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Defense contractors, manufacturers targeted with malware-as-a-service infostealer

Information stealing FormBook malware is being lobbed at defense contractors, manufacturers and firms in the aerospace sector in the US and South Korea. Delivery methods The …

Office 365
KnockKnock campaign targets Office 365 corporate email accounts

Researchers uncovered KnockKnock, an attack on Office 365 Exchange Online email accounts, originating from 16 countries around the world and targeted organizations in …

Equifax
Equifax, former CEO reveal more details about the devastating breach

Mandiant has concluded the forensic part of its Equifax breach investigation, and the results are as follows: 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted, …

cybercrime
The global impact of huge cyber security events

The past 12 months have seen a number of unprecedented cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact and rate of spread. Already causing widespread public concern, …

Search
Cybercriminals increasingly focusing on credential theft

Criminal tactics used to access user credentials are growing in prevelance, and that a record 47 percent of all malware is new or zero day, and thus able to evade …

Which security investments make a difference?

Costly cyber attacks are having a significant and growing financial impact on businesses worldwide. According to Accenture and the Ponemon Institute, in 2017 the average cost …

biohazard
Healthcare sector reports greatest number of security incidents

McAfee Labs saw healthcare surpass public sector to report the greatest number of security incidents in Q2, while the Faceliker Trojan helped drive quarter’s 67% increase in …

Skull
Shocker? Companies still unprepared to deal with ransomware

Companies and government agencies are overwhelmed by frequent, severe ransomware attacks, which have now become the #1 cyber threat to organizations, according to Crowd …

finance biohazard
XPCTRA financial malware leaves no stone unturned

A Trojan that has previously been only stealing users’ banking credentials has been modified to do much more than that. This new variant, dubbed XPCTRA, can also steal …

vectors
Three out of four DDoS attacks target multiple vectors

Three out of every four DDoS attacks employed blended, multi-vector approaches in the second quarter of 2017, according to Nexusguard. Distribution of DDoS attack vectors The …

criminal hacking
Criminal hacking: Top technology risk to health, safety and prosperity

Americans believe criminal hacking into computer systems is now a top risk to their health, safety and prosperity. Criminal hacking, a new ESET survey finds, outranks other …

fish phishing
46,000 new phishing sites are created every day

An average of 1.385 million new, unique phishing sites are created each month, with a high of 2.3 million sites created in May. The data collected by Webroot shows today’s …

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