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Q&A with Chris Fowler, Director of Emerging Technologies at ADT Commercial, Part Two
What new technologies are poised to change/improve how we protect public spaces and businesses? How soon until these technologies will be widely available / adopted by businesses? Technology innovation in this space is happening quickly, focusing on tools to help de-escalate and prevent violent situations. Part Two: At ADT Commercial, we’re focused on researching and developing three key technologies to support this.
Tech innovations aim to help security leaders proactively prevent violent situations instead of being reactionary to them. Within the next few years, we expect to see these innovations enter public spaces and workplaces to make them safer. security.world.com adt.com Part Three Monday: What tips would you offer employers looking to create a safer workplace today?
Step one in any crisis: Stop the bleeding. Retailers lost $94.5 billion
to thieves in 2021. Now they're stemming that figurative tide and preventing new
wounds with FaceFirst's powerful investigative tools.
Feds Didn't Seek Death
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How the FBI hacked HiveThe bureau is trying to take the fight to foreign ransomware gangs, even if it means giving up on bringing some of them behind bars. When the FBI took down a notorious cybercrime gang known as Hive earlier this year, it did so without arresting a single person. It was a coup that reflects a notable change in the way the agency fights cybercrime — focusing on outwitting hackers and disrupting them from afar rather than detaining them. Most cybercriminals operate in countries that are beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. Hive was once one of the world’s most prolific criminal syndicates, notorious for shutting down the networks of American schools, businesses and health care facilities — and then demanding ransoms to restore access. But FBI field agents in Florida managed to unravel the group using little more than a keyboard, first hacking their way into Hive’s network in July 2022, and then undermining its extortion efforts by helping targeted organizations unlock their systems on their own. The FBI estimates it saved victims across the globe roughly $130 million with the sting — a feat that proves the effectiveness of the approach, said Adam Hickey, the deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s national security division at the time of the Hive takedown. But the approach also has its limits. POLITICO interviews with FBI officials behind the effort and independent cybersecurity experts provide fresh details on how the FBI pulled off the sting and why it could often only weaken — and not quite extinguish — the Hive operation. The effort to infiltrate the gang was long and labor-intensive. And while the FBI’s digital sabotage yielded temporary gains, the criminals — still at large — now can regroup and start over again, knowing full well that U.S. law enforcement is on their heels. “Unless you’re taking down the leadership and literally locking them up, it’s highly unlikely you’ll be able to stop ‘ransomware’ groups from resurfacing in a meaningful way,” said Kurtis Minder, CEO of cybersecurity company GroupSense, who has acted as a ransomware negotiator on behalf of several victims. Hive first came on the FBI’s radar in July 2021. Over the next 18 months, Hive launched upward of 1,500 attacks across the globe and collected roughly $100 million in cryptocurrency from its victims, according to estimates from U.S. law enforcement. The group expanded so fast, in part, by turning ruthlessness into a powerful engine of growth, targeting organizations, such as hospitals and health care providers, that other cybercriminals had declared off limits. They learned, for example, how Hive was not exactly one group but several, closer to a branded franchise like McDonald’s than a tight-knight mafia. The group ran what cybercrime experts call a ransomware-as-a-service model, in which the Hive’s core members rent encryption software to a vast web of other criminals, or “affiliates,” who specialize in penetrating networks and deploying the ransomware payload. Twelve months after that first case hit the Tampa desk, Crenshaw finally had a breakthrough. He found a way to break into the group’s remote administration panel, a digital nerve center where gang members safeguard the keys that allow them to scramble — and then “save” — the data of every hospital, school, and small business that fell within their grasp. Crenshaw and Bryan Smith, a section chief for the FBI’s cyber criminals operations section, did not specify how they pulled that feat off. For the next six months, FBI Tampa provided keys to more than 300 new victims across the globe. Crenshaw’s team became so good at offering technical assistance to victims it eventually gave itself a sly nickname, Crenshaw said: “Hive helpdesk.” But the FBI’s success infiltrating Hive never translated to the group’s wholesale demolition. Hive members likely remain active under a new name, argued Minder, of GroupSense. Sometime in early January of this year, the Tampa field office came to its second major discovery, one that would change the Hive case for good. On the basis of more meticulous investigative work, the FBI learned that Hive had rented the primary servers it used to stage its attacks from a data center in Los Angeles. Just two weeks later, it seized the hardware. Shortly thereafter, it announced the takedown. politico.com
