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A Chinese venture capital firm was scammed out of $1 million in a noteworthy BEC (Business Email Compromise, or CEO fraud) scam, CyberScoop reports. The million dollars was supposed to be ...
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A Chinese venture capital firm was scammed out of $1 million in a noteworthy BEC (Business Email Compromise, or CEO fraud) scam, CyberScoop reports. The million dollars was supposed to be ...
TORONTO -- A new piece of sophisticated technology is being used by fraudsters to scam unsuspecting people over the phone. Police said a woman in York Region received a call earlier this ...
We've got a few important updates to share with you for the month of November!
According to Enterprise Strategy Group, 63% of workers have reported using the same password for multiple work devices and/or applications. This just one statistic from ESG's upcoming ...
The U.S. Justice and Treasury departments took action Thursday against a Russian hacking group known as “Evil Corp.,” which stole “at least” $100 million from banks using phishing attacks ...
Zak Doffman posted: "Iran’s state-sponsored hackers have deployed a new strain of malicious malware, warns IBM, which has been aimed at the “industrial and energy sectors” in the Middle ...
Frequent data breaches and the widespread availability of automated tools to take advantage of the compromised information have greatly increased the efficiency of credential stuffing ...
Endpoint security, firewalls, VPNs, authentication systems… we’ve all got them. But do they really provide the comprehensive level of security your organization needs to keep the bad guys ...
A new report from Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) breaks down how targeted phishing attacks are being done, and how to avoid becoming a victim.
New data from email security vendor Agari shows Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks shifting tactics last quarter, in favor of scams resulting in larger payouts.
The use of impersonating a person or brand as part of an attack in on the rise, giving attackers the upper hand, establishing instant credibility and lowering the defenses of the ...
BleepingComputer warns that a fake Steam skin giveaway site is stealing users’ Steam credentials. The site appears to be running a 26-day promotion giving away free skins for ...
Frank Ready at LAW.COM wrote this very clear article with great budget ammo. I suggest you forward the link at the bottom to your Legal team, with a cc to your C-level executive who own ...
Researchers discovered an unprotected TrueDialog database hosted by Microsoft Azure with diverse and business-related data from tens of millions of users.
A Netflix phishing scam is going after users’ payment information and Netflix credentials, according to Naked Security. The phishing emails inform recipients that they’ve missed a payment ...
A pervasive ransomware infection cost the German automation company Pilz an estimated tens of millions of euros, says Jan Tournois, director of the Dutch department of the multinational.
It may be easier than one thinks to register a dot-gov domain, according to KrebsOnSecurity. People have tended to regard urls with the top-level domain dot gov as generally reliable, but ...
This lucrative business of tricking companies into fraudulently transferring funds into cybercriminal-owned bank accounts is showing signs of growing. Scammers use many forms of attack to ...
Global industrial organizations are seeing and feeling the effects of cyberattacks, recognizing the material impact potential upon operations.