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U.S. Coast Guard Warns of Phishing Attacks Designed for Data Theft and Malware Infection

A new Marine Safety Information Bulletin from the U.S. Coast Guard demonstrates that cybercriminals aren’t just after land-based businesses.

U.K. Sees an Increase in Sophisticated Phishing Attacks Targeting Educational Institutions

Using a mix of identity deception, domain spoofing, credential theft, and bank fraud, scammers are taking advantage of soft targets in the U.K.’s education sector.

Deep Fakes Getting Better Every Day With AI / Machine Learning

A recent article in The Next Web showed how AI can magically remove a person or object from a video background as computer algorithms “clips” the person walking across a street out of the ...

SANS Security Awareness Report Highlights the Rising Era of Awareness Training

SANS Security Awareness, a division of SANS Institute, announced they have released their new 2019 Security Awareness Report. In its fifth consecutive year, this very useful annual report ...

UK Mid-Sized Firms Lost £30bn to CyberAttacks in 2018

Phil Muncaster at InfoSec Mag reported that "Cybersecurity incidents have cost UK mid-market firms a combined £30bn over the past year as automated attacks become the norm, according to ...

An Amazon Phishing Scam Hits Just In Time For Prime Day

Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day 2019 will begin at 12 a.m. PT on Monday, July 15 and conclude at 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 16.

U.S. Coast Guard Warns Shipping Industry on Cybersecurity. Are You Next?

Kim Nash wrote in the WSJ Cybersecurity newsletter: "Avast! Pirates are getting better with cyber weapons on the high seas, WSJ Pro’s James Rundle reports. Maritime freight operators must ...

Homeland Security Warning About Phishing As A Threat to 2020 Elections

The US Department of Homeland Security is warning state election officials that phishing attacks are one of the greatest threats to watch out for as the 2020 elections approach.

Discovered This Year: 5,334 Kits Offering Evasive Criminal Phishing-as-a-Service

Commodity phishing kits are making it easier for unskilled criminals to run sophisticated phishing campaigns for a low price, according to a report from cloud security provider Cyren.

[Heads-up] IT Pros In The Trenches Of Iran And China's New Cyber War Against The U.S.

You did not sign up for this, but you are finding yourself in the trenches of a cyber war which is slowly but surely moving from a cold to a hot stage. The latest development is that the ...

“Lack of Security Awareness” a Major Reason Why Financial Firms Are 300 Time More Likely to Fall Prey to Cyberattacks

The bad guys always go where the money is. And financial firms are grossly ill-prepared for cyberattacks and suffer higher costs in addressing successful attacks. Boston Consulting Group ...

80% of all Brand Deception Phishing Scams Targeting Execs Pretend to be Microsoft

The prevalence of Office 365 and the Windows OS has caused cybercriminals to choose the software titan as their primary brand used in identity deception phishing scams.

Over Half of Employees Don’t Adhere to Email Security Protocols

A new survey by Barracuda Networks shows that the vast majority (87%) of decision makers believe email threats will rise in the coming year. However, companies are ill-prepared to defend ...

Globally, One-Third of Organizations Experience Ransomware Attacks Weekly

The latest data from Australian telecommunications provider Telstra shows ransomware is running rampant, with security breaches not far behind in frequency.

Cyber Crime Refines Their Social Engineering Tactics

Attackers are improving their strategies by accounting for new developments in technology, Help Net Security reports. Researchers at FireEye analyzed 1.3 billion phishing emails and ...

Enter Facebook's Libra, with Scammers in its Train

Within twenty-four hours of Facebook’s announcement of its new Libra cryptocurrency and Calibra digital wallet, more than three-hundred sites were registered with domain names associated ...

Dridex Credential Stealer Returns With New Antivirus Evasion - Including Application Whitelisting

SCMag reported that a new strain of the notorious Dridex malware has been spotted using polymorphism antivirus evasion techniques in phishing emails. The Dridex credential-stealer that ...

Brand-New Tool: Social Media Phishing Test Checks for Users Vulnerable to Social Media Related Attacks

Phishing is still the #1 threat action used in social engineering attacks, and spear phishing, in particular, takes advantage of your users’ socially networked lives.

Instagram Vanity Makes for Vulnerability

Scammers are targeting Instagram users with phony offers to verify their accounts in order to receive Instagram’s blue checkmark, Threatpost reports. Researchers at Sucuri came across a ...

New Malware Pretends to Be You by Matching Your Keystroke Characteristics

Cybersecurity researchers have developed a new keystroke impersonation attack that avoids being detected by keystroke-based biometric security solutions.