social engineering attack

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cybercriminals are using last week’s CrowdStrike outage as a vehicle for social engineering attacks against the security vendor’s customers. In the hours after the event that grounded planes, shuttered stores, closed down medical facilities, and more, national cybersecurity agencies in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia all reported follow-on phishing activity by petty criminals. That…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

Serving articles about the Perl programming language since 1997 and managed by The Perl Foundation, the domain started pointing to a parked site at the end of January, with evidence suggesting connections to sites distributing malware. The issue, some of those involved with maintaining the site said at the time, was related to an account…