Amil Hassan Raage has taken a guilty plea to charges of fraud in a business email compromise (aka CEO fraud) case that netted him and his criminal co-conspirators almost three-quarters of ...
CyberheistNews Vol 9 #32 Scam of the Week: Equifax Settlement Phishing Well, that did not take long! The Equifax Data Breach resulted in a settlement and those affected have a choice ...
We are excited to announce the availability of PhishML™ as part of the PhishER platform to all PhishER customers. PhishML is a new machine-learning module that helps you identify and ...
Chris Matyszczyk wrote: "Apple sends me so many invoices every week that I scarcely know what I've gone and bought. This appears to have also crossed the minds of researchers at the UK's ...
School districts are becoming increasingly popular targets for ransomware, with at least five of these attacks occurring in July, according to the New York Times.
Having been inside the AntiVirus software industry for quite a while, and building an AV tool from the ground up, when I saw Redmond start acquiring several small AV companies in 2008 and ...
For the past week, a new ransomware strain has been wreaking havoc across Germany. Named GermanWiper, this ransomware doesn't encrypt files but instead it rewrites their content with ...
Researchers at Proofpoint have observed a state-sponsored spearphishing campaign targeting three US utilities companies. The emails convincingly posed as exam results from the National ...
On this week’s episode of the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan discussed a story written by two lawyers for Church Law & Tax that warns of a type of ...
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has warned that multiple Australian IT suppliers have permanently closed their doors after falling victim to procurement scams, CRN reports. ...
Well, that did not take long! The Equifax Data Breach resulted in a settlement and those affected have a choice between free credit monitoring or a $125 payment.
Scammers are impersonating Facebook to trick potential buyers of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency into parting with their money.
Reporters investigating Russian military intelligence have been targeted by highly sophisticated cyber attacks through their encrypted email accounts, with evidence suggesting Moscow was ...
The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned of another email scam that impersonated a real law firm in order to hijack a real estate transaction, according to Martin Parrin ...
By Lecio De Paula, KnowBe4's Director of Data Privacy. On July 24, 2019, it was announced that Facebook, Inc. will pay a 5 billion dollar penalty to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...
Capital One has announced a data breach that has exposed the personal information of 106 million people that includes transaction data, credit scores, payment history, balances, and for ...
The destructive email worm MyDoom is still very active more than fifteen years after it was first spotted, according to ZDNet. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 observed 663,000 ...
A new Android ransomware strain was discovered by ESET researchers. It uses the victim's contact list to spread further using SMS messages that have malicious links.
Using a mix of fake admin alerts and a spoofed logon page, this newest campaign leverages IT’s urgency in fixing critical issues before they impact users.
