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Google: Our hunt for hackers reveals phishing is far deadlier than data breaches

The study finds that victims of phishing are 400 times more likely to have their account hijacked than a random Google user, a figure that falls to 10 times for victims of a data breach. ...

Spy Vs. Spy? WikiLeaks Says CIA Impersonated Kaspersky Lab

Wow, the plot thickens. Attribution indeed is a very murky business. According to WikiLeaks, its analysis revealed that by using these fake certificates, the CIA made it look like data ...

Ordinypt Ransomware Intentionally Destroys Files, Currently Targeting Germany

A new ransomware strain called Ordinypt is currently targeting victims in Germany, but instead of encrypting users' documents, the ransomware rewrites files with random data. Discovered ...

NATO to Increase Cyber Weaponry to Combat Russia

NATO members agreed Wednesday to increase the use of cyber weaponry and tactics during military operations, with the alliance also upgrading other capabilities to combat a resurgent ...

[On-Demand Webinar] Phishing and Social Engineering in 2018

Ransomware has tipped the 1 billion mark and damages are expected to be around 5 billion before the year is out. Use of ransomware has evolved throughout the year with a 600% rise in URL ...

Scam Of The Week: Massive Netflix Phishing Campaign

There is a massive scam campaign going on, this time a very well executed Netflix phishing attack. The scam targets subscribers telling them that their account is about to be canceled. ...

Bad Rabbit Ransomware Attack Was Hiding A Spear Phishing Campaign

During the attacks in eastern Europe with the Bad Rabbit ransomware, a more insidious attack was taking place in Ukraine under its cover, Reuters reported. Serhiy Demedyuk, head of the ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #43 EU to Declare Cyber-Attacks “Act of War” - USA Likely to Follow

Dark Overlord hackers reveal plans to leak 'Hollywood database stolen from top studio'

Criminal hacking group The Dark Overlord is threatening to leak the internal client data of top Hollywood production studio Line 204, IBTimes UK has learned. The seemingly international ...

How to sell cybersecurity to your executive team

Scott Schlimmer wrote a great post at CSO about the constant battle between profitable business investments and “unprofitable” security investments to protect the current bottom-line.