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Ransomware is more prolific and expensive than ever. Depending on the source you read, the average or median ransomware payment was at least several hundred thousand dollars to well over ...
Researchers at Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) warn that Russian government threat actors continue to target NATO member countries with spear phishing attacks. APT29 in particular has ...
Recently I had to prepare for a governance, risk and compliance conference. I promptly realized that although I used to be quite immersed in this field as an ISO 27k implementation ...
Analysis of the latest phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform ONNX Store highlights just how successful these platforms can be.
Researchers at Check Point observed more than a thousand newly registered malicious or suspicious web domains related to Amazon last month. The criminals are likely gearing up to target ...
Researchers at ESET warn of phishing attacks that are attempting to hack high-profile YouTube channels in order to spread scams or malware.
I recently read a story about a South Korean telecom company that pushed out malware to over 600,000 of its customers who were using torrents to share files, in a bid to limit their ...
In an interview at the Collision technology conference in Toronto, Booking.com’s CISO sounds the alarm on what she calls “supercharged artificial intelligence (AI) scams.”
Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.
Researchers at Menlo Security discovered three state-sponsored phishing campaigns that have targeted 40,000 important individuals over the past three months. “In a recent 90-day period, ...
As social media becomes more intertwined with our daily routines, cybercriminals are using it to trick people with fake job offers. What are these social-media recruitment scams, and how ...
As popularity grows for these proven methods of weight loss, scammers have taken note and have placed a significant focus on separating victims from their money.
A new phishing campaign tries to trick email recipients into pasting and executing malicious commands on their system that installs DarkGate malware.
A few weeks ago, I was privileged to visit the 8th grade of a high-school here in Cape Town and talk to the students about cybersecurity, social media, and emerging technology. It was a ...
What likely started as a quick ransomware “smash and grab” has turned into a headline case resulting in responses from both U.K. and U.S. law enforcement.
A hacked customer support portal belonging to router manufacturer Mercku is being used to respond to customer queries with phishing emails, BleepingComputer reports.
In a world where cyber espionage has become as common as a rainy day in London, the recent events surrounding the UK armed forces' payroll database have had us all raising our eyebrows ...
Researchers at ESET warn that malvertising campaigns are impersonating AI tools to trick users into installing malware. The Rilide infostealer, for example, is being distributed via a ...
