12 Aug 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 8/12/2025

Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud. The plummeting cost of using AI, coupled with the increasing sophistication of deepfakes and electronic communications becoming the norm, means that we're likely…
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08 Jul 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/8/2025

BERT Ransomware Group Targets Asia and Europe on Multiple Platforms In April, a new ransomware group known as BERT, has been observed targeting organizations across Asia and Europe. Trend™ Research telemetry has confirmed the emergence and activity of this ransomware. This blog entry examines BERT’s tools and tactics across multiple variants. By comparing its different iterations, we unpack how the ransomware group operates, how their methods have evolved, and the tactics they employed to evade detection and defenses.…
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09 Nov 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/09/2023

Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach  The Monero Project is admitting that one of its wallets was drained by an unknown source in September, losing the equivalent of around $437,000 at today's exchange rate. A Monero Project maintainer who goes by the alias of Luigi announced on November 2 that the project's community crowdfunding system (CCS) wallet was drained of 2,675.73 XMR on September 1. The team behind Monero is…
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20 Feb 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 2/20/2020

1 - Estonian foreign intelligence warns of growing cyber threats from Russia Russia will continue to engage in cyber operations to threaten Western nations, with sanctions so far proving ineffective. The warning comes from the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS), which in its 2020 annual threat assessment report states that Russian cyber operations have been successful so far and will continue to look for new security vulnerabilities to exploit in coming months. "In 2019, Russian…
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26 Nov 2019
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/26/2019

1 - The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers’ Personal Information In a public record acts request, Motherboard asked the California DMV for the total dollar amounts paid by commercial requesters of data for the past six years. The responsive document shows the total revenue in financial year 2013/14 as $41,562,735, before steadily climbing to $52,048,236 in the financial year 2017/18. The document doesn't name the commercial requesters, but some specific companies…
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