Hackread.com ahead of its publishing on 8 May 2025,…

I enjoyed reading this paper, not because I’ve met some of the authors before🫣, but because it felt necessary. Most of the papers I’ve written about so far have made waves in the broader ML community, which is great. This one, though, is unapologetically African (i.e. it solves a very African problem), and I think every African ML researcher, especially those interested in speech, needs to read it. AccentFold tackles a specific issue many of us can relate to: current Asr systems just don’t work well for African-accented English. And it’s not for lack of trying. Most existing approaches use…

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S. Justice Department also indicted three Russian nationals (Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin) and a Kazakhstani (Dmitriy Rubtsov) for their involvement in operating, maintaining, and profiting from these two illegal services. During this joint action dubbed ‘Operation Moonlander,’ U.S. authorities worked with prosecutors and investigators from the Dutch National Police, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie), and the Royal Thai Police, as well as…

Derek Banks// I live in an area that was initially projected to be hit by Hurricane Florence. Four days prior to the storm making landfall the governor of my state issued a mandatory evacuation for the zone that I live in. The floor of my house is about nine feet above sea level and there is a ditch in my backyard that fills up when tidal flooding occurs. During a hurricane that stayed offshore a few years ago, this was someone kayaking through my backyard during high tide. The reports were that the storm could bring a 13 foot plus…