social engineering

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The London, United Kingdom-based company leverages machine learning to prevent attacks that rely on email and social engineering. It describes its solution as “human layer security.” The company builds behavioral models for all employees and uses them to automatically detect security threats. Furthermore, by notifying employees of these issues, it aims to help improve individual…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Over the past few months, hackers have been trying to surreptitiously backdoor the computer systems of a number of security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed on Monday. The hackers’ tactics The hackers, who Google TAG believes are backed by the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Panic and confusion about the recent coronavirus outbreak spurred threat actors to launch several malware campaigns across the world, relying on a tried-and-true method to infect people’s machines: fear. Cybercriminals targeted users in Japan with an Emotet campaign that included malicious Word documents that allegedly contained information about coronavirus prevention. Malware embedded into PDFs, MP4s,…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s busy – at work and at home. That includes cybercriminals, too. In fact, the holiday season is when busy, distracted people tend to be especially vulnerable to phishing attacks. Just one click on a phishing link in a realistic-looking email or package shipment notice from even the savviest…

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

BEC scammers actively targeting Fortune 500 companies

Nigerian scammers are targeting Fortune 500 companies, and have already stolen millions of dollars from some of them, IBM Security researchers have found. Their strategy is well known: they take over or impersonate a trusted user’s email account to target companies that conduct international wire transfers, and trick accounts payable personnel into wiring money into…