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Tax season security tips: Protect yourself from cybercrime
Between December 2016 and February 2017, IBM X-Force researchers saw a 6,000 percent increase in tax-related spam emails. The researchers see this increase and other factors …
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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 …
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Phishers offer WoW players free in-game pets
Avid World of Warcraft players are being targeted with phishing emails seemingly coming from Blizzard Entertainment, the video game developer behind the popular multiplayer …
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Minecraft players get scams instead of mods
Google has recently removed 87 fake Minecraft mods from Google Play, after being notified by researchers about their malicious nature. A partial list of these malicious …
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Lithuanian arrested for $100 million BEC scams
Criminal charges were announced against Evaldas Rimasauskas for orchestrating a fraudulent business email compromise (BEC) scheme that induced two U.S.-based Internet …
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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 …
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Even a cybersecurity firm can fall for a W-2 phishing scam
US Tax Day (April 18) is quickly approaching, and scammers are hard at work to get what they can before the set tax season deadline. The US IRS is warning about last-minute …
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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 …
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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 …
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The impact of highly targeted attacks on modern organizations
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist at Ntrepid, talks about the growing trend of targeted attacks, as well as strategies …
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With 1.2 million phishing attacks, 2016 was a success for cybercriminals
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for phishing in history. The total number of phishing attacks in 2016 was 1,220,523. This …
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Cyber crooks’ latest tricks for targeting Chrome users
Chrome users have lately been targeted with a few unusual malware delivery and scam attempts. The “font wasn’t found” trick The first one comes from compromised WordPress …
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