Only 5% of CISOs report to CEOs, survey findsCISOs are still most likely to report to the CIO, but Heidrick & Struggles expects that to change as cyber responsibilities evolve. CISOs predominantly report to CIOs and are less likely to report to CEOs now than previous years, according to a Heidrick & Struggles survey. Just 5% of CISOs reported to the CEO this year, down from 8% in 2022 and 11% in 2021, the executive search company’s global survey of CISOs found. Despite a slight year-over-year decrease, more than one-third of CISOs report directly to the CIO. Heidrick & Struggles found CISOs also report to CTOs, COOs, global CISOs and chief risk officers, part of a reporting structure that underscores a leftward shift for the CISO role from compliance to technology, the research found. Two-thirds of CISOs represented in the survey are two levels down from the CEO, reporting to a role that reports directly to the CEO, the survey found. The firm expects the number of CISOs reporting to CIOs to decrease further as CISOs take on a more broad enterprise risk oversight role with regular presentations to the audit committee and board. “What we are seeing, particularly this year, is that CISOs have significant visibility with the full board and its relevant committees — demonstrating that while CISOs might not have a direct line to the CEO, they are still being heard and increasingly integrated into organizational strategy,” Thompson said. The majority of CISOs, 3 in 5, present to the full board and nearly 4 in 5 present to a special committee, the research found. cybersecuritydive.com
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Only Three Specific Botnets Accounted for 95% of ExploitationsBotnets responsible for over 95% of malicious web traffic globally: ReportFor the research, Trustwave implemented a network of honeypots located in multiple countries including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the UK, China, and the US. During the six-month period that ended May 2023, the research Trustwave analyzed 38,000 unique IPs, downloading a little over 1,100 payloads served in exploitation attempts. "Almost 19% of the total recorded web traffic was malicious, and botnets were responsible for over 95% of the malicious web traffic detected," the report said. The primary objective of these botnet attacks was to upload a web shell, a malicious script for unauthorized access into compromised websites or servers, enabling attackers to carry out further actions against Trustwave honeypots posing as potential victims. On further analysis, the research found that Mozi, Kinsing,
and Mirai botnets accounted for almost all (95%) of these exploitation attempts.
While Mozi accounted for 73% of the botnets used, Mirai and Kinsing
contributed to 9% and 13% respectively.
Why companies should consider having a chief trust officerTrust should be an important factor for every business. It’s
time to ask yourself: According to the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, in this age of rising domestic polarization in countries that include the United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom, trust is fleeting. Those surveyed observed that their "employer is the only trusted institution" in their individual worlds. How do you measure corporate trust?To better understand such measures, Deloitte has a framework called The Four Factors of Trust that distills the trust dynamic down and provides a starting point for measuring where one stands with an organization. These four factors are:
When an action takes place that erodes trust, things go south in a hurry. Imagine not being able to trust an entity within your supply chain or those who supply you with needed items not trusting you. In a recent MIT Technology Review piece, Elena Kvochko, chief trust officer at SAP, highlighted that "trust is a clear competitive differentiator -- having a recognized awareness that this is an important function and this is an important direction for the company -- it was critical for our success." csoonline.com
Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flawMicrosoft is having a rough week with troubles including an Outlook.com bug that prevented some email users from searching their messages for several hours on Thursday, and a Teams flaw that allows people to send phishing emails and malware to other Teams users. theregister.com |
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Young man sent to prison for over 30 years for crime spree
Zanesville, OH: Jury finds Gahanna woman guilty of 41 charges related to regional theft ring.A Gahanna woman was recently found guilty of 41 charges following a jury after trial in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court. She's yet to be sentenced, but faces up to 57 years in prison. Juliana F.C. Washington, 29, was indicted in April with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first-degree felony, with a three year firearm specification, assault, a second-degree felony, with a three year firearm specification and violent offender specification and multiple counts of theft, petty theft, possessing criminal tools, receiving stolen property, identity fraud, tampering with evidence, forgery, attempted theft and grant theft of a motor vehicle. Washington was one of four individuals indicted related to a regional theft ring. Earlier this year five women at a yoga studio reported their cars were broken into and purses stolen. Their purses contained identification cards, credit cards and checkbooks. Deputies with the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office were called to a gymnastics gym for an additional report of a vehicle break-in shortly after taking the other reports. Tangipahoa Parish, LA: Serial Walmart burglar stole nearly $7,000 of merchandise from store as part of spree throughout southeast La.
Memphis, TN: Thieves fire shots at Southland Mall store manager; $3000 of merchandise stolen.
