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New QR Code Phishing Campaign is Impersonating the Chinese Ministry of Finance

Researchers at Fortinet warn that a phishing campaign is impersonating the Chinese Ministry of Finance. The phishing emails contain a document with a QR code that leads to a ...

Cybercrime The World’s Third Largest Economy After the U.S. and China

Cybersecurity Ventures released a new report that showed cybercrime is going to cost the world $8 trillion USD in 2023.

Ransomware Has SMBs Reprioritizing Their Cybersecurity Spending to Combat Attacks

New data shows that SMBs can clearly see where they have cybersecurity issues and are taking great strides to put their devoted budget to security technology and services that actually ...

The Current State of Cybersecurity Should Fear AI Tools Like ChatGPT

Malicious use of the text-based AI has already begun to be seen in the wild, and speculative ways attackers can use ChatGPT may spell temporary doom for cybersecurity solutions.

Unusual Blank-Image Phishing Attacks Impersonate DocuSign

An unusual phishing technique has surfaced this week. Avanan, a Check Point Software company, released a blog Thursday morning detailing a new attack in which hackers hide malicious ...

[Eye Popper] Ransomware Victims Refused To Pay Last Year

Finally some good news from the ransomware front! Despite bad actors launching a number of ransomware campaigns throughout 2022, organizations refused to submit and paid criminals an ...

How South Africa's Largest Law Firm Was Fined R5.5m for Not Educating Customers

Africa’s largest law firmordered to pay R5.5 million to a woman who fell victim to a hacking syndicate. When Judith Hawarden was buying a house, hackers changed the bank account number in ...

Phishing For Industrial Control Systems

Mandiant has published a report describing phishing emails that have breached organizations in the industrial sector. Mandiant explains that the majority of phishing attacks are ...

The Amazing Thing Is that DHL Phishing Campaigns STILL Work

Researchers at Armorblox warn that a phishing campaign is impersonating DHL with fake shipping invoices.