Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and Harafat Mogaji, former airmen stationed at Dover Air Force Base, were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for running business email compromise and phishing schemes that diverted corporate wire transfers, including a $1.68 million payment from an Iowa City victim and a $720,000 payment from an Ohio victim. Odimegwu received 111 months and must pay over $366,000 in restitution, while Mogaji got 78 months and owes nearly $996,000, with both facing three years of supervised release afterward.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-29
A cybersecurity vendor is promoting 'Identity Telemetry,' a real-time monitoring approach meant to complement traditional Identity Governance tools like role-based access and periodic reviews. The pitch argues that static governance policies alone cannot detect breaches as they happen, and organizations need continuous visibility into identity events to catch active threats.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-29
Google's Threat Intelligence Group disclosed a credential-harvesting operation where attackers compromised cloud infrastructure and deployed a multi-agent AI framework that scanned for vulnerabilities, fixed its own errors, and rotated IP addresses largely without human input. The entire campaign, which compromised thousands of third-party credentials, took less than six hours to execute. Separately, Microsoft found AI-assisted phishing messages reaching click-through rates of 54%, compared to roughly 12% for conventional campaigns.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-17
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