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The latest method of attack uses sender familiarity to lower victim defenses and increase the potential for scams, attacks, or fraud to succeed.
The decade-old malware traditionally used to capture banking details has been given new life and spotted in the wild, being distributed via malicious Word documents.
Attackers are going after cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) providers in order to launch unusually convincing phishing campaigns, KrebsOnSecurity reports.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity targeting Hurricane Dorian disaster victims and potential ...
Trend Micro researchers have published details about a sophisticated phishing campaign they’ve named “Heatstroke.” The attackers behind Heatstroke go after victims’ private email ...
CEO Fraud—also known as Business Email Compromise—related cyber-insurance claims accounted for nearly a quarter of all claims in the EMEA region, AIG said.
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the past week we spotted something new and interesting in the malicious emails being reported to us by customers using the Phish ...
We’ve noted this particular scam before, but it’s continued to make a pest of itself, and so we bring it to your attention again. Scammers are abusing Google Calendar invites to send out ...
Aubrey Wieber at the DemocratHerald reported: "A phishing scheme succeeded in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information ...
Catherine Stupp at the Wall Street Journal reported on something we have predicted would happen in this blog. The article started out with:
Last year California passed a new law, similar to GDPR, called the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018. This law is to be implemented on January 1, 2020. Any company doing ...
McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 2019, and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code.
Hundreds of dental practice offices in the US have had their computers infected with ransomware this week, ZDNet has learned from a source.
This week, ProPublica published a report describing how insurance companies now prefer to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars / pounds / Euros in ransom to minimize the detriment ...
More than 1900 new potential bank phishing sites were registered in the first half of 2019, according to researchers at NormShield. Based on the increase in new suspicious domains ...
The latest data from Malwarebyte’s report Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques: Ransomware Retrospective shows businesses are at risk of ransomware attack now more than ever.
A new version of MegaCortex has been spotted, upgrading it from a manual, targeted form of ransomware, to one that can be spread and do damage enterprise-wide.
Back in June, we discussed Vade Secure’s “Phisher’s Favorite” report for Q1 2019, which found that Microsoft had been the most impersonated brand used in phishing attacks for four ...
A lowlife Colorado bail bondsman named Matthew Marre repeatedly posed as a law enforcement officer to trick T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon into giving him GPS data for his targets’ phones, ...
