Global spending on security hardware, software and services will top $103 billion in 2019, up 9.4 percent from 2018, with large enterprises spending the most, according to IDC data.
Two defense contractors and a university lost approximately $170,000 from business email compromise (BEC) scams last year, according to an FBI advisory obtained by CyberScoop. The ...
New research from ISACA and Terranova Security found that just 12% of security, assurance, risk and governance professionals are confident in their ability to assess the effectiveness of ...
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlights how vulnerable the healthcare sector is to phishing attacks, according to Jessica Davis at Health ...
A new phishing campaign is spreading malware through emails that claim to have Bitcoin investment updates, according to My Online Security. The emails direct the victim to download an ...
Norsk Hydro ASA, one of the world’s biggest aluminum producers, suffered production outages after a ransomware attack affected operations across Europe and the U.S.
We’re excited to announce the world premiere of an innovative new security awareness video series for our customers called ‘The Inside Man’. In KnowBe4’s new 12-episode video series, a ...
Mass automated attacks using stolen credentials are on the rise, according to Akamai’s 2019 State of the Internet / Retail Attacks and API Traffic report, putting consumers and retailers ...
Large airline crashes tend to uniquely focus almost everyone's attention. Lowlife internet criminals are exploiting the fear connected to these incidents, and leverage it in phishing ...
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 ...
