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U.S. State Department Issues a Reward for Information on Foreign Cybercriminals Targeting Critical Infrastructure

In the wake of cyberattacks targeting U.S. infrastructure organizations, the U.S. government is stepping up measures to identify foreign threat actors and bring them to justice.

Updated Ransomware Simulator Now With 23 Latest Infection Scenarios

As ransomware techniques continue to evolve, two new ransomware strains, DearCry and Black Kingdom, were blamed for the huge Microsoft Exchange server attacks earlier this year, which ...

Microsoft Takes Down Homoglyph Domains

Microsoft has taken legal action to shut down eighteen domains that were being used in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The sites in question used homoglyphs to impersonate ...

[HEADS UP] 2021 Tokyo Olympics Mean Olympic-Themed Phishing Attacks

Last year, we reported that authorities warned of the Tokyo Olympics phishing attacks. Then the global pandemic occurred, and the games were postponed. Well, now the games have ...

Mint Mobile, Porting Numbers, and Identity Theft

US telecommunications company Mint Mobile warned some users that their phone numbers had temporarily been ported to another carrier by an unauthorized individual, which allowed the ...

Microsoft Continues to be the Top Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks

New data from CheckPoint identifies those brands being used by threat actors to trick victims into opening attachments, clicking links, providing credentials, and giving up personal ...

The Cost and Impact of Cybercrime Can Now Be Measured in a Single Minute

With the number of threat actors growing rapidly, along with an increased frequency of attacks, RiskIQ has put together a sobering perspective of how cybercrime impacts us in just 60 ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] New Report Shows Users Are Falling for Security and HR-Related Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. These are broken down into three different categories: social media related subjects, general subjects, ...

New LuminousMoth APT Takes a Double-Infection Vector Approach to Attacks

Spotted by security researchers at Kaspersky Labs, this large-scale yet extremely targeted campaign of attacks focuses on government organizations within Southeast Asia.