Warning: Cybercriminals Target Organizations Going Through M&A Activity

Oct 13, 2021 8:52:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The changing of hands of significant amounts of money is enough reason to get the attention of cybercriminals. So, how can organizations prepare for what should be an expected series of ...

U.K. Authorized Push Payment Scams Jump 71% in First Half of 2021, Taking in £355 Million

Oct 8, 2021 9:09:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Surpassing credit card fraud in the U.K., scamming victims into sending money to a fraudulent bank account has taken the lead spot in fraud scams that could cost U.K. residents more than ...

Europol: Italian Mafia Tied to Cybercriminals Responsible for €10 Million in Cyberattacks

Sep 30, 2021 8:19:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The recent dismantling of a cybercriminal gang has uncovered ties to the Italian Mafia, demonstrating that even traditional organized crime is moving to cyber.

Brute Force Attacks are on the Rise as June sees a 671% increase

Sep 16, 2021 8:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With nearly one-third of all organizations targeted in a single week and just above one-quarter on the average, attempts to access externally facing resources is growing in popularity and ...

Cybercriminals Are Growing More Organized

Jul 28, 2021 9:03:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The cybercriminal underground is becoming increasingly organized, according to researchers at HP. The criminal underground functions like a regular economy, with people selling goods and ...

U.S. State Department Issues a Reward for Information on Foreign Cybercriminals Targeting Critical Infrastructure

Jul 23, 2021 8:24:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the wake of cyberattacks targeting U.S. infrastructure organizations, the U.S. government is stepping up measures to identify foreign threat actors and bring them to justice.

Mint Mobile, Porting Numbers, and Identity Theft

Jul 21, 2021 8:47:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

US telecommunications company Mint Mobile warned some users that their phone numbers had temporarily been ported to another carrier by an unauthorized individual, which allowed the ...

The Cost and Impact of Cybercrime Can Now Be Measured in a Single Minute

Jul 20, 2021 9:57:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the number of threat actors growing rapidly, along with an increased frequency of attacks, RiskIQ has put together a sobering perspective of how cybercrime impacts us in just 60 ...

[Eye Opener] The Biggest Bitcoin Heist Ever: A Whopping 3.6 Billion Dollars!

Jun 29, 2021 10:28:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I'm not sure why this is not all over the press. Bloomberg picked up on this though. A pair of South African brothers have vanished, along with Bitcoin worth $3.6 billion from their ...

Use of TLS to Obfuscate Malicious C2 Communications Doubles in the Last Year

Jun 2, 2021 4:57:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With 98% of all web traffic going over HTTPS, the malicious use of TLS (transport layer security) helps the cybercriminal conceal their activity specifics while also potentially doing so ...

Strange Chinese APT Interest in Buying Batches of AV Products

May 6, 2021 9:40:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Chinese military unit was recently accused of carrying out a years-long cyber espionage. The accusation from Japanese authorities was due to China's People Liberation Army buying ...

Genesis Market: a Study in the C2C Economy

May 5, 2021 8:55:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Digital Shadows describe Genesis Market, a criminal-to-criminal marketplace that aggregates and sells digital fingerprints to facilitate cyberattacks. The researchers say ...

FBI's Newly Release Internet Crime Report Shows Cybercrime has Ramped Up in 2020

Mar 31, 2021 4:17:38 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released their annual report, and the number of complaints have skyrocketed in 2020.

Not Your Father's Tech Support Scam

Mar 22, 2021 10:43:45 AM By Eric Howes

Over the past month or so customers using the Phish Alert Button (PAB) have been reporting a curious wave of what initially appeared to be run-of-the-mill tech support scam emails. As it ...

Cybercrime Officially Has Its Own Global Ecosystem

Mar 17, 2021 2:06:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

From Services, to Distribution, to Monetization, cybercriminals are getting so organized, cybersecurity experts are now beginning to see how vast the relationships and connections really ...

[THIS IS UGLY] A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

Mar 16, 2021 10:50:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

VICE just revealed a 2FA hole you can drive a truck through. A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. This ...

The Evolving Cybercriminal Market Has Given Birth to Impersonation-as-a-Service as Attackers Seek to Impersonate at Scale

Mar 15, 2021 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New research documents Impersonation-as-a-Service (IMPaaS) as an emerging threat where profiles of victim users are available to be used in campaigns where impersonation is critical.