A 27-nation joint investigation in Africa led to the arrest of 11 cybercrooks accused of defrauding $800,000 from victims across the world. The authorities also took down nearly 200,000 elements of malware infrastructure used by the fraudsters for phishing and other scams.
Before the newly spotted AxLocker ransomware crypto-locks systems, it steals Discord tokens, which can be sold on cybercrime markets. Among Discord's many users are cryptocurrency and NFT enthusiasts, and experts say the stolen credentials facilitate attempts to socially engineer them.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday charged 10 individuals with using business email compromise and money laundering schemes to target public and private insurers. These schemes targeted Medicare, state Medicaid programs, private health insurers and numerous other victims.
User education is vital to boosting the detection rate of phishing emails or social engineering scams that could lead to data breaches or ransomware infestations. Technology alone can't make websites or email inboxes safe since both are business-critical for all users, says ID Agent's Amelia Paro.
Cyberattackers love to strike on weekends and holidays - that's not news. What is news: These attacks cost more than weekday incidents, and they take a heavy toll on defenders. Cybereason's Sam Curry shares insight from the new study "Organizations at Risk: Ransomware Attackers Don’t Take Holidays."
Join us for an informative webinar session as we dive into the hard truth of phishing attacks. Phishing has evolved to be more precise and deceptive than ever before, with the influx of mobile devices, screen sizes and many other sophisticated schemes tricking users into divulging information that can compromise...
Cybercrime is always evolving as threat actors find new ways to infiltrate organizations, steal money, and cause damage. So what should you prepare for in 2023?
Join this webinar with Crane Hassold, Director of Threat Intelligence at Abnormal Security, where he’ll dive into the trends we saw in 2022 and provide...
The shift to remote work during COVID-19 has prompted hackers to dramatically boost phishing attacks. The pandemic has led to users reading more corporate email on personal devices and opening messages while distracted by children or pets, increasing the chances they'll click on something malicious.
Insider threats have risen 44% over the past two years. These threats can extend to a number of roles from temporary workers and contract staff to IT administrators, individual contributors, lawyers, auditors, third-party contractors, and employees both current and past... all of them can turn into a malicious...
Digital twins provide a powerful capability for the emulation of networks, enabling data-driven decision making processes. Modern threat deception and network digital twins can accurately model the impact of cyberattacks, as well as analysis, system testing and hardening, and training for each threat scenario.
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A Georgia-based home health and hospice provider will pay $425,000 to Massachusetts to settle litigation stemming from a 2020 breach affecting about 166,000 individuals nationwide. The agreement comes shortly after Aveanna Healthcare settled a proposed class action lawsuit in federal district court.
When you break down a cyber attack, you find patterns and actions that are commonplace. Deception technology can halt threat actors at every stage, even pre-breach and during lateral movement and help you fight cyber attacks, every step of the way.
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Deception technology seems to be oriented towards high-maturity organizations, but the truth is it can offer security benefits to almost any size of company. Nowadays, even small or local businesses are targeted by threat actors. Even worse, these businesses are often less prepared and have fewer recourses when it...
In 2021, there was a 1,318% increase in ransomware attacks among financial services from both internal and external attacks. Growing cyber fraud, a mobile attack surface, the emergence of cryptocurrency, and a move toward third-party payment partners—all create new cybersecurity challenges that demand powerful...
Cybercrime syndicate Robin Banks is back with a new cookie-stealing feature that cybercriminals can purchase as an add-on to the phishing kit in order to bypass multi-factor authentication in attacks and to attract more sophisticated, persistent actors set on compromising specific targets.
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