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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 ...
Scammers have been exploiting people’s fears by posing as HR employees and sending emails informing recipients that they’ve been laid off, according to Kaspersky’s spam and phishing ...
I saw this post on twitter with a fun and educational infographic that shows it's quite a complicated affair where lots of things can go wrong. Here is the infographic, and if you click ...
A new alert from CISA outlines just how dangerous and intrusive the KONNI malware is in organizations that fall for phishing attacks using Word attachments with malicious VBA code.
Disinformation is a potent weapon in the current cold cyberwar arsenal. DisInfo attacks are skyrocketing and the number of countries using organized social media manipulation is going up ...
Dozens of banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and web hosting firms have experienced vishing attacks aimed at eventually stealing cryptocurrency from high net-worth customers.
