by Gene Reich | Oct 24, 2025 | Reader's Choice, Scattered Spider
In mid-September, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency jointly unsealed charges against two British teenagers accused of orchestrating one of the most financially damaging cyber extortion campaigns of the past decade. Nineteen-year-old...
by Gene Reich | Oct 17, 2025 | Secure Communication, Social Engineering
In the past decade, the standard security perimeter used by organizations has collapsed: Information no longer lives in data centers alone; conversations, approvals, and transactions unfold across a multitude of channels: chat platforms, emails, cloud tools, help...
by Gene Reich | Oct 10, 2025 | Banking Security, Financial Services Security Best Practices, Trends
In the financial sector, trust has always been the currency behind every interaction. Clients expect not only that their money will be handled with care but also that their identities, accounts, and private conversations will be safeguarded. Yet within the everyday...
by Gene Reich | Oct 10, 2025 | Discord Breach, Social Engineering, ZenDesk
On September 20, 2025, an unauthorized party breached a third-party customer support system used by Discord. The attacker gained access to support tickets, attachments, and associated metadata, not by breaching Discord’s own servers but by exploiting the vendor,...
