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New Sophisticated “Exaggerated Lion” BEC Check Scam Uses Mules to Cash Out

You may wonder exactly how BEC scammers see a payday. New insight from security vendor Agari documents how a secondary check scam dupes unsuspecting victims to help.

Racoon: Infostealer Malware Collects Credentials, Financial and Personal Information

Access to a compromised endpoint may no longer be enough. So, enterprising malware authors offer up infostealers to help exfiltrate valuable data from an infected machine.

None But the Lonely Heart Would Fall for an Emoji

Researchers at Malwarebytes and X-Force IRIS have come across an ongoing phishing campaign that’s using romance-themed emails to distribute the Nemty ransomware, BleepingComputer reports. ...

Experts: Expect Summer Olympics-Themed Cyberattacks in the Coming Months

The business of the games will provide cybercriminals with countless options to scam participants, sponsors, and spectators using contextual details and social engineering.

Ransomware Attack On Wool Industry Halted Sales Across Australia Last Week

It is yet to be seen how a cyber attack which shut down wool sales last week will affect growers in Tasmania. Last Tuesday Talman Software, which is used by the majority of wool industry ...

Bogus Singapore Police Site Serves as a Watering Hole

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) released an advisory warning about a phishing site that’s spoofing the Force’s website, Channel News Asia reports. The bogus website informs the user that ...

Nigerian Man Arrested 3 Years After $850,000 Stolen in Email Scam

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says a Nigerian man has been arrested more than three years after $850,000 was stolen in construction bond money from the Boulder Valley School ...

Afraid You're Communicating Too Frequently? Rethink That.

This blog was co-written by Joanna Huismann and Aimee Laycock. Communication is not always easy (let’s be honest, we have all wanted to scream with frustration at our partner or a family ...

Guess Who Else is Now Doing Security Training Surveys?

A few months ago, KnowBe4 began offering customers two new kinds of scientifically-based assessments to help IT departments get a better handle on the internal security culture within ...

Amazon Prime Phishbait: Lessons Learned

An Amazon phishing campaign is accidentally sending out links that lead straight to the attacker’s remote access console, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. Ducklin explains ...