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Go Phish: Cybercriminals Stick to Coronavirus and Financial Content to Fuel Phishing Schemes
We’ve reached the half-year mark and online scammers are still taking advantage of the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic. Cyber-attacks targeting both consumers and business surged worldwide, and the trend shows ...
UK Cyber Security Watchdog Receives 1 Million Suspicious Email Reports in Just Two Months
On April 21, UK government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched the highly anticipated Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) that allows Brits to report any phishing or suspicious emails they receive in ...
Pay me or I’ll cough: Bad actors bully email recipients with new Covid-19 extortion scam
Cyber criminals hit a new low this month, proving once again that they’ll go to any lengths to extort their victims. This time around, it’s not just about ruining your reputation and ...
Emotet strikes again, targeting 600 United Nations personnel
The Emotet Trojan, identified by security teams in 2014, started out as banking malware meant to steal sensitive data. Initially focused on the financial sectors, the malware later morphed, adding spamming and ...
Hackers could read users’ Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email via compromised Microsoft support account
Over the weekend Microsoft confirmed that a “limited” number of Outlook.com webmail accounts had been compromised, allowing hackers to access users’ email addresses, folder names, subject lines, and the names of other ...
Email Spam Campaign Targets U.S. Retail, Restaurant Sectors
A cybercriminal group has launched a malware campaign via personalized spear-phishing emails against large retail, restaurant and grocery chains in the United States, as well as against other organizations from the food ...
Hackers phish Butlin’s holiday camp chain, access customers’ personal data
Fabled British holiday camp chain Butlin’s has admitted that it has suffered a data breach that may have exposed details of 34,000 guests. Personal information contained within the records accessed by hackers ...
‘Password Check Required Immediately’ – most effective phishing line
Leveraging a key human trait that machines would not fall for, cybercriminals can easily manipulate or fool humans using social engineering tactics. A new study on the most effective phishing scams shows ...
Virginia Bank falls victim to two phishing scams, loses $2 million
No matter how hard security companies work on improving detection and teaching employees about insider threats and risks, corporate environments are still falling to cover the most basic and common attack vector ...
Recent Flash Zero-Day Flaw Now Exploited in Widespread Attacks
A vulnerability that was recently patched in Flash Player after being used in targeted attacks is now seeing widespread exploitation in a malicious spam campaign. The flaw was first identified in late ...
