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What You Need to Know About the Cyber Threat Landscape in 2023

Our new report dives into the perpetual cycles of cybercrime and shows organizations how consolidated intelligence empowers them to fight back

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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    The Cost of Tax Season Fraud: How Threat Actors Target Your Data and Money
    The IRS identified a staggering $5.7 billion in tax fraud schemes last year, over twice the amount reported in ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    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 ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    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 ...
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    Court documents
    COURT DOC: US Federal Agents Arrest Alleged Administrator of Breach Forums “pompompurin”
    On March 17, 2023, US federal agents arrested a New York individual for computer crimes associated with their ...
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    Court documents
    COURT DOC: Two Men Charged for Breaching Federal Law Enforcement Database and Posing as Police Officers to Defraud Social Media Companies
    A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas ...
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    Court documents
    COURT DOC: Justice Department Investigation Leads to Takedown of Darknet Cryptocurrency Mixer that Processed Over $3 Billion of Unlawful Transactions
    The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international takedown of ChipMixer, a darknet ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    Protecting Your Organization’s Digital Identity: A Guide to Managed Attribution
    Managed attribution has become a powerful technique for organizations to gather intelligence and protect ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    ‘Black Skills’ Is Killnet’s Attempt to Form a ‘Private Military Hacking Company’
    A clear riff on the growing presence of private military companies in Russia (primarily the Wagner Group), ...
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    Vulnerability Management
    Recent CISA KEV Additions Include Silent Fixes and Unpatched Vulnerabilities
    Flashpoint has observed two major discrepancies with CVE-2022-35914 and CVE-2022-33891. Security teams need to be ...
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    Court documents
    COURT DOC: Federal Authorities Seize Internet Domain Selling Malware Used to Illegally Control and Steal Data from Victims’ Computers
    As part of an international law enforcement effort, federal authorities in Los Angeles this week seized an ...
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    Vulnerability Management
    Bitwarden: The Curious (Use-)Case of Password Pilfering
    While evaluating the behavior of Bitwarden, a popular password manager browser extension, Flashpoint’s ...
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    Cyber Threat Intelligence
    Private Malware for Sale: A Closer Look at AresLoader
    In December 2022, a private loader named AresLoader was advertised for sale on the top-tier Russian-language ...
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