cybercrime
Ransomware back in big way, 181.5 million attacks since January
SonicWall announces record numbers for malware volume, ransomware attacks, encrypted threats and chip-based attacks in the mid-year update of the 2018 SonicWall Cyber Threat …
Ticketmaster breach part of massive credit card skimming campaign
RiskIQ researchers have discovered that the recent breach of Ticketmaster was not a one-off event as initially reported, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming …
UK govt announces specialized cybercrime court in London
It is just a matter of time until specialized courts for cybercrime cases pop up, and the UK is already working on one. The new court will be located in the heart of the City …
Cryptocurrency miners poised for continued growth
WatchGuard threat intelligence from Q1 2018 revealed that 98.8 percent of seemingly common Linux/Downloader malware variants were actually designed to deliver a popular …
Cybercriminals will gravitate to criminal activity that maximizes their profit
McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2018, examining the growth and trends of new malware, ransomware, and other threats in Q1 2018. McAfee Labs saw on average …
Mobile is the new frontier for malicious bots
Distil Networks analyzed over 100 million mobile devices on its networks. The findings suggest that sophisticated cybercriminals and bot operators now implement a new …
Losses due to BEC scams are escalating
Despite falling down on the list of most often reported Internet-facilitated crimes, Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise is still the type of crime that results …
Office 365 users targeted by phishers employing simple HTML tricks
Phishers are using a simple but effective trick to fool Microsoft’s NLP-based anti-phishing protections and Office 365 users into entering their login credentials into …
Why cybercriminals are turning to cryptojacking for easy money
The cryptocurrency market has seen an incredible amount of attention and hype over the last year, culminating with Bitcoin values soaring by more than 1,300 percent in 2017. …
Banking Trojans and cryptojacking on the rise
A new report analyzes threat data collected from approximately 750,000 Morphisec protected endpoints globally, between January 1 and March 31, 2018, as well as from in-depth …
Has paying the ransom become business as usual?
Radware released its 2018 Executive Application and Network Security Report. For the first time in the survey’s five-year history, a majority of executives (53%) reported …
Protecting consumers from mobile and IoT threats
A new report by Allot Communications revealed a dynamic and automated threat landscape in which consumers lack the security expertise to effectively protect themselves. Mobile …
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