According to ZDNet: Scam-as-a-Service operation made more than $6.5 million in 2020
“Classiscam” operation is made up of around 40 groups operating in the US and across several European countries.
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Gamers Are Under Attack – Who’s Really Protecting Them?
🎮 Gamers Are Under Attack – Nobody’s Talking About It
👀 Hackers are impersonating fellow players, streamers, and even dev teams to breach millions of gaming accounts.
🔓 Social engineering attacks are rapidly growing – especially targeting Gen Z gamers with poor cyber hygiene and platforms with weak internal defenses.
💸 And yes, there’s real money at stake – credentials, in-game purchases, and sensitive data are being stolen daily.
🚨 Gaming companies often ignore social engineering training for their teams – thinking it’s a “user problem.”
🧠 But what if your staff is being targeted too?
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🧠 CISOs: Top 10 Open-Source SIEM Solutions to Try for Free 🧠
Most SIEMs come with a hefty price tag – but did you know some of the most powerful options out there are 100% free and open-source?
If you’re building or optimizing your SOC on a lean budget, these tools can offer serious value without compromising visibility.
Here’s a handpicked list of 10 open-source SIEMs every CISO should consider:
1️⃣ Wazuh – Lightweight, scalable, and packed with threat detection, log analysis, and compliance capabilities.
https://wazuh.com/
2️⃣ TheHive Project – Incident response meets SIEM – great for managing complex investigations.
https://thehive-project.org/
3️⃣ Security Onion – Full Linux distro for threat hunting, IDS, and log analysis.
https://securityonionsolutions.com/
4️⃣ Graylog – Powerful centralized log management with excellent dashboards and alerting.
https://www.graylog.org/
5️⃣ SIEMonster – Built for scalability and based on multiple open-source tools like ELK and Wazuh.
https://siemonster.com/
6️⃣ Elastic SIEM (via ELK Stack) – Combine Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to visualize threats and trends.
https://www.elastic.co/siem
7️⃣ Apache Metron – Big data SIEM built on Hadoop – ideal for large-scale enterprise analysis.
https://metron.apache.org/
8️⃣ MozDef (Mozilla Defense Platform) – Created by Mozilla to automate incident response.
https://github.com/mozilla/MozDef
9️⃣ AlienVault OSSIM – The classic open-source SIEM with broad community support.
https://cybersecurity.att.com/products/ossim
🔟 Prelude OSS – Modular architecture for detection and correlation, great for custom setups.
https://www.prelude-siem.org/
These solutions offer incredible flexibility and insight when configured right – perfect for proactive teams that want to experiment, test, and deploy fast.
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When Hospitals Flatline: What the AMEOS Cyberattack Reveals About the Human Factor in Cybersecurity
🧠 Hospital Cyberattack Exposes Deadly Blind Spot
📉 Over 20 AMEOS facilities were digitally frozen in minutes.
📍 How? Not ransomware. Not brute force.
But humans.
🎯 Social engineering is the silent weapon that breached Germany’s hospital giant – not through firewalls, but through staff behavior.
⚠️ This attack exploited the timing of an internal IT shift – when stress, confusion, and change opened the door.
🛑 And what’s worse?
Most healthcare organizations would still fall for it today.
👥 Because while tech evolves, our human defenses remain outdated.
💡 AMEOS isn’t alone – it’s just the latest example of why cybersecurity starts with real-time, behavior-based awareness.
🔐 AUMINT Trident targets exactly this – tracking human risk, simulating social engineering attacks by role, and delivering auto-adaptive training based on how your team actually behaves.
📊 If you’re only measuring technical threats, you’re missing the real battleground.
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