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Pawn Storm cyberspies still at work, target NATO and the White House
Pawn Storm, the long-standing economic and political cyber-espionage operation that has been first detailed in October 2014, continues unabated. Aiming to compromise the …
New trend in cybercriminal activity: APT wars
Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group …
Main sources of data breaches: Phishing, RAM scrapers, web app insecurity
US telecom giant Verizon has published its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is based on an analysis of nearly 80,000 security incidents, including more than 2,100 …
Phishers increasingly target banks and ISP accounts
Phishing against banks and ISPs rose markedly compared to other sectors in the third quarter of 2014, according to the APWG. The number of brands being attacked remains high, …
Russian hackers executed the US State Department, White House network breaches
The October 2014 breaches of some of the computer systems of the US State Department and the White House have been executed by Russian hackers, unnamed US officials familiar …
Fake “Urgent billing update” email leads to Virgin Media, Paypal phishing page
Customers of UK-based telecom and ISP Virgin Media are being targeted with a clever spam campaign that is after their account information, but also PayPal account login …
Apple-themed “Your account has been limited” phishing emails doing rounds
Apple users are once again targeted with phishing emails, warns Bitdefender, and the latest variant of the scheme is impersonating Apple Support claiming that their account …
Bank of America phishing attack hits customers
Phishers are once again targeting Bank of America customers, warns Malwarebytes’ Chris Boyd. He doesn’t say it, but it’s likely that the potential victims …
State-sponsored hackers target European, Israeli organizations
Rocket Kitten, the APT group of attackers that have been delivering spear-phishing emails with the Ghole malware to Israeli and European institutions late last year, have …
CS:GO players targeted with phishing attempt, malware
Typosquatting is an effective means to trick users into believing they have landed on the legitimate site they wanted to visit, so it’s no wonder that it’s often …
NLPRank: An innovative tool for blocking APT malicious domains
Security researchers working at OpenDNS’ Security Labs have developed NLPRank, a new system that helps detect – quickly and relatively accurately – phishing …
Phishers target victims of iOS device theft
A clever phishing scheme has been spotted targeting users who have had their iPad or iPhone stolen, leading researchers to believe that it has been set up by a criminal group …
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