UK residents hit with extremely personalized scam emails
A compelling and potentially very successful email spam campaign is being leveraged against UK residents, warns Sophos researcher Paul Ducklin. The email addresses the …
Modern security programs: Artificial intelligence and machine learning
A new research report by Carbon Black aggregates insight from more than 400 interviews with leading cybersecurity researchers who discussed non-malware attacks, artificial …
Malware posing as Siemens PLC software is hitting industrial environments
What kind of malware is hitting industrial control systems, and how worried should we and the operators of theses systems actually be? These are question that Ben Miller, …
Sushi or pizza? Mac or Windows threat?
Fortinet researchers have made an unusual find: a malicious Word file that is meant to target both OS X and Windows users. As has lately become the norm, when opened, the file …
How the Necurs botnet influences the stock market
After a three-months-long partial hiatus, the Necurs botnet is back to flinging spam emails left and right. But unlike before the break, when it was mostly delivering the …
Organizations still vulnerable to brute force attacks
While increases in malware are clearly a major threat to both enterprises and service providers, network complexity is creating its own vulnerability, according to Ixia. The …
Fileless attack framework was used in many recent attacks
In the last month or so, a number of security companies spotted attackers targeting a variety of organizations around the world with spear-phishing emails delivering …
Organizations hit with Petya ransomware with a twist
Various organizations are being targeted by cyber crooks leveraging the infamous Petya ransomware. A modified Petya version inside a Trojan But victims will have a difficult …
Top five most wanted malware families worldwide
The Hancitor downloader has surged into the top five most wanted malware families worldwide for the first time, according to Check Point. The downloader, that installs …
Intel’s CHIPSEC can detect CIA’s OS X rootkit
As details about CIA’s hacking capabilities and tools are, bit by bit, popping to the surface, companies are trying to offer users some piece of mind. In the wake of …
Catch emerging strains of ransomware with RansomFree
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Yoel Eilat, Senior Product Manager at Cybereason, talks about RansomFree – the free, anti-ransomware protection …
Clever spear-phishing emails hit employees involved in SEC filings
FireEye has flagged a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign hitting US-based businesses with emails purportedly coming from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). …