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Threat Intelligence

Eight Years for ATM Jackpotting: What the Sentence Tells Us About Cash Machine Crime

A Venezuelan national just received what prosecutors are calling a record federal prison term for a scheme that drained ATMs of millions. Here is what happened, and why it is harder to pull off than it looks on TV.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Before Anyone Reaches the Gate: Why Event Security Starts in the Digital World

A major concert, a championship, a political gathering: the real threats often take shape online, days or weeks before the first fan walks through the door.

3 min read
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AI Security

Give an AI a Body and You Give It an Attack Surface

Warehouses and factories are buying humanoid robots before security teams have a single audit standard to work from. Here is what that means for the people on the floor.

4 min read
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Vulnerabilities

Nine Security Flaws Found in ATM Encryption Software, and Nobody Agrees How Bad It Is

A researcher found serious bugs in software that locks ATM hard drives. The world's biggest ATM maker says they don't matter. The researcher disagrees. The truth is somewhere uncomfortable.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Before the Crowds Arrive: Why Event Security Has to Start Online

From the FIFA World Cup to America's 250th birthday celebrations, the biggest gatherings of 2025 face threats that begin weeks before the first ticket is scanned — and most of those early warning signs appear on the internet, not at the gate.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

The USB Drop That Changed Pen Testing: Steve Stasiukonis's Credit Union Experiment, Revisited

Twenty years ago, a handful of booby-trapped thumb drives in a parking lot became one of the most-cited social-engineering case studies in security history. Here's what actually happened.

3 min read
Threat Intelligence

FBI Flags Silent Ransom Group's Physical Intrusion Tactic Against U.S. Law Firms

The threat actor known as Silent Ransom Group has added walk-in impersonation to its toolkit, sending actors posing as IT support into law firm offices to insert storage devices into employee computers.

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