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Scam Of The Week #1: Death In The Family Cybercrime is innovating on a known and disgusting scam; preying on people that have recently suffered a loss. Used to be that old time scam ...
In a new report, Hacking the Human OS, McAfee (owned by Intel) security researchers Raj Samani and Charles McFarland found that, increasingly, hackers are using social engineering ...
Cybercrime is innovating on a known and disgusting scam; preying on people that have recently suffered a loss. Used to be that old time scam artists read the obituary notices in the ...
This morning, Feb 20, 2015 at 8am at the house I received a robo-call in a female voice that said the following:
Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. The results show how cybercrime has shifted its focus to payment ...
Chinese Phish All Identities of NSA, CIA, FBI and more... For a day or so I was puzzled that the Anthem hack trail led to China. This would normally be a Russian operation. Then an ...
Reuters just broke news that's pretty astounding. I\m copying just a few paragraphs and I recommend you read the release yourself.
As promised, here is more data about the Carbanak cyberheist in addition to the original post First of all, a map that shows the IP addresses of the institutions that were hit. Kaspersky ...
Pierluigi Paganini blogged about a recent study published by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs which reported that 16 million devices worldwide have been infected by mobile malware.
More than 100 financial institutions in 30 countries have been the victim of a cyberheist that lasted in some cases almost 2 years. This was not a smash-and-grab but a highly ...
We are excited to announce Version 4.0 of the KnowBe4 console with some exciting new phishing features! Here are the two main highlights and the rest of the list is below. - Random ...
The foreign hackers who stole up to 80 million records from Anthem social engineered their way into the company's network by obtaining the credentials of five tech workers. Thomas Miller, ...
The traditional malicious software detection approach is far from being sufficient, especially in corporate environments. More and more it's found that antivirus products can take months ...
The massive success of CryptoLocker starting September 2013 has spawned a number of rapidly growing ransomware families. More recent versions of this malware have learned a number of ...
Last updated 2/12/2015 - The foreign hackers who stole up to 80 million records from Anthem social engineered their way into the company's network by obtaining the credentials of five ...
An interesting new wrinkle in phishing attacks is in the wild as we speak. A system administrator reported the following on the spiceworks forum:
I mentioned a few months ago that I expected something like this, but it has materialized faster than I expected. Trend Micro researchers discovered a new version of the Dyre banking ...
New Ransomware Strain Encrypts Files From RAM / Scam Of The Week Security researchers at venture-backed Invincea have discovered a new Russian ransomware strain they called "Fessleak". It ...
Corporate cybercrime on an international scale has hit one of Omaha’s biggest and oldest companies. CEO Chuck Elsea's email address was spoofed and this cost them millions because their ...