cybercrime
Crypto giveaway scams continue to escalate
Group-IB has noted a fivefold increase in the number of domains used for crypto giveaway scams that involve fake YouTube streams in the first half of 2022. In addition to …
Cybercriminals are changing focus from large hospitals to smaller hospital systems
Critical Insight announced the release of the firm’s H1 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report, which analyzes breach data reported to the United States Department of Health and …
Most IT leaders think partners, customers make their business a ransomware target
Global organizations are increasingly at risk of ransomware compromise via their extensive supply chains. During May and June 2022 Sapio Research polled 2,958 IT …
High-profile vulnerabilities encourage organizations to improve security posture
As organizations go about their regular routine of finding and adding new technologies to help increase their overall success, each organization must keep in mind the security …
Go-Ahead cyberattack might derail UK public transport services
One of the UK’s largest public transport operators, Go-Ahead Group, has fallen victim to a cyberattack. The Go-Ahead Group, which connects people across its bus and rail …
Does your cybercrime prevention program work?
KELA surveyed 400 security team members in the US who were responsible for gathering cybercrime threat intelligence daily to better understand if they’re proactively scanning …
Should ransomware payments be banned? A few considerations
Several U.S. states have recently moved to ban local and state agencies and organizations funded by taxpayers’ dollars from paying off ransomware gangs, and a few more …
How BEC attacks on human capital management systems are increasing
In this Help Net Security video, Jon Hencinski, VP of Security Operations at Expel, talks about how their SOC team has recently observed Business Email Compromise (BEC) …
COVID-19 data put for sale on the Dark Web
Resecurity, a California-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500, has identified leaked PII stolen from Thailand’s Department of Medical Sciences containing …
0ktapus: Twilio, Cloudflare phishers targeted 130+ organizations
Group-IB has discovered that the recently disclosed phishing attacks on the employees of Twilio and Cloudflare were part of the massive phishing campaign that resulted in …
We need to think about ransomware differently
In this Help Net Security video, David Mahdi, Chief Strategy Officer & CISO Advisory at Sectigo, talks about how ransomware isn’t solely a malware problem, bad actors …
New social engineering tactics discovered in the wild
In this Help Net Security video, Otavio Freire, President and CTO at SafeGuard Cyber, offers insight on new social engineering tactics discovered in the wild, and illustrates …