Each week the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast looks behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that make headlines and take a heavy toll on ...
Bleepingcomputer reported this week: "A new sextortion email campaign is underway that states a hacker infected the recipient's computer while they were visiting an adult web site. The ...
Three Romanian citizens have pleaded guilty to carrying out a scheme that used recorded messages and cellphone texts to trick thousands of people into revealing their social security ...
Encryption has become the norm for many cybercriminals looking to obfuscate all parts of an attack, according to Zscaler’s 2019 Cloud Security Insights Threat Report. One of the goals of ...
Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report highlights the trends seen in 2018 with phishing as the preferred attack method and supply chains as a primary attack target.
Hackers have used ransomware to encrypt files at a school, causing it to lose some students' GCSE coursework.
Targeted attacks are increasing, with cybercriminals focused on stealing information that can be used to impersonate a user and perpetuate their scams.
Ransomware isn’t going anywhere, and cybercriminals are stepping up their game increasing payments while also targeting backups more often to improve their chances of payment.
Facts are facts… but what happens when IT security pros take myths at face value? That got us thinking… what if we whip out our magnifying glasses, pull out the trench coats and use our ...
Since the days of EternalBlue, we’ve been concerned with malware spreading within a network. The latest iterations of Matrix Ransomware use a sophisticated list of embedded tools to do ...
Passwords serve as the foundation for most security today. But security vendor SpyCloud have recovered over 3.5 billion credentials, demonstrating just how insecure they really are.
Holy Smokes! Ransomware may be poised to return as a top scourge for companies, as more and more of them pay up—it's actually their insurance company that makes the payment—after an ...
In the summer of 2017, a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia experienced a worrisome security incident that cybersecurity experts consider to be the first-ever cyber attack carried out ...
Anyone who depends upon good public opinion can be vulnerable to orchestrated bad word-of-mouth, especially in the form of online reviews.
KnowBe4 was at RSA 2019 this year with two booths, in both the North and South Hall. The show was humongous as usual and a torrent of news was released. I was there and it was a challenge ...
Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, paid $400,000 to cyber-criminals this week to get rid of a ransomware infection and regain access to their IT systems. The County hired ...
I'm suffering from Data Breach Fatigue, how about you?
New details from international security company Group-IB show how cybercriminals are no longer looking to just steal from one bank. Instead they chain their attacks to improve their ...
Recent data from Check Point Security’s Cyber Talk shows organizations are massively unprepared for attacks on network, mobile, and physical security.
