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JPMorgan Chase reported this past week that bank deals have a massive onslaught of hackers trying to commit system breaches on a daily basis.  "There are people trying to hack into JPMorgan Chase 45 billion times a day," she said, calling those occurrences "2x what it was last year."  Chase said the bank, which puts $15 billion toward cyber security and technology each year, has thwarted the daily efforts of such hackers.

These comments, at Davos 2024, coincidentally came in conjunction of an Al

US banks are backing away from crypto companies, concerned by a regulatory crackdown that threatens to sever digital currencies from the real-world financial system.  Banking regulators are raising concerns about banks’ involvement with crypto clients following last year’s blowup of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX. The Securities and Exchange Commission is aggressively pursuing the industry’s bigger players in a crackdown that threatens to narrow their reach.  That move has alarmed bankers who don’t wan

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 4 March 2022:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 5,761 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Malicious Keylogger data is back
• Analysts identified 5,700 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Kraken Botnet
• TA2541 Part II
• Russian Hackers
• Indian Port hit with Malware
• Anonymous: Good or Bad Guys?
• Popular Journalist Hacked
• Bridgestone Americas
• US Banks on High Alert

Link to full report: IR-22-063-001_weekly063.pdf

There is an English ballad which was first published in the 1640’s titled, The World Turned Upside Down.  Many believe the current international geo-political atmosphere meets this time aged ballad.  The US has publicly accused Russia of being responsible for last week’s cyber-attacks targeting Ukraine’s defense ministry and major banks.  Now some experts believe Russia could escalate malicious cyber activity and conduct sophisticated cyber-attacks on the West too.  If this occurs, the attacks w

A pro-Palestinian Malaysian hacker group known as "DragonForce" claimed that it hacked into AcadeME last week, stating "THE LARGEST AND MOST ADVANCED STUDENT AND GRADUATE RECRUITMENT NETWORK IN ISRAEL Hacked By DragonForce Malaysia" in a Telegram message on 20 June.  The group claimed that they leaked emails, passwords, first and last names, addresses and even phone numbers of students who were registered on AcadeME. DragonForce attacked screenshots of code, server addresses and a table includin