Criminals are disguising themselves as your business partners
Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint spent a week in February monitoring email correspondence received by 3,000 organizations in the UK, US, and Australia. What they found was that virtually every business (98 percent) was targeted by a malicious email coming from a trusted domain operated by a supplier. According to Proofpoint, the majority of these attacks did not carry a malicious …
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Hacking and ransomware are key tools for criminals right now
Despite the fact the world has been living with Covid-19 for nearly a year now, most criminals are still using the pandemic to defraud people and make their way into corporate networks. According to a new report from Positive Technologies, hackers have focused their attentions on two victim pools in particular: the healthcare industry and remote workers. Organizations in the …
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Criminals are getting better at spoofing banking services
Covid-19 continues to provide inspiration for cybercriminals and fraudsters looking to scam people out of their hard-earned money. A new report from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender claims that, with Covid-19 forcing people indoors, online shopping and banking is surging. Criminals are well aware of this fact and have started spoofing banking emails more frequently, looking to defraud consumers. In September, for …
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Ransom, bribery and the darknet – Why cyber criminals are shifting their modus operandi
27-year-old Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov believed that he had his next victim in sight. Arriving in the US in July 2020 – despite the Coronavirus pandemic – he began communicating with an employee of a business via WhatsApp. Kriuchkov had a simple proposition. In exchange for the employee inserting a USB stick infected with ransomware into his company’s computer systems, Kriuchkov …
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