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Nearly half of consumers have been cybercrime victims

45% of consumers have been a victim of some form of cybercrime — with 65% choosing not to report the incident to authorities. Research also found that one in six of these …

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Stolen medical records available for sale from $0.03 per record

The development of the market for stolen data and related hacking skills indicate that the business of cybercrime in the healthcare sector is growing, according to Intel …

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Over one-third of Americans have been hacked

Two-thirds of Americans believe themselves to be tech savvy, although their actions with regard to online security indicate otherwise – with millennials being the worst …

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Cybercrime not slowing down anytime soon

In Q3 2016, cybercriminals were increasingly more ingenious, using innovative technologies and new tools to spread their wares. This is confirmed by the 18 million new malware …

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Fight fraud: Scams, identity theft, ransomware attacks

In an increasingly technology-oriented world, cybercrime has become all too common for both consumers and businesses. Internet crime takes many forms and includes everything …

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Android banking Trojan asks victims to send selfies with ID cards

The Acecard Android Trojan is a threat that has been around for quite some time. Its main goal is to collect login credentials used by the victims to access their online …

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How to implement an EFSS ransomware recovery plan

Ransomware attacks are at an all-time high, and security experts warn it has become a matter of “when” not “if” your company will be breached. The number of victims has grown …

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Deception mechanisms for detecting sophisticated attacks

Private information stored in document files is the most popular target for attacks coming from professional hackers, according to TopSpin Security. File traps, including …

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Trade of online gaming currencies fuels cybercrime

Though the majority of gaming companies prohibit the real-money trading of online gaming currencies, the practice is still widespread, and according to Trend Micro …

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UK prosecutors get new guidelines for pursuing cyberbullies, stalkers

Cyber bullying, virtual mobbing, doxxing, cyber stalking and harassment, revenge pornography – these are just some of the behaviors that the Internet and social media …

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100+ online shops compromised with payment data-stealing code

Since March 2016 (and possibly even earlier), someone has been compromising a variety of online shops and injecting them with malicious JavaScript code that exfiltrates …

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Vast phishing campaigns boost global criminal attack footprint

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed a record number of phishing attacks in the second quarter of 2016. APWG observed 466,065 unique phishing websites in Q2. This …

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