Conventional wisdom recommends to never negotiate with ransomware actors. They can't be trusted. But Mark Lance at GuidePoint Security recently made the case that organizations can gather important information through negotiations, slow down the process and even lower the ransom demand.
Researchers say a proxy service is routing internet traffic through unsuspecting users' systems that it turns into residential exit nodes, luring them into downloading the proxy application through offers of cracked software and games. Antivirus engines don't detect the application.
The LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group may have become a victim of its own success, having grown "too fast and too quick," to the point where its infrastructure and ability to handle affiliates' requests is lagging, leading many to desert the operation, says ransomware researcher Jon DiMaggio.
An international law enforcement operation took down a phishing-as-a-service website that security researchers say was responsible for more than 150,000 phishing domains. The site, 16shop, sold phishing kits that targeted more than 70,000 people in 43 countries.
A little-known cloud infrastructure provider called Cloudzy has been facilitating nation-state hackers, commercial spyware operations and ransomware affiliates' attacks by failing to keep a close eye on what its customers are doing, researchers at cybersecurity firm Halcyon warn.
Cybercriminals continue to rely on proven attack methods while developing new ways to infiltrate digital environments and break through your human defense layer.
But how can you reduce your organization’s attack surface? We looked at 12.5 million users across 35,681 organizations to find out.
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Spanish law enforcement officers scored several recent wins against cybercriminals this month. Police nabbed a Ukrainian hacker on the run for 10 years, arrested a fraudster known to have run a smishing campaign that amassed 1.2 million euros, and broke up a phishing nexus - all in two weeks.
The Washington Post recently highlighted contracts between the Russian Company NTC Vulkan and the Russian Ministry of Defense. This public intelligence brief outlines the threats to critical infrastructure described in those documents. The Russian cyber program Amesit is a broad and wide-ranging program executed over...
This Case Study talks about how when E-Commerce organization Pat Pat’s business grew their true fraud chargeback fees and losses also started to increase.
They found it difficult to distinguish between their trusted users and fraudulent behaviour of bad actors and found it hard to keep up with the amount of...
The Asia Pacific region has experienced a significant surge in online fraud due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Phishing, vishing, and smishing attacks have become rampant, with phishing attempts rising by 75% and vishing attacks increasing by 554%. Notably, bot attacks have risen by 135%. It is crucial for businesses in...
Fraud leaders are under pressure to prevent fraud while also providing a frictionless customer experience. Email addresses are the logical front-end fraud prevention layer because they leave a trace of every online interaction. This trace can be used to assess the risk of every transaction, and it offers less friction...
Digital fraud has increased significantly with the global attack rate up 20% year-over-year (YOY).
As fraud levels up and their sophistication increases it becomes more important than ever to classify fraud into different types.
This Risk Analysis Report, talks about several trends and analyses and also explores...
This Case Study is about a Large Financial Institution on how they accurately identified and blocked money mule accounts, as well as detected wider mule networks, while prioritizing a frictionless experience for legitimate customers.
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Granting third parties access to sensitive data introduces inherent risks that organizations must address effectively. So how does an organization best manage that third-party risk while balancing an organization's inherent need for usability?.
Cyber crooks are performing server hijacking or proxyjacking to make money from the sale of their victims' compromised bandwidth on proxy networks, a new report by security firm Akamai finds. "The attacker doesn't just steal resources but also leverages the victim's unused bandwidth," it says.
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