Cyber scammers are starting to use legitimate reCAPTCHA walls to disguise malicious content from email security systems, Barracuda Networks has observed. The reCAPTCHA walls prevent email security systems from blocking phishing attacks and make the phishing site more believable in the eyes of the[...]
A cybercriminal group dubbed the Florentine Banker Group launched advanced business email compromise (BEC) attacks on leading Israeli and UK financial firms, stealing $1.3 million dollars in just four separate transactions.Unlike a basic BEC where an attacker sends one or two emails posing as an[...]
Imagine installing a fancy deadbolt lock with a state-of-the-art alarm system for your front door but leaving the back door wide open. No one would do that, right? Yet many companies make a similar mistake with their cybersecurity defenses. They put Fort Knox-like security on the front end of their[...]
The volume and complexity of attacks continued to grow in the first quarter of 2020, according to Link11.There has been an increasing number of high-volume attacks in Q1 2020, with 51 attacks over 50 Gbps. The average bandwidth of attacks also rose, reaching 5,0 Gbps versus 4,3 Gbps in the same[...]
Outdated infrastructure, Internet of Things threats, the proliferation of technology, and Internet trust are among the issues that experts predict will cause the biggest problems for security pros by 2022. Businesses will face crises as attackers exploit immature technologies and unprepared victims.
As organizations go digital, so does crime. Today, cybercrime is a massive business in its own right, and criminals everywhere are clamoring to get a piece of the action as companies and consumers invest trillions to stake their claim in the digital universe.That's why the World Economic Forum's[...]
According to a new survey of senior executives, 46% of all small businesses have been the targets of a ransomware attack. And of those companies that have been hit with a ransomware attack, almost three-quarters (73%) have paid a ransom.Forty-three percent of small businesses paid between $10,000[...]
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered an ongoing new Magecart skimmer campaign that so far has successfully compromised at least 19 different e-commerce websites to steal payment card details of their customers.According to a report published today and shared with The Hacker News, RiskIQ[...]
International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years.The incident exposed guests' personal information such as contact details (name, mailing address, email address, and[...]
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and other kinds of malware, including multi-functional remote access tools (RATs) and cryptominers.Named "Vollgar" after the[...]
