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Scam Of The Week: Phishers Target PayPal Users With Fake “Failed Transaction” Emails

Scammers are pushing out fake PayPal emails that use the premise of an unverified transaction to phish for customers’ personal and financial information. With the end-of-the-year holidays ...

Your Cybercrime Insurance Policy May Not Cover You For Social Engineering Fraud

I have talked about this potentially extremely expensive and very disappointing "CEO fraud" or "Business Email Compromise" problem many times before. Your cybercrime policy may not ...

Phishing campaigns and malware infections are both up more than 40% since Q2 ‘17

The NTT Security Global Threat Intelligence Center (GTIC) 2017 Q3 Threat Intelligence Report provides a glimpse inside the research conducted by NTT Security researchers over the last ...

Google Kicks Harmful Apps Out Of Google Play And Offers 5 Steps Against Social Engineering

You're always better off getting apps from reputable stores like Google Play than you are from potentially dodgy, at best unknown, third-party sites. But even Google Play isn't immune ...

If Willie Sutton were working today, he'd be stealing cryptocurrency, not wasting time on banks

Because that's where the money is. Criminals have been installing cryptocurrency miners on victim machines that turn them into sources of money. These operate without the users' ...

Proposed New Legislation: "Security Awareness Training For Your Users Or Go To Jail"?

OK, it may be hyberbole, but since 91% of data breaches are caused by successful spear phishing attacks, it's not entirely crazy to say: "security awareness training your users or go to ...

New CyberThreat Survey Confirms: Biggest Security Obstacle Is Low User Security Awareness

The CyberEdge Group is an award-winning research firm that serves information security vendors and service providers. They recently surveyed 1,100 qualified IT security decision makers ...

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UK Shipping firm Clarksons falls victim to hybrid ransomware / data theft extortion

Shipping company Clarksons has fallen victim to a major ransomware attack that could result in the exposure of private data, the company warned today. The statement continued: "Our ...

77% of the FTSE 100 Have Compromised Credentials - What is your Stolen-password percentage?

IT security vendor Anomali, released a new report showing the volume of stolen credentials of FTSE 100 employees tripled In 2017, and a whopping 77% of the FTSE 100 were exposed with an ...