cybercrime
Fake Flash updaters deliver cryptominers AND update Flash
Cryptominers have dethroned ransomware as the top malware threat and cybercriminals are coming up with new ways to keep the mining activity secret from the victims. One of …
Identity spoofing is the most prevalent attack vector for the gaming and gambling industry
A new ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report revealed that identity spoofing, fuelled by stolen identity data, is the most prevalent attack vector for the gaming and gambling …
Researchers link Industroyer to NotPetya
ESET researchers believe they have found evidence that the TeleBots APT was behind the December 2016 attacks against the Ukraine energy sector that resulted in blackouts …
IIS attacks surge from 2,000 to 1.7 million over last quarter
IIS, Drupal, and Oracle WebLogic web technologies experienced increased attacks in Q2 2018. According to a new threat report from eSentire, IIS attacks showed a massive …
Cryptomining dethrones ransomware as top threat in 2018
Based on trends in the first half of 2018, Webroot found that cybercriminals are shifting to increasingly sophisticated and targeted means of attack while also expanding their …
BEC-as-a-Service: Hacked accounts available from $150
Digital Shadows has announced the findings of new research revealing the diversity of methods used to infiltrate company emails. The FBI has estimated that scams resulting …
Identity fraudsters are getting better and better at what they do
Socure, a provider of predictive analytics for digital identity verification, found that fraudsters have virtually eliminated reliable indicators for detecting fake identities …
SIE Europe: Data sharing initiative to combat cybercrime launches
SIE Europe emerged from stealth mode to launch an initiative to enable European organisations to contribute and share Internet data. This consortium advances the detection and …
Explosion of look-alike domains aims to steal sensitive data from online shoppers
Venafi released research on the explosion of look-alike domains, which are routinely used to steal sensitive data from online shoppers. Venafi’s research analyzed suspicious …
Phorpiex bots target remote access servers to deliver ransomware
Threat actors are brute-forcing their way into enterprise endpoints running server-side remote access applications and attempting to spread the GandCrab ransomware onto other …
LoJax: First-ever UEFI rootkit detected in a cyberattack
ESET researchers have discovered a cyberattack that used a UEFI rootkit to establish a presence on the victims’ computers. Dubbed LoJax, this rootkit was part of a campaign …
New tactics subvert traditional security measures and strike organizations of all sizes
Alert Logic released its latest cybersecurity analysis, “Critical Watch Report: The State of Threat Detection 2018,” which shows attackers are gaining vastly greater scale …