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New Botnet Promising Free Shoes as Phishbait

Researchers at WhiteOps warn that a family of malicious Android apps are spreading a new ad-fraud botnet by promising free shoes and other products to users who install the apps. The ...

Threat Group DeathStalker Uses PowerShell-based Implant Powersing to Hack into Financial Services Firms

Apparently focused on more intelligence gathering than taking direct malicious action against the organizations they compromise, this attack is filled with ingenuity.

August Fresh Content Updates from KnowBe4: Including New Disinformation Training Content for Your Users

Here are a few important feature and fresh content updates to share with you for the month of August.

The Heart has Its Reasons, but Those Shouldn't Become an Enterprise Risk

The FBI has warned that victims of romance scams lost $475 million in 2019, BleepingComputer reports. In Idaho alone, nearly one hundred of these victims lost more than $1 million each. ...

Phishing with Slack-Files.com: Bad Guys Find Yet Another Free Host for Malicious Files

Slack, the ubiquitous communication and collaboration platform, has been getting more and more attention over the past few months as a potential phishing platform and target for malicious ...

The U.K. is Under Massive Cyberattack and They Are Nowhere Near Prepared

New insights into the cybersecurity readiness of U.K. organizations shows cyberattacks are plentiful and costly, and there aren’t enough cybersecurity pros to help.

Funding for startup U.K. Cybersecurity Firms has Increased by 940% Since Lockdown

Yes, 940%. The demand for cybersecurity has risen so much since COVID, that the U.K. is seeing a new cybersecurity business registered every week and massive job vacancies.

One-Fifth of Organizations Have Experienced a Security Breach Due to Their Remote Workforce

Having a remote workforce has been keeping organizations running, but new data puts a spotlight on the realities of what preparations were taken and whether organizations are truly secure.

New Lazarus Spearphishing Attack on Crypto Organizations Uses a LinkedIn Job Posting as its Front

What better way to gain complete control over a crypto organization’s network that to target their sysadmin with a Job Posting and then spear phish them?

The Bureau Explains How Tech Support Scams Work

Tech support scams function like organized businesses and consist of various criminals fulfilling different roles, according to court documents obtained by ZDNet. The documents contain ...