An analysis of the most popular 1 million global domains shows that most domain owners have not attempted to implement fraud protection through the latest and most complete form of protection, DMARC. Of those that have attempted DMARC, only 23 percent are actually achieving protection from fraud.
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Dark web vendors offer a wide range of technological crime. From distributed denial of service attacks to pre-recorded phone calls, there is a myriad of knowledge and listings for hacking & exploits.
This report aims to bring a more rigorous and scientific approach to analyzing content on the dark web.
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The financial industry continues to be a high-risk target for fraud, primarily fueled by the sale of stolen credentials, account numbers, pins, and personal and financial information.
While larger financial institutions have dedicated in-house teams and sophisticated technologies in place to detect incidents,...
The arms race between cybersecurity vendors and determined adversaries has never been more heated. As soon as a new security tool is released, threat actors strive to develop a way around it. One advanced threat technique that is experiencing success is the use of fileless attacks, where no executable file is written...
The success of a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack lies in exploiting the trust and familiarity between sender and recipient, and evading traditional security solutions by eliminating the use of malicious URLs or attachments - which existing security solutions were never designed to do.
According to the FBI,...
Hackers crashed the Winter Olympics, apparently by using destructive malware dubbed "Olympic Destroyer." The attack resulted in the Pyeonchang 2018 website being offline for 12 hours and WiFi unavailable during the opening ceremony, but organizers say no competitions were disrupted.
More than 4,200 websites, some belonging to the U.S., U.K. and Australian governments, have been turning their visitors' computers into mining machines to harvest the virtual currency Monero. The security lapse continues the recent trend of cryptocurrency mining malware overtaking ransomware.
Although some of the most prolific fraud sites exist on the clear web, the research captured in this report reveals numerous instances where data was leaked or
sold for the purposes of committing fraud.
Dark web vendors have thoroughly systematized the fraud trade. From basic to more sophisticated sites, hosts...
Illegal transactions on the internet have long been conducted in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. But underground vendors are accepting new kinds of virtual currency that may be safer to store and offer more privacy protections, according to a new study of 150 dark web markets and forums.
The adoption of e- and m-commerce has created new opportunities for fraudsters to falsify identities and defraud merchants, consumers, and banks out of millions.
However, preventing fraudulent transactions with fewer instances of false positives is possible by leveraging shared transaction data from a consortium of...
Do healthcare entities face a growing risk of being hit with cryptocurrency mining attacks, which have become more common in other sectors? A Tennessee hospital may be the first victim in the sector, and some security experts predict many more such incidents.
The U.S. Department of Justice, in one of its biggest-ever cybercrime disruptions, shuttered the Infraud Organization, an online forum prosecutors tied to $530 million in losses. Thirteen suspects - in Australia, France, Italy, Kosovo, Serbia, the U.K. and the U.S. - have been arrested.
A Canadian museum had multiple points of possible infiltration to protect: employees with memory sticks, phishing attacks, visitors and contractors connecting to Wi-Fi, and exhibit computers. Additionally, the museum had prevented ransomware attacks in the past, but needed to increase its level of protection.
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A malware incident at Partners HealthCare that was detected last spring but was only recently determined to have exposed patient data illustrates that confirming a data breach through a forensics investigation can be difficult and time-consuming.
A hacking team dubbed "Group 123" with apparent ties to the government of North Korea has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Flash browser plug-in, likely to hack high-value targets. Adobe has released an emergency Flash update with security fixes. Or organizations could simply stop using Flash.
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