The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were briefly taken over on Sunday evening by unidentified hacker(s) who posted content related to cryptocurrency and