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Phishing Scam Of The Week: You Are Summoned To Court

The AppRiver team dsicovered an increase in phishing scams containing the Zortob Trojan. The new surge uses an existing successful scam, which warns the victim that they've been ordered ...
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New KnowBe4 Survey Shows IT Pros Concern About Ransomware Skyrocketing

Security Awareness Training and Backup Voted Most Effective Solutions to Combat CryptoLocker
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PLEASE WHITELIST OUR NEW EMAIL SERVERS

First week of July we will cut over to a new mailserver, which allows us to use different "hover-domains" (meaning a user sees something else than the domain we used as the default up to ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 25 CellphonePhishingHackPullsDatafromComputer

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 25
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Stand-alone CryptoLocker Variant Found

It looks like the Russian evil genius behind Cryptolocker, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, has not been sitting still since the recent international law enforcement "Operation Tovar" which ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 24 Friday the 13th Crypto Horror Story

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 24
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New Cellphone Phishing Hack Pulls Data Out Of Computer Over Air

This is from a few weeks ago, and I only just got to it. Hackers can exfiltrate data via a cellphone and no longer need the Internet to invade and control a system, Ben Gurion University ...
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Can You Fix A Human Problem With A Technology Solution?

Let me be clear from the get-go: maybe partially but never 100%. Hundreds of IT security companies have tried and failed, just look at the malware infections you are battling regularly. ...
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$440,000 Cyberheist Victim Now Needs To Pay Bank's Legal Fees

Talk about adding insult to injury. Brian Krebs has the update, he's been reporting on the legal gray area when cyber mafia steals hundreds of thousands out of a company's bank account. ...
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Phishing Scam Of The Week: Free World Cup Trip To Brazil

The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of ...
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Finally Some Good News iPhone Ransomware Gang Busted

Finally some good news for a change. John Zorabedian at Sophos reported the following.
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CryptoLocker Clone Serves Up Energy Bill Spam Campaign

And here's another ransomware wannabe that has ripped off the CryptoLocker brand but is something totally different. A recent spam campaign sending out emails masquerading as an ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 23 CryptoWall Comes With Nasty Twist

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 23
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New Ransomware CryptoWall Comes With A Twist

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We’ll Pay Your Crypto-Ransom If You Get Hit With Ransomware

We’ll Pay Your Crypto-Ransom If You Get Hit
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 22 Ransomware Holds iPhones and iPads Hostage

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 22
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Malware creation breaks all records! 160,000 new samples every day

Helpnet Security reported: Malware creation has broken all records during this period, with a figure of more than 15 million new samples, and more than 160,000 new samples appearing every ...
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New Ransomware Holds iPhones and iPads Hostage

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That ransomware payment is coming out of your allowance

Cartoon: Parenting is very different in 2014 compared to 1989! "That ransomware payment is coming out of your allowance."
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 21 Make The Bad Guys Pay!

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 21
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