We report on the latest trends in cybercrime to help you stay informed and aware of what the current threat landscape looks like.
DMA Locker is an excellent example of cybercrime's furious speed of innovation. Version 1 showed up in January 2016, and V2 a month later, but the implementation of the encryption ...
Been suspecting that your users are plugging in any USB stick they find, to see what is on it? Well, you are right, they actually do that. Fresh scientific research by Google, and the ...
The Avast Blog reports a new "password stealer" feature in the Reveton ransomware. Reveton is the type of "police" lock/screen ransomware which falsely alerts users they've broken some ...
You are probably aware of the free one-time Email Exposure Check Pro (EEC Pro) we can run for you. We find all the email addresses of your domain that are out there available on the ...
Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.
Welcome to the new world of malware.
Michael Cooney at Network World summarized the current scams doing the rounds related to online dating and romance sites. A good reminder that heartless con artists use social engineering ...
Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...
FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center Ransomware
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="588"] Shodan Network[/caption] Eugene Kaspersky a few days ago wrote a hair-raising blog post about the reality of our Industrial Control Systems ...
The nakedsecurity blog over at Sophos highlighted a new phishing scam that would be good to alert your employees about. The bad guys are pretending to be payroll processing company ADP. ...
A few days ago I wrote about a 60 million Euro cyberheist. I have been digging into this a bit more, as it's the most advanced attack yet. Cybercrime is not revolutionary, it clearly ...
Finally, a positive outcome in a cyberheist lawsuit. Brian Krebs reported that a Professional Business Bank settled with a Village View Escrow Inc, a California cyberheist victim. A ...
Brian Krebs is on a roll. Here is why pill pushing spam pays off. "Consumer demand for cheap prescription drugs sold through spam-advertised Web sites shows no sign of abating, according ...
More from Brian Krebs's astounding blog post today. "As the chart I compiled above indicates, attackers are switching the lure or spoofed brand quite often, but popular choices include ...
The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated. Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on ...
Christopher Mims over at Technology Review was the first one to report on this. A large Gmail security hole could lead to mass harvesting of accounts, as hackers can automate this social ...
