Cybercrime could cost companies trillions over the next five years

Jan 21, 2019 10:26:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new report (PDF) by Accenture indicates that over the next 5 years, cyberattacks could result in global costs totaling $5.2 trillion.

Children’s Full Personal Data and SSNs Are Being Sold on the Dark Web

Dec 21, 2018 11:46:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New Deloitte Threat Study Shows The Fantastic ROI of Cyber Crime Operations

Dec 19, 2018 9:49:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Deloitte estimates that some common criminal businesses can be operated for as little as $34 month and could return $25,000, while others may routinely require nearly $3,800 a month and ...

SEO Poisoning + Midterm Elections = Cybercriminals Paradise

Nov 5, 2018 9:59:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Compromised websites focused on tomorrow’s midterm elections serve as the hunting ground for cybercriminals looking to take advantage of unsuspecting visitors.

Well-Known Cybercrime Group Continues Attacks on Banks

Sep 4, 2018 3:07:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The notorious criminal group Cobalt—aka Carnanak—impersonates vendors or partners to gain access to bank networks, with each successful attack taking in as much as €10 Million.

Think Size Matters to Hackers? It Doesn’t

Aug 30, 2018 11:02:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The largest of organizations aren’t the only ones being hit with cyberattacks. Everyone from the SMB on up is at risk and is actively a target.

[INFOGRAPHIC] Cybercrime Pulls In A Million Bucks A Minute

Aug 25, 2018 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than a million dollars is lost every minute to cybercrime. That staggering stat comes to us by way of RiskIQ who published new research showing that despite businesses spending ...

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of Agile Development

Aug 24, 2018 1:02:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys have long benefited from vulnerabilities in any part of an OS or application. Now they’re going a bit deeper and looking for ways to benefit from development cycles.

Tech Support Scammers Increase Success with Call Optimization

Aug 13, 2018 11:51:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Like legitimate call centers, tech support divisions, and organizations with inbound calling, scammers are using call optimization to improve callback success rates in tech support scams.

The FBI recently published its 2017 Cybercrime Report highlighting trends and statistics

Jun 24, 2018 9:29:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI recently published its 2017 Internet Crime Report highlighting trends and statistics compiled by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) during 2017. The report compiles ...

Banking Still a Major Target of Cybercrime

Jun 20, 2018 11:45:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

1950’s bank robber Willie Sutton was once—erroneously—quoted as saying “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” Sutton never said it, a reporter made up the quote. However, cyber ...

Leader of Carbanak Cybercrime Group Who Stole Over 1Billion Arrested in Spain [InfoGraphic]

Mar 27, 2018 2:12:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

March 26, 2018 -- Some good news for a change! Police in Spain have arrested an individual identified as Denis K. who is believed to be the mastermind behind the Carbanak (also known as ...

Chinese Cybercrime Develops Lucrative Hacking Services

Jan 2, 2018 4:55:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The McAfee blog gave an interesting perspective on an area we do not look at too closely normally. Underground cybercrime profits in China have likely already exceeded US$15.1 billion ...

Lower Cybercrime Costs! Attack Humans...

Oct 20, 2017 2:28:34 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This could be a headline on a dark web site for cyber criminals. And it would be correct. Our colleagues at Wombat did some digging and came up with relevant research you should know ...

The Hackers Smell Blood Now, Not Silicon

Jul 15, 2017 5:51:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Morgan wrote an excellent post with the Top 5 cybersecurity facts, figures and statistics for 2017 at the CSO site. These predictions and observations provide a 30,000-foot view of ...

Two New Cybercrime-as-a-Service Platforms Discovered

Jul 15, 2017 9:13:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a rising trend of cybercrime sites for wannabe "crims" that make malicious hacking a point-and-click exercise. A new report describes two more sites that were discovered by ...

Vladimir Putin Approves Of Patriotic Russian Hackers

Jun 2, 2017 7:28:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The WSJ just posted a very interesting article by Nathan Hodge confirming what we have been saying here for the last few years. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in St Petersburg ...

Shadow Brokers Offer New SaaS 0-Day Threat Subscription Model

May 16, 2017 4:13:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The mysterious Shadow Brokers – the hackers who leaked the NSA SMB zero-day exploit that powered WanaCry into the world's worst ransomworm – are back, and could cause even more damage. ...

NIST Releases Update to Cybersecurity Framework

Apr 22, 2017 10:54:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a draft update (PDF) to the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity—also known as the ...

Chinese Hackers Use Fake Cellphone Tower to Spread Android Banking Trojan

Mar 25, 2017 5:29:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check Point Software blogged about Chinese hackers who have taken smishing to the next level, using a rogue cell phone tower to distribute Android banking malware via spoofed SMS messages.

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Cybercrime could cost companies trillions over the next five years

Children’s Full Personal Data and SSNs Are Being Sold on the Dark Web

New Deloitte Threat Study Shows The Fantastic ROI of Cyber Crime Operations

SEO Poisoning + Midterm Elections = Cybercriminals Paradise

Well-Known Cybercrime Group Continues Attacks on Banks

Think Size Matters to Hackers? It Doesn’t

[INFOGRAPHIC] Cybercrime Pulls In A Million Bucks A Minute

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of Agile Development

Tech Support Scammers Increase Success with Call Optimization

The FBI recently published its 2017 Cybercrime Report highlighting trends and statistics

Banking Still a Major Target of Cybercrime

Leader of Carbanak Cybercrime Group Who Stole Over 1Billion Arrested in Spain [InfoGraphic]

Chinese Cybercrime Develops Lucrative Hacking Services

Lower Cybercrime Costs! Attack Humans...

The Hackers Smell Blood Now, Not Silicon

Two New Cybercrime-as-a-Service Platforms Discovered

Vladimir Putin Approves Of Patriotic Russian Hackers

Shadow Brokers Offer New SaaS 0-Day Threat Subscription Model

NIST Releases Update to Cybersecurity Framework

Chinese Hackers Use Fake Cellphone Tower to Spread Android Banking Trojan

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