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 | Sep 15, 2025 | Cybersecurity Trends, Ephemeral Messaging, Reader's Choice, Social Engineering, Traceless Cybersecurity
How Compliance Frameworks Took Center Stage Modern cybersecurity is framed not only around technology but also regulation. Beginning in the 1990s, governments and industries began codifying the rules of data protection. HIPAA was introduced in 1996, setting out...
by Gene Reich | Sep 10, 2025 | Jaguar Land Rover, Marks & Spencer, marks and spencer, Reader's Choice, Scattered Spider
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), one of the UK’s largest exporters and a global automotive brand, disclosed on September 2, 2025, that it had suffered a significant cyber incident. The attack forced the company to shut down its IT systems worldwide, halting production at key...
by Gene Reich | Aug 19, 2025 | AI Fraud Prevention, Cybersecurity Threats, Cybersecurity Trends, Reader's Choice, Social Engineering, Vishing
Transitioning to Identity-Verified Communication Last week, we examined how identity-based fraud is reshaping security priorities across IT, finance, and vendor management. That discussion began with a warning from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, delivered to regulators and...
by Gene Reich | Jul 24, 2025 | Clorox and Cognizant, Cybersecurity for MSPs, Cybersecurity Threats, Reader's Choice, Scattered Spider
In a lawsuit filed this week in California state court, Clorox alleges that IT provider Cognizant Technology Solutions enabled one of the most damaging cybersecurity breaches in the company’s history, due to a lack of secure processes in routine support interactions...
by Gene Reich | Apr 29, 2025 | Cybersecurity for MSPs, Cybersecurity Trends, Reader's Choice
The Hacks That Changed Everything In the early morning hours of February 5, 2016, a message appeared on the network of the Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka. It was a standard, unremarkable instruction—a wire transfer request. Moments later, another. Then another. By the time...
