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Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly reported: "Lateral phishing is a growing type of account takeover that has enabled attackers to target more than 100,000 people by hijacking just 154 ...
New data compiled by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) shows that illegal transactions linked to business email compromise (BEC)—aka CEO Fraud— scams averaged $300 million ...
CBInsights wrote: "Cybersecurity unicorns (*) are being minted at a faster rate than ever before, and $1B+ valuations are coming through even larger funding rounds. Private companies are ...
In an article about cyber security related to voting machines, an interesting snippet of information surfaced: “Microsoft said it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year ...
SANS Security Awareness, a division of SANS Institute, announced they have released their new 2019 Security Awareness Report. In its fifth consecutive year, this very useful annual report ...
One in every 99 work emails is a phishing attack, according to a recent Avanan report. With employees accustomed to a busy inbox, it's easy to fall victim to a phishing attack disguising ...
In early April, the Mimecast Threat Center team discovered a rare type of server-parsed HTML (SHTML) based phishing attack emerging from the UK.
Dubbed the “Cloud Hopper” campaign, victim companies such as Ericsson, HPE, IBM, and more were targets of exfiltration aimed and helping advance the Chinese economy.
A new set of tweets from Microsoft Security Intelligence walks through an attack that uses a number of built-in Windows toolsets to infect machines with the notorious malware.
The need for reputable hosting services to make phishing scams involving malicious files look legitimate has caused a rise in popularity for Microsoft’s cloud-based file sharing service.
Larry at Bleepingcomputer wrote: "The data breach monitoring service Haveibeenpwned.com has added a database dump of almost 101 million Evite users who had their information exposed when ...
Phil Muncaster at InfoSec Mag reported that "Cybersecurity incidents have cost UK mid-market firms a combined £30bn over the past year as automated attacks become the norm, according to ...
Brian Krebs wrote: "The cybercriminals behind the GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering recently announced they were closing up shop and retiring after having allegedly earned ...
As part of his SANS Technology Institute Master's degree, Geoffrey Parker recently published a whitepaper called Automating Response to Phish Reporting that got an A, was made a gold ...
Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day 2019 will begin at 12 a.m. PT on Monday, July 15 and conclude at 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 16.
Endgadged reported that "TrickBot malware may recently have stolen as many as 250 million email accounts, including some belonging to governments in the US, UK and Canada. The malware ...
ITPro Today reported: "The eCh0raix ransomware uses a brute-force credential attack to gain access to data stored in QNAP NAS devices.
The debate over whether to pay or not to pay the ransom once your system is encrypted is heating up. Yesterday, the US Conference of Mayors approved a resolution coming down in favor of ...