Batavia, NY: Shoplifting suspect flees Target on foot with more than $2,000 in merchandise
Peachtree City, PA: Shoplifters hit Walmart in volume — 4 arrested
Elmore County, AL: Woman charged with 26 counts of theft at Millbrook Walmart
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(video) New York, NY: Employee arrested after deadly stabbing inside Midtown CVS.The NYPD says a CVS employee stabbed a man to death inside a Midtown store Thursday. Officers were sent to the CVS on Broadway near West 49th Street just after 12 a.m. for a report of a robbery. When they arrived, they found a 50-year-old man suffered from a stab wound to the torso. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police say the victim had been shoplifting before the stabbing. Forty-six-year-old Scotty Enoe, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Akron, OH: 34-year-old Akron woman fatally shot in Dollar General parking lot.Akron police are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a woman in the parking lot of a Dollar General store Monday afternoon. According to police, the shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. at the store located in the 2000 block of W. Market St. Police said Ernestine Stallings, 34, and a friend had just left the store after buying balloons. When officers arrived at the store, a citizen was giving Stallings first aid. EMS transported Stallings to Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center where she was pronounced deceased.
Columbus, OH: Police Officer shot, suspect dead and two arrested after armed robbery chase on I-70.A Columbus police officer is hospitalized and a suspect is dead and two others are arrested after cruisers chased a trio of accused robbers on the highway Thursday. Around 4 p.m., one Columbus police officer was shot in the leg during a shoot-out that occurred on Interstate 70 near West Mound Street as cruisers pursued three suspects accused of robbing a Whitehall car dealership and later a bank, police said. Medics pronounced one suspect dead at 4:20 p.m Two suspects — both of whom ran southbound from the stolen car when the police pursuit ended — remained at large, according to Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Joe Albert. They were arrested nearly 15 hours later, Friday morning in the North Linden area.
Erie, PA: Update: Echoing earlier case, self-defense hinted at in latest fatal shooting at Erie Quick Stop.On May 16, for the second time in less than three years, video cameras captured a fatal shooting from start to finish at the Quick Stop convenience store at West 18th and Chestnut streets in Erie. The similarities do not end there. The defendant in the May 16 shooting is raising the same defense that the defendant put forth in the previous fatal shooting, which happened in October 2020. The defendant in the May 16 shooting, 26-year-old Jaquan O. Harris, told police that he shot the victim, 22-year-old Jalen Rieger-Williams, in self-defense just as an unarmed Rieger-Williams walked inside the store, according to testimony at Harris' preliminary hearing on Thursday. "Dude was about to kill me," Harris said in an interview with police, according to testimony. In the previous case, the defendant, Kyontia L. Blanks, said he acted in self-defense in fatally shooting 40-year-old Frederick Perry on Oct. 21, 2020, as Blanks stood outside the front of the Quick Stop and an unarmed Perry got out of his newly parked car. Blanks, who shot Perry in the chest and shoulder at point-blank range, said Perry had threatened to kill him weeks earlier in a dispute over a woman. Blanks, 27, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter at a jury trial in Erie County Common Pleas Court in January and was sentenced to nine to 18 years in state prison in February.
Erie County, NY: Buffalo man sentenced for injuring victim in shooting at Cheektowaga dollar store.Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced 34-year-old Travis J. Green of Buffalo was sentenced this morning before Erie County Court Judge Sheila A. DiTullio to 10 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision. On Nov. 14, 2017, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the defendant entered a Dollar General store on Union Road in the Town of Cheektowaga to request an employment application. During the incident, the defendant became irate and exited the store. While in the parking lot, the defendant removed a high-powered rifle from his vehicle and fired numerous rounds from the parking lot into the front of the store. Several customers and employees were inside of the store at the time of the shooting. One customer was injured by gunfire. After the shooting, the defendant ran from the scene, but was apprehended nearby by Cheektowaga Police officers. Investigators found a second high-powered rifle and more than 850 rounds of ammunition during a search of the defendant’s vehicle. The victim, a 53-year-old man, was taken by ambulance to ECMC where he was treated for injuries to his arm and shoulder. Green pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder in the second degree (class “B” violent felony). The defendant pleaded guilty to the highest count in full satisfaction of the indictment against him on May 25, 2023.
