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.
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Ray Shultz at MediaPost's EmailINSIDER wrote about a nasty new way that the bad guys are trying to establish trust: spoofing the return path and received email headers of Barracuda in an ...
The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught fire and was barely saved from total destruction. Millions of people visit every year and hundreds of millions feel a powerful, and personal, ...
Cybercriminals no longer see your organization as just their next target; they see the organization as a valuable source of intel and the launch point for their next attack. In business ...
Ransomware tops the list of attacks for insurers of the food and beverage industry. Outdated software and lax user concern for security controls provide attacker with a way in.
Inadvertent sharing, phishing attacks, and ransomware top the list of attack vectors, with teachers, students, and vendors all contributing to the risk of breach.
We’ve recently shared a link to a podcast, “The Ghost and the Mole,” which revisits the infamous case of FBI Special Agent turned Russian spy Robert Hanssen. Before dismissing this as ...
An email extortion scam is threatening victims with DDoS attacks and WannaCry ransomware, according to researchers at Avast. The scammers claim to have hacked the victim’s network and ...
Eric O’Neill is a former FBI counterintelligence and counterterrorism operative, and founder of the Georgetown Group, a security and investigative firm, as well as national security ...
(Reuters) - U.S. cybersecurity firm Cofense Inc said on Wednesday that buyout firm Pamplona Capital Management is seeking to sell its stake in the company following a year-long probe by ...
We are seeing a new type of attack popping up more and more. Bad guys send a phishing attack and steal the credentials of your employee. But they stay under the radar and lurk for a while ...
This is an excerpt from an article in SecurityWeek by Gunter Ollmann, who is currently the CSO of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI Security division. He is a seasoned information security leader.
The treasurer of the city of Ottawa, Marian Simulik, fell for a business email compromise (BEC) scam and sent $100,000 to a scammer, the city’s auditor general revealed this week. Simulik ...
Payment fraud continues to soar, as a record 82 percent of organizations reported incidents in 2018, according to the 2019 AFP Payments Fraud & Control Survey, underwritten by J.P. ...
A highly capable malware reportedly used in a failed plot to blow up a Saudi petrochemical plant has now been linked to a second compromised facility.
