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New QuickBooks-Themed Phishing Attack Seeks to Infect Victims with Dridex Malware

Purporting to be invoices and payment reminders, this new campaign targets users of the popular accounting software to install the banking trojan on its victims endpoints.

Email-Based Threats Increase 64% as Attacks Grow in Sophistication and Volume

New data from Mimecast shows how email-based threats are not only the greatest perceived concern, but are proving to be the reason for increased experienced attacks.

Phishing Scammers Remove ‘External Sender’ Email Warnings Impersonating Internal Users

With little more than some CSS and HTML coding, a security researcher demonstrates how easy it is to eliminate security warnings placed on email messages by security products.

Your Organization Needs to Take Security Awareness Training More Seriously

Your organization needs to take security awareness training (SAT) more seriously. I mean truly serious, really serious, and not relegated to some quasi-, semi-serious status that the vast ...

Wine-Themed Phishing Attacks Have Turned Sour During the Pandemic

Scammers took advantage of people’s desire to order wine online during the pandemic, Decanter reports. Researchers at Recorded Future disclosed in a recent report that wine-related ...

Huge Business Email Compromise Campaign Targets More Than 120 Organizations

According to Bleeping Computer, Microsoft reported that a large business email compromise (BEC) campaign has targeted dozens of organizations. The industries targeted varied from real ...

CyberheistNews Vol 11 #18 [Heads Up] End-User Attempt to Pirate Software Leads to Ryuk Ransomware Attack

Fake Court Order Used to Take Over Domains

Motherboard reports that a scammer used a phony court order to trick a domain registrar into giving them control over a domain that posted links to dark web drug markets. The scammer then ...

[ALERT] Time to Truly Reckon with the Dark Reality of Ransomware’s Critical Costs

By now, I’m sure you’ve already been inundated with all the news about the US’s largest gasoline pipeline being shut down and restarted because of a ransomware attack. As reported by the ...

Student’s Attempt to Pirate Software Leads to Ryuk Ransomware Attack

Bleeping Computer recently reported that a student attempted to pirate expensive data visualization software, which resulted in a Ryuk ransomware attack.