Threat Actors Use Fake Sites for Espionage

Researchers at Volexity report that the Vietnamese threat actor OceanLotus has been using phony news and bogus activist websites to track users, or to trick them into downloading malware. ...

New Qbot Phishing Attack Pretends to be Windows Defender to Trick Its Victims

One of the most dangerous pieces of malware is back with a new campaign that takes advantage of social engineering techniques to look convincing enough to fool your users.

Members of the Cybercrime Group Responsible for NotPetya Indicted by U.S. Government

Six members of the Russian hacker group known as Sandworm who have carried out some of the most well-known cyberattacks in the last 6 years appear to have been brought to justice.

Trends in Malicious Attachments Used in Phishing Emails

People need to be familiar with the types of malicious attachments used in phishing emails, according to Lawrence Abrams at BleepingComputer. One of the most common methods of installing ...

The Most Dangerous Celebrity of 2020...

...Is Anna Kendrick, according to researchers at McAfee. The researchers analyzed Internet search results for celebrities and found that Kendrick’s search results (through no fault of her ...

Scammers are using Black Lives Matter as Phishbait

A phishing campaign is using Black Lives Matter-themed phishing lures to trick people into installing malware, Yahoo reports. Adam Levin from Cyberscout told Yahoo that the phishing ...

Spike in Emotet Attacks Against Government Agencies Seen Around the Globe in September

Attacks involving what is arguably the world’s most dangerous malware are on the rise, with reports from the cybersecurity agencies in Japan, New Zealand, and France.

Legitimate Services, but still Hook, Line, and Sinker

A malware distribution campaign is abusing organizations’ contact forms to send malicious emails designed to catch the attention of companies’ customer support personnel. The attackers ...

Organizations Aren’t Prepared to Recover from Cyberattacks on Active Directory

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging Active Directory to spread malware and even hold the organization for ransom. New data suggests you’re nowhere near ready for it.

QBot is Back With New Phishing Tricks

Researchers at Check Point warn that the QBot banking Trojan now has the ability to hijack email threads on infected devices and send malicious emails to the victim’s contacts. The ...