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Over the past year, a Russian cybercrime group has launched over 200 business email compromise (BEC) campaigns targeting multinational organizations. [Read More]
A harmless-looking currency converter application downloaded by more than 10,000 users from Google Play was designed to deliver the Cerberus banking Trojan. [Read More]
Hackers linked to the North Korean government are believed to be behind the Magecart attacks on Claire’s and other online stores. [Read More]
Redwood, California-based anti-phishing firm Area 1 Security has raised $25 million in a Series D funding round led by ForgePoint Capital. [Read More]
Magecart web skimmers were found on the websites of eight cities in the United States and one thing they have in common is that they all use the Click2Gov platform. [Read More]
A group of cybercriminals managed to hide their web skimmer in the EXIF metadata of an image that was then surreptitiously loaded by compromised online stores. [Read More]
COVID-19 is fueling phishing and scams while BEC attacks continue to evolve and increase, according to a report from Abnormal Security. [Read More]
Magecart hackers targeted the online stores of retailers Claire’s and Intersport with skimmers designed to steal payment card information. [Read More]
The increase in mobile banking application usage is expected to lead to a rise in exploitation too, the FBI warns. [Read More]
Thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations across six continents have been targeted by an India-based hack-for-hire group. [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Phishing
Even organizations with the most robust defense solutions and advanced automated technologies cannot effectively combat threats such as BEC without the adequate support and nuanced expertise of humans.
Even though I've been analyzing malware for the past 20 years, I do understand that internet security is not merely a technical problem, but also a business problem.
DMARC is an email authentication standard designed to eliminate phishing and other types of attack that use spoofing to misrepresent an email sender identity.
Is the appropriate response to blame the victim when increasingly sophisticated attacks and the rise in credential thefts are making any user’s goal of protecting themselves much more difficult?
It’s hard keeping criminals from infiltrating networks, much less worrying that users will simply open the door to bad guys by letting their guard down.
While most of us aren’t asking for it, chances are high that we, too, have been—or will become—victims of a cyber attack.
While you may understand the risks that come from the use of social media, what options do you have to protect your organization against them?
As data moves online, social engineering techniques have become far more personalized, technologically advanced and ultimately successful.
Monitoring social media is a daunting task. Enterprises must have risk management plans in place to monitor, identify, combat and remediate social media-based threats.
For all the benefits that social media networks provide, organizations must recognize that they present a double-edged sword when it comes to security.
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