Dr. Honggang Wang, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital health applications expert, received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to improve cybersecurity education and research in mobile health. The project titled "Augmenting Cybersecurity Education in Mobile Health (mHealth) Through Curriculum and Experimental Platform Development" will introduce a new mobile health cybersecurity course with detailed modules covering wearable device security, body sensor network security, trustworthy AI, and more. Dr.

The National Football league has more to contend with than the actual games on the field. The teams have experienced cyberattacks on their customers, players, arenas, and data. In today’s digital age, the companies are protecting their assets that control the game and connecting with their fans as well as handling everything from concession sales, stadium operations, loyalty programs, bio-metric check-ins at stadiums, and WI-FI in the stands. Fan information, real-time player data, video broadcast, and their brands all need to be protected.

Ankita Gupta, Rita Chhikara, and Prabha Sharma of the NorthCap University in Gurugram, India, have introduced a new method for detecting hidden messages in digital images. Their work advances steganalysis, a key field in cybersecurity and digital forensics. Steganography involves embedding data within media (e.g., words hidden in a digital image's bits and bytes). There are legitimate uses of steganography, but there may be more malicious ones, so law enforcement and security need effective detection.

German authorities seized 47 cryptocurrency exchange services hosted in the country, which facilitated ransomware groups' illegal money laundering activities. The platforms enabled users to exchange cryptocurrencies without complying with applicable "Know Your Customer" regulations, ensuring that users remained completely anonymous during transactions. This created a low-risk environment where cybercriminals could launder their proceeds without fear of being prosecuted or tracked. This article continues to discuss the seizure of 47 cryptocurrency exchanges used by ransomware groups.

Law enforcement agencies in Europe and Latin America have dismantled "iServer," a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform used by criminals to unlock stolen and lost phones. "Operation Kaerb" led to the dismantling of iServer, which targeted over 1.2 million mobile phones and made over 480,000 victims. According to investigators, there have been 483,000 victims, mostly Spanish-speaking nationals in European, North American, and South American countries. This article continues to discuss the iServer PhaaS platform used by criminals to harvest credentials and unlock phones.

Two people have been charged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for stealing over $230 million in cryptocurrency from an individual in Washington, DC. Malone Lam and Jeandiel Serrano are accused of stealing cryptocurrency and trying to launder the proceeds through exchanges and mixing services. The two would hack cryptocurrency accounts and transfer funds to wallets controlled by them, using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other tools to hide. This article continues to discuss the hackers charged for the theft of $230 million in cryptocurrency.

Researchers with the Recorded Future Insikt Group reported that a prolific group of threat actors known as "Marko Polo" is responsible for at least 30 cybercrime scams, including malware attacks, phishing attacks, and cryptocurrency fraud. The group's schemes have hit tens of thousands of victims. They have targeted cryptocurrency influencers and online gaming personalities using social engineering techniques. This article continues to discuss findings regarding the Marko Polo hackers.

Thales found that Application Programming Interface (API) adoption and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered bot attacks are rising and costing global organizations tens of billions of dollars yearly. The company's "Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks" report shares findings from the analysis of 161,000 cybersecurity incidents. According to the report, the cost of insecure APIs grew from $12 billion in 2021 to $35-87 billion today, and up to $116 billion can be attributed to bot attacks. Bot and API threats average $94-186 billion in losses.

A recently discovered Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named "SambaSpy" has a Swiss Army knife-like set of spying and data theft functions. Its creators, believed to be Brazilian, have made the RAT difficult to detect and analyze by obfuscating it with "Zelix KlassMaster," a legitimate tool that developers often use to protect their code from reverse engineering and unauthorized modification. This article continues to discuss findings regarding the SambaSpy RAT.