cybercrime
Phishing attacks responsible for three-quarters of all malware
With phishing now widely used as a mechanism for distributing ransomware, a new NTT Security reveals that 77% of all detected ransomware globally was in four main sectors – …
What motivates youngsters to get into cybercrime?
A UK National Crime Agency report, which is based on debriefs with offenders and those on the fringes of criminality, explores why young people assessed as unlikely to commit …
InterContinental confirms card data breach at over 1,000 locations
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has reported last week that a huge number of their hotels in the US and Puerto Rico have been compromised with payment card …
One in five UK businesses suffered a cyber attack in the past year
One in five businesses have fallen victim to cyber attacks in the past year, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). The survey of more than 1,200 businesses …
38% of consumers affected by ransomware pay up
Consumers are increasingly being targeted with ransomware, and many of them are paying up, according to Trustlook. Since the beginning of 2016, ransomware has gone from a …
CLDAP reflection attacks generate up to 24 Gbps of traffic
Akamai researchers Jose Arteaga and Wilber Majia have identified a new Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) reflection and amplification method. CLDAP …
How fraudsters stole millions with the help of a legitimate online tool
Identity thieves have managed to steal $30 million from the US Internal Revenue Service by taking advantage of an online tool designed to help students fill out financial aid …
MS Office zero-day is used to infect millions of users with Dridex
The still unpatched MS Office zero-day vulnerability publicized by McAfee and FireEye researchers this weekend is being exploited to deliver the infamous Dridex banking …
MS Office zero-day exploited in attacks – no enabling of macros required!
A new zero-day flaw affecting all versions of Microsoft Office is being exploited in attacks in the wild, and no user is safe – not even those who use a fully patched …
20,000-bots-strong Sathurbot botnet grows by compromising WordPress sites
A 20,000-bots-strong botnet is probing WordPress sites, trying to compromise them and spread a backdoor downloader Trojan called Sathurbot as far and as wide as possible. …
“iCloud Mail” phishing emails doing rounds
The latest email phishing campaign targeting Apple users is aimed at gathering as much information as possible from unfortunate victims. The email, made to look like it comes …
Most organizations were victims of business email compromise in 2016
Nearly three quarters of corporate treasury and finance professionals said their companies were victims of payments fraud last year, according to the Association for Financial …
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