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Cybercrime can come in any shape or size, and not always the form you’d expect

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cyberespionage is now the most common type of attack seen in manufacturing, the public sector and now education, warns the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report. Much of this is due to the high proliferation of propriety research, prototypes and confidential personal data, which are hot-ticket items for cybercriminals. Nearly 2,000 breaches were analyzed in…

Vulnerabilities

Fake LinkedIn emails phishing job seekers

Issued by: Help Net Security

The scammers are trying to impersonate the popular employment-oriented social networking service, but careful users will immediately spot many things that point to the email being fake: The email sender address that has nothing to do with LinkedIn The lack of certain design elements and the “unsubscribe” footer usually contained in LinkedIn emails The email…

Network Security

Most organizations were victims of business email compromise in 2016

Issued by: Help Net Security

Nearly three quarters of corporate treasury and finance professionals said their companies were victims of payments fraud last year, according to the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP). This is the highest percentage since the survey debuted in 2005 and comes after a dramatic increase in 2015. Check fraud and business email compromise are both on…

Vulnerabilities

Tax season security tips: Protect yourself from cybercrime

Issued by: Help Net Security

Between December 2016 and February 2017, IBM X-Force researchers saw a 6,000 percent increase in tax-related spam emails. The researchers see this increase and other factors as evidence that cybercriminals are not slowing down their attacks in the days leading up to Tax Day 2017. IBM’s analysis found that historically 54 million of Americans who…

Malware & Threats

Corporate Office 365 users hit with clever phishing attack

Issued by: Help Net Security

Corporate Office 365 users are being targeted by phishers using a clever new trick to bypass email filters and the default security protections of the Microsoft service. The attack comes in the form of fake emails, and the trick makes the user to see one URL in the link, anti-phishing filters another, and the actual…

Malware & Threats

Zcash mining software covertly installed on victims’ machines

Issued by: Help Net Security

Software “mining” the recently established Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency is being foisted upon unsuspecting users, Kaspersky Lab warns. The actual software is not illegal, and not technically malware – it is meant to be used by individuals who are willing to dedicate their machine(s) and pay for the increased electricity usage that accompanies cryptocurrency mining.

Malware & Threats

Encryption ransomware hits record levels

Issued by: Help Net Security

The amount of phishing emails containing a form of ransomware grew to 97.25 percent during the third quarter of 2016 up from 92 percent in Q1. PhishMe’s Q3 2016 Malware Review identified three major trends previously recorded throughout 2016, but have come to full fruition in the last few months:

Vulnerabilities

Fake executive social media accounts threaten enterprises

Issued by: Help Net Security

New research has uncovered numerous duplicative Twitter and LinkedIn accounts among Fortune 500 leaders, raising concerns about potential security vulnerabilities. Analysts at BrandProtect reviewed profiles for the 54 CEOs at Fortune 500 companies using Twitter and the 187 CEOs using LinkedIn. Of these CEOs, 19 percent were represented online by multiple Twitter accounts, while 9…

Malware & Threats

Phishing Scams as a Service? Thieves Make It Easier To Steal Passwords

Issued by: CSO

It used to be that hacking required technical prowess to create malware. Now it’s becoming possible for non-technical people with criminal intent to create a malware attack, and these service providers are making it easy. These types of attacks are being offered as malware as a service. It allows malware developers to sell their malicious…