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Google this week announced that, starting next month, an update to its policy will effectively result in the rejection of ads for surveillance technology. [Read More]
Privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia have opened a joint investigation into facial recognition company Clearview AI over its use of personal data “scraped” off social media platforms and other websites. [Read More]
Honeywell has seen a significant increase in USB-borne malware that can cause major disruption to industrial control systems (ICS). [Read More]
Following a January report on malware found pre-installed on smartphones sold in the United States to budget-conscious users, Malwarebytes has discovered another mobile device riddled with malware from the get-go. [Read More]
German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month. [Read More]
A new ransomware family packs multiple unique features, including to improve performance and give its operators the option to only target networked SMB shares. [Read More]
Digital Shadows has found over 15 billion username and password combinations offered on cybercrime marketplaces, including more than 5 billion unique credentials. [Read More]
Over the past three years, one of the groups operating under the Magecart umbrella has targeted over 570 e-commerce websites and likely made over $7 million. [Read More]
Over the past year, a Russian cybercrime group has launched over 200 business email compromise (BEC) campaigns targeting multinational organizations. [Read More]
Researchers have released a free tool that allows users to recover files encrypted by the ThiefQuest Mac malware, which poses as ransomware. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Cybercrime
Many organizations are steadfast in their belief that dark web monitoring is a critical part of their security operations and the security industry is happy to fuel that belief.
Researchers have undertaken a deep dive into the shadowy, cyber world of those whose work involves abusing others online through trickery, extortion, fraud, and theft resulting from COVID-19.
CISA has recently designated many cyber security positions ‘essential roles', and our understanding of essential businesses and essential employees will continue to change as the pandemic evolves.
The barriers to entering the field of cybercrime have been significantly lowered, and for modest amounts of money, would-be scammers can buy high-quality phishing tools online.
Most of today’s cyber-attacks are front ended by phishing campaigns. So, what can organizations do to prevent their users from falling for the bait of these attacks?
Many of us are familiar with the two most common types of socially engineered attacks – phishing and spear-phishing – but there are many more to be aware of.
Although robocalls are a pain for many of us, action is being taken to bring the problem under control.
The holidays are also a bonanza for cybercriminals whose own sales and purchases of contraband on the dark web mirror the one-day-only specials of their consumer-facing counterparts.
Domain name typo-squatting is an established tactic in the world of cybercrime.
Intent-based segmentation, deception technology, and an integrated security fabric are essential tools in beating malware designed to avoid detection and analysis.
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