social engineering

“More often than not, malware peddlers’ main goal is to deliver their malicious wares to the maximum number of users possible. Choosing the right lure is crucial …

“Cybercriminals continue targeting enterprises with malicious emails whose ultimate goal is to infect company computers with the Dyre/Dyreza banking malware. But instead …

At RSA Conference 2015, Proofpoint released the results of its annual study that details the ways attackers exploit end-users’ psychology to circumvent IT security.Last …

“An experienced and resource-backed cybercrime gang” is using the relatively new Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan coupled with effective social engineering to steal …

Cybercriminals are increasingly using persuasion techniques in order to manipulate employees to do things they normally wouldn’t, usually resulting in the loss of money …

A two-year study of over 850,000 Facebook scams by antivirus software provider Bitdefender has revealed that scammers have infected millions of users with the same repackaged …

Apple has released a statement denying that iCloud was hacked to steal nude photos of celebrities. “When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately …

We know that the human element is often the weakest link in the security chain, and that attackers - whether they are after money, user information, corporate or state secrets …

In my capacity as an academic researcher at Northeastern University, I collaborated with computer scientists Stevens Le Blond, Adina Uritesc and Cedric Gilbert at the Max …

Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today. Cybercriminals no longer send out thousands of emails at random …

Security is a fast paced industry. You only need to use the Internet for a short time to understand how and why the activities of digital criminals pose a real and significant …

Over the last year, Symantec researchers have been following and warning about exceptionally effective and sophisticated malware delivery / phishing campaigns that have been …