A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It ...
Ransomware, arguably the most efficient malware used by cybercrooks in recent years, continues to wreak havoc on a global scale, affecting everyone and everything, from regular Internet ...
While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...
A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...
Russian intelligence services sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts used by Florida election officials in November 2016, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ...
The latest data from Coveware shows increases across the board in ransoms, downtime, and average cost of an attack, mostly due to the increased use of the Ryuk ransomware variant.
Despite maintaining an improved security posture over last year, 2019 brings additional attacks with a higher price tag, causing the U.K. government to urge organizations to do more.
Ohio joins South Carolina and Michigan to create cybersecurity legislation modeled after the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law.
The beginning of 2019 has proven that data breaches in the health industry aren’t going anywhere. And from the intel on the breaches, phishing is playing a predominant role.
Varonis spent a lot of time compiling a whole bunch of data breach stats that are very good ammo for budget requests. They also created an infographic with a quick executive summary. Did ...
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With the Game of Thrones (GoT) Season 8 finally airing, bad guys are using a variety of social engineering tactics to trick your end-users.
Alyssa Foote at WIRED wrote: "NEARLY THREE YEARS after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA's hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open ...
Armor, a leading global cloud security solutions provider, read the news about a recent cyberattack, where hackers targeted the payroll department of the city of Tallahassee, FL and ...
The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned that scammers are impersonating a London law firm, Linklaters LLP, using phony job offers. The documents purport to come from the ...
U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of millions of incidents analyzed during the last year by ...
A ransomware attack against Genesee County, Michigan, was more extensive than county officials originally thought, SC Magazine says. The county’s systems were hit by the malware on ...
Banking malware is being installed on Android devices via malicious links in SMS messages, CRN reports. Cisco Talos discovered the malware being advertised on an exploit forum, and found ...
Stratford city hall was the target of an apparent cyber-attack, but officials do not believe personal information was compromised.
