Kicking You While You’re Down: Ransomware Attacks Begin to Adopt a “Triple Extortion” Model
New tactics spotted by security researchers at CheckPoint indicate a growing pattern by ransomware gangs…
Ransomware Attack Demands Cause Cyber Insurance Claim Amounts to Skyrocket
The perfect storm of large enterprises, cyber insurance policies, successful ransomware attacks, and ransom demands…
FBI Finds Phishing Sites Abusing Search Results and Ads to Steal Banking Credentials
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a private industry notification (PIN) warning…
New QuickBooks-Themed Phishing Attack Seeks to Infect Victims with Dridex Malware
Purporting to be invoices and payment reminders, this new campaign targets users of the popular…
Email-Based Threats Increase 64% as Attacks Grow in Sophistication and Volume
New data from Mimecast shows how email-based threats are not only the greatest perceived concern,…
Phishing Scammers Remove ‘External Sender’ Email Warnings Impersonating Internal Users
With little more than some CSS and HTML coding, a security researcher demonstrates how easy…
Your Organization Needs to Take Security Awareness Training More Seriously
Your organization needs to take security awareness training (SAT) more seriously. I mean truly serious,…
Wine-Themed Phishing Attacks Have Turned Sour During the Pandemic
Scammers took advantage of people’s desire to order wine online during the pandemic, Decanter reports….
Huge Business Email Compromise Campaign Targets More Than 120 Organizations
According to Bleeping Computer, Microsoft reported that a large business email compromise (BEC) campaign has…
Fake Court Order Used to Take Over Domains
Motherboard reports that a scammer used a phony court order to trick a domain registrar…