Fresno, CA: Suspect bites employee during robbery at jewelry store inside Fresno mall.A suspect managed to get away with expensive jewelry after biting an employee at a store inside a Fresno mall on Thursday night. The robbery happened around 7 pm at Devons Jewelers inside the Fashion Fair Mall near First Street and Shaw Avenue. Fresno police say a suspect was trying to leave the store with stolen jewelry before being stopped by an employee. During the confrontation, officials say the suspect bit the employee twice before managing to escape the store with the jewelry. The store's employee suffered minor injuries. Officers are still working to find the suspect.
(video) Lebec, CA: New body camera footage reveals the moments following a multi-million dollar jewelry heist.The two drivers lingered in the darkness in the hours after their Brink’s big rig was burglarized at the Flying J Travel Center. They tried to make sense of the brazen, late-night jewelry heist. “If this was me and I was going to do something like this, I’d try to stay in the shadows as much as possible,” theorized driver James Beaty. The other driver, Tandy Motley, had another thought: “You know what worries me the most is they always want to blame the employee first.” It was after 3 a.m. on July 11, and thieves had just made off with more than 20 large bags of jewelry, gems and other items that the Brink’s tractor-trailer had been transporting from the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo to the L.A. area. The heist occurred during a 27-minute window in which Beaty slumbered in the vehicle’s sleeper berth and Motley ate a meal at the Flying J, a sprawling truck stop just off Interstate 5’s sinuous Grapevine in Lebec, Calif.
Troy, NY: Police dog makes 'remarkable recovery' after being stabbed 12 times by burglary suspect.A police dog is recovering after being stabbed 12 times while biting a burglary suspect in upstate New York, his employer said. Norbi, a Belgian Malinois, was stabbed early Wednesday during a pursuit of a suspected burglar targeting homes in the Emerald Greens neighborhood of Troy, the city’s police department said in a statement. The dog and his handler were trying to take the suspect into custody in a wooded area when the suspect stabbed Norbi a dozen times with a knife, according to police.
(video) Wilmington, NC: Fire Department frees child accidentally locked in gun safe at local store.On Saturday, July 1, the Wilmington Fire Department responded to Sportsman’s Warehouse after a child had been unintentionally locked in a gun safe. According to an announcement from the Wilmington Professional Firefighters Association, the child’s sister had accidentally locked her in the safe. On scene, units with the WFD quickly cut the hinges off of the door. “Mistakes can happen in an instant, especially with children,” states the Wilmington Professional Firefighters Association. According to a representative with the fire department, the trapped child was unharmed in the incident.
Columbus, OH: Columbus City Attorney hopes to reduce shoplifting by helping those who steal out of need.The Columbus City Attorney's Office is one of five prosecutors' offices nationwide piloting a program aimed at decreasing shoplifting by helping nonviolent offenders who steal low-value items out of desperation. City Attorney Zach Klein announced what his office is calling "Buckeye Deflection" on Thursday, a pilot project by the national Association of Prosecuting Attorneys in partnership with Justice System Partners. “Buckeye Deflection is working to improve lives and meet the needs of those struggling in our community while also freeing up prosecutors to go after violent and higher level criminals who pose a serious threat to public safety,” Klein said. The City Attorney's Prosecution Division will identify low-level offenders whose crimes stem from quality-of-life factors like homelessness, poverty, mental illness or substance use. The aim is to connect individuals with community resources that can help improve their lives and lead them to forego stealing again.
Macon, GA: Store employee arrested in connection to Family Dollar armed robbery
Chicago, IL: CPD investigating after 4 armed robberies overnight on Northwest Side
Atlanta, GA: Bulletproof glass helps stop store clerk being shot by would-be robber |
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Here's
how one retailer identified an extensive gift card scam and stopped it cold in
less than three hours. A store manager notified the retailer's AP team that a
masked man removed 50 Apple gift cards from the store without activating them.
(This is the first step in a known, complex gift card fraud scheme.) The AP team
ran a FaceFirst search. Even with the mask covering half of the man's face,
the search quickly revealed that he repeated the gift card thefts in 21 stores.
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identify organized retail crime (ORC) activity and trends. Develop strategies to
reduce organized retail criminal activity against Macy’s. Perform other duties
as assigned. Leads, manages and coordinates investigations into Organized
Criminal Activity. Utilize field surveillance tactics to develop and validate
ORC investigations into persons and establishments of interest.
The
Manager, Enterprise Safe & Secure Support will lead the Enterprise Safe & Secure
Support Team in the identification and mitigation of opportunities to improve
the security and safety of our associates, assets, and profitability. In
collaboration with various business functions, this leader will gain consensus
and build cross functional project teams to implement solutions across our
network of businesses.
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