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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 26
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 26
We surveyed over 300 system administrators regarding ransomware, here are the results:
Ever hear of CoinDesk? They are a news site about pricing and other info about digital currencies. They reported a fascinating phishing attack on a list of auction participants.
Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major cyberattack. Like PCs back in the early days -- the 1990s -- mobile phones are largely unprotected by ...
The United States continued to host the majority of phishing websites in the first quarter of 2014, but did not even crack the top 36 when it came to global computer infection rates, ...
Roger Grimes over at InfoWorld did a great write-up about the state of cyber ransom these days. He also went back in history for a while and gives the factors that have led up to the ...
The AppRiver team dsicovered an increase in phishing scams containing the Zortob Trojan. The new surge uses an existing successful scam, which warns the victim that they've been ordered ...
Security Awareness Training and Backup Voted Most Effective Solutions to Combat CryptoLocker
First week of July we will cut over to a new mailserver, which allows us to use different "hover-domains" (meaning a user sees something else than the domain we used as the default up to ...
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It looks like the Russian evil genius behind Cryptolocker, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, has not been sitting still since the recent international law enforcement "Operation Tovar" which ...
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This is from a few weeks ago, and I only just got to it. Hackers can exfiltrate data via a cellphone and no longer need the Internet to invade and control a system, Ben Gurion University ...
Let me be clear from the get-go: maybe partially but never 100%. Hundreds of IT security companies have tried and failed, just look at the malware infections you are battling regularly. ...
Talk about adding insult to injury. Brian Krebs has the update, he's been reporting on the legal gray area when cyber mafia steals hundreds of thousands out of a company's bank account. ...
The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of ...
Finally some good news for a change. John Zorabedian at Sophos reported the following.
And here's another ransomware wannabe that has ripped off the CryptoLocker brand but is something totally different. A recent spam campaign sending out emails masquerading as an ...
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