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October 2, 2020 Eric Howes

Malicious Actors Crash U.S. Election: Spoofed Emails Attempt to Gather U.S. Voter Registration Data

Unless you recently beamed down from Mars, you are undoubtedly aware that election season is upon us in the United States. Indeed, the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is currently ...

October 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Newly Relaunched ProLock Ransomware Seeks Ransoms as High as $3 Million

Seeing successful attacks as frequently as one per day, the creators of ProLock seek out larger organizations using the QBot trojan to infiltrate, spread throughout, and infect a network.

October 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Global Ransomware Attacks Increase by 715 Percent as Cybercriminals Capitalize on the Pandemic Opportunity

The massive rise in frequency is a signal that cybercriminals are not only finding their ransomware campaigns successful, but are also seeing increases in ransom amounts.

October 2, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Two Men Charged in a Case of Phishing NFL and NBA Players

The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...

October 1, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Don't Just Catch a Phish, Captcha One

Researchers at Menlo Security have identified a phishing site that uses three layers of visual captchas to evade detection by automated security crawlers. Captchas are brief tests on ...

September 30, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

[CRITICAL] 250,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are Unpatched and Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks!

With an estimated 61% of Exchange servers in the wild still operating unpatched, this security flaw allows attackers to take over a vulnerable server using any set of valid email ...

September 30, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads Up] This Ingenious Worm Phishing Campaign Is A Game-Changer In Password Theft And Account Takeovers

A few days ago in a Medium blog post, Craig Hays, a cybersecurity architect and bug bounty hunter described a recent phishing new type of attempt which turned out to become "the greatest ...

September 30, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attacks Continue to Grow More Sophisticated

Both criminal and nation-state threat actors have “rapidly increased in sophistication” over the past twelve months, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report. Microsoft found that ...

September 29, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

What’s the Information Stolen in a Phishing Attack Really Worth?

Once a scammer tricks their victim out of web credentials, credit card details, or online access to a bank account, the details collected are worth plenty by simply selling them on the ...

September 29, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Spike in Emotet Attacks Against Government Agencies Seen Around the Globe in September

Attacks involving what is arguably the world’s most dangerous malware are on the rise, with reports from the cybersecurity agencies in Japan, New Zealand, and France.

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