November 30, 2025
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Cyber Intelligence > Articles by: Tony Glover

FBI sounds second call to arms to fight cybercrime

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is increasingly anxious to enlist the private sector in the losing battle it is fighting against global cybercrime and espionage. Speaking in Washington on Monday, FBI director Christopher Wray stressed the importance of “collaborative, public-private” operations in fighting cybercrime, developing a strategy previously outlined by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate at a Boston cybersecurity conference three months ago.

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Western Union payouts highlight the “insider threat”

International money transfer company, US-based Western Union, has been obliged to pay a further $40 million on top of a previous $365 million payout to defrauded customers. As many customers were the victims of phishing attacks in which Western Union had already admitted some of its staff were complicit, the payouts highlight the growing “insider threat” now facing multinational corporations.

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Cloud security compromised by constant upgrades

There is mounting evidence that companies may have been naive in accepting Big Tech’s optimistic assurances that sensitive data can be stored more securely in the cloud than on the company’s own servers.  In its latest Attack Surface Threat report, Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks reveals that the cloud has now become “the dominant attack surface”, with four out of five security vulnerabilities observed in organizations across all sectors coming from a cloud environment.

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