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Have you ever wanted to pick the brain of one of the most prolific IT security experts? Now is your chance! In our “Ask Me Anything” session with Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense ...
Email rules have been used maliciously for decades. Learn about email rules and what you need to do to defend your organization against their malicious misuse.
Researchers at WhiteOps warn that a family of malicious Android apps are spreading a new ad-fraud botnet by promising free shoes and other products to users who install the apps. The ...
Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging Active Directory to spread malware and even hold the organization for ransom. New data suggests you’re nowhere near ready for it.
Apparently focused on more intelligence gathering than taking direct malicious action against the organizations they compromise, this attack is filled with ingenuity.
Here are a few important feature and fresh content updates to share with you for the month of August.
Business email compromise attacks—aka CEO Fraud— have taken shape this year, and according to Agari wire transfer losses have significantly increased by 48% in Q2 2020. The average losses ...
CyberheistNews Vol 10 #36 [FUN] What (Really) Happens When You Type in a URL in an Address Bar in a Browser? I saw this post on Twitter with a fun and educational infographic that shows ...
The FBI has warned that victims of romance scams lost $475 million in 2019, BleepingComputer reports. In Idaho alone, nearly one hundred of these victims lost more than $1 million each. ...
One of the most frequent concerns I hear from IT security practitioners and CISOs is the rise of phishing attacks coming from compromised trusted partners and contractors. The attackers ...
Slack, the ubiquitous communication and collaboration platform, has been getting more and more attention over the past few months as a potential phishing platform and target for malicious ...
Researchers at Check Point warn that the QBot banking Trojan now has the ability to hijack email threads on infected devices and send malicious emails to the victim’s contacts. The ...
New insights into the cybersecurity readiness of U.K. organizations shows cyberattacks are plentiful and costly, and there aren’t enough cybersecurity pros to help.
Yes, 940%. The demand for cybersecurity has risen so much since COVID, that the U.K. is seeing a new cybersecurity business registered every week and massive job vacancies.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is suing RI Advice Group for being hacked multiple times over a year’s time that includes 155 hours of undetected hacker ...
Having a remote workforce has been keeping organizations running, but new data puts a spotlight on the realities of what preparations were taken and whether organizations are truly secure.
What better way to gain complete control over a crypto organization’s network that to target their sysadmin with a Job Posting and then spear phish them?
Fred Lambert at Electrek just reported on a story we published Aug 26th, and he reveals who was targeted: "Tesla and the FBI worked together to prevent a group of ransomware hackers from ...
Tech support scams function like organized businesses and consist of various criminals fulfilling different roles, according to court documents obtained by ZDNet. The documents contain ...
Michael Kan at PC Mag reported: "According to the FBI, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov promised to pay as much as $1 million to the employee to help his shadowy group steal data from a ...
