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Account Takeover Attacks Become a Phishing Fave

Why spoof an email address for phishing messages when you can hijack an account and send them from the real one? That's the theory behind account takeover (ATO) attacks, and it's one being put into practice in a growing number of criminal cases.

Phished Credentials Caused Twice as Many Breaches Than Malware in the Past Year

Personal device use for remote work poses the biggest security risk to organisations safeguarding their increasingly mobile and cloud-based IT environment, according to a new survey of 100 UK-based senior IT security professionals.

Analysis of Half-a-Billion Emails Reveals Malware-less Email Attacks are on the Rise

FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to an inbox. Their report also found that 1 in every 101 emails had malicious intent. When compared to the previous six-month[...]

DDoS Attack Frequency Grows 40%, Low Volume Attacks Dominate

The frequency of DDoS attacks have once again risen, this time by 40% year on year, according to Corero Network Security.

New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs

Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption.

Supermicro Servers Fixed After Insecure Firmware Updating Discovered

Researchers have sounded a warning about the security of Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) – a critical component that datacentres depend on to manage servers.

Card Skimming Malware Found on Thousands of Magento-Based Sites

A card skimming operation has compromised 7,339 Magento-based online stores, allowing the attackers to quietly slurp payment card info as it’s being entered by customers.

Attackers Employ Social Engineering to Distribute New Banking Trojan

Unknown attackers have begun using a sophisticated, new banking Trojan, dubbed CamuBot, to steal money from the business customers of several major banks in Brazil, a country sometimes used as a testing ground for financial malware that is about to be launched globally.

More Organisations Moving From Proof of Concept to Initial SD-WAN Projects

One in five global companies has implemented an initial software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) project, while many more are at the proof of concept stage.

EU Telecoms Suffered 169 Major Security Incidents in 2017

ENISA, EU’s agency for network and information security, has released a report on major telecom security incidents that occurred in the EU in 2017. About the report