The shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in mobile phishing campaigns, with attackers targeting remote workers whose devices lack adequate security protections, according to the security firm Lookout. Many of these campaigns are designed to steal users' banking credentials.
Fraudsters are using fake VPN update alerts to target remote workers in an effort to steal their Microsoft Office 365 credentials, according to the security firm Abnormal Security.
Mark Johnson, chair of The Risk Management Group, demonstrates techniques that fraudsters use to search for victims online and describes ways to detect fraud schemes.
Thousands of unpatched Exim email servers are potentially vulnerable to a critical flaw that the NSA says Russian-backed hackers are attempting to exploit, according to the security firm RiskIQ, which also warns of two other Exim vulnerabilities that should be patched.
Not all data breaches are what they might seem, and not all leakers are who they might claim to be. Take the doxing of the Minneapolis Police Department, supposedly by Anonymous hacktivists: The leaked employee information was almost certainly culled from old breaches. So who did it, and why?
How has the fraud landscape in the financial sector changed in Bangladesh in recent weeks, and how are banks mitigating the risks? Ashraful Alam, a security official at Shimanto Bank, addresses the trends.
Jeremy Grant has spent more than two decades championing the cause of secure digital identities. But as the COVID-19 pandemic has created a remote workforce of unprecedented scale seemingly overnight, are current approaches to securing the identity management and attestation practice up to the challenge?
A "zero trust" framework can help organizations better define their access control strategies and ramp up authentication, says Vishal Salvi, global CISO and head of cybersecurity at Infosys Ltd., a multinational outsourcing company.
The developers behind TrickBot have updated it to run from an infected device's memory to help better avoid detection, according to researchers at Palo Alto Network's Unit 42. The use of this malware has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A New York City man is facing federal charges after FBI agents arrested him at John F. Kennedy Airport with a PC allegedly containing thousands of stolen credit card numbers. Prosecutors also believe the suspect used bitcoin to launder illicit funds.
Ransomware-wielding attackers are typically breaking into victims' networks using remote desktop protocol access, phishing emails or malware that's sometimes used in drive-by attacks against browsers, experts warn, advising organizations to make sure they have the right defenses in place.
A Russian government-backed hacking group that's been tied to a series of cyberespionage campaigns has been quietly exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Exim email servers since 2019, the U.S. National Security Agency warns in an alert.
A recently revamped version of the Valak strain of malware is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in the U.S. and Germany, according to recent research from Cybereason. The malware has been redesigned to act as an information stealer that can extract corporate data.
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