Synthetic Identity Theft is a growing form of fraud in automotive sales. Fraudsters piece together a fake identity, build up a credit...

Fancy Bear—also known as Strontium or APT28—an alleged Russian state-sponsored espionage group, reportedly has started attacking...

Staying vigilant to cyber attacks transmitted through third party apps could prevent headaches for millions of Android users. 

Interesting anecdotes about individual impact of identity theft. While businesses can force employees to use MFA, consumers will always...

4iQ observed a significant shift from attacking large companies to targeting smaller businesses.  This trend is becoming more...

UniCredit, an Italian bank and financial services organization, recently disclosed a breach of its IT systems affecting approximately 3...

4iQ recently released data from a recent survey focusing on Americans’ attitudes about cybersecurity breaches and the efforts that...

Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, has come under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack resulted in unauthorized access...

I'm not one to believe everything I read on the Internet so let's take this with a grain a salt. Regardless, it's a reminder that...

Sometimes it's not how well you protect yourself online, but how well the companies you interact with protect your data. Without...

There are many ways to be anonymous on the Internet, from VPNs, operating systems, TOR networks, virtual phone numbers and obviously...

Sharing content to social media is a cornerstone of modern culture. As a society, we increasingly engage with our social circles via...

The Wall Street Market was shut down in May 2019. This article gives evidence to the scale and long-tail of dark web criminal marketplaces.

An open database belonging to Autoclerk, a service owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts group, exposed records containing the...

A disturbingly large, crowdsourced child pornography site called "Welcome to Video" was taken out on October 16, 2019, saving 23 actively...

When I was CEO of a quasi-bootstrapped startup, my personal and business finances were very integrated. As identity theft evolves, there...

Businesses using third-parties can face a variety of threats, Retail & Hospitality ISAC  VP of Intel, Carlos P. Kizzee...

Your telephone number is the key to your financial kingdom.  Protect it as you would protect your SSN, name and other sensitive PII....

Incidents like these are going to change our concept of "Know Your Customer" (KYC). Cyber threats are not only coming from external...

Nonprofits are usually focused on making this world a better place, but good deeds won't save an organization from being hacked....

Social Security numbers used to be assigned methodically, coding in geography and birthdate into the digits; however, this made SSNs far...

With a few keystrokes from a connected device anywhere in the world, cybercriminals can hack into databases and steal troves of sensitive...

Adults and children alike are not immune to escalating "synthetic identity fraud"  schemes. 

The vast amount of exposed PII,...

Luke Wilson, 4iQ Vice President of Intelligence, discusses virtual currencies, blockchain technology, and the FinTech industry with

Join 4iQ on October 29, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois, as we partner with Carahsoft at the International Association of Chiefs of Police...

In 2007, Amyn Gilani was deployed to Iraq as a U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command...

Luke Wilson, 4iQ Vice President of Intelligence, discusses virtual currencies, blockchain technology, and the FinTech industry on the...

In August 2019, bad actors sent emails to employees of UAB Medicine, an Alabama medical center, posing as executives and requesting that...

Zendesk, a customer service software provider, announced Wednesday that up to 10,000 of its support and chat accounts may be impacted by...

We can't rely solely on encryption technology to protect us and our credentials from being stolen.  Data breaches occur at an...

BEC, EAC, ATO...new terms for an old problem - identity theft and the financial crimes it enables.

Cybersecurity software becomes more sophisticated every day, intelligently detecting threats and thwarting hackers. But cyber-attackers...

Gnosticplayers, who is known for dumping nearly 1 Billion user records from 44 companies in a series of collection packages earlier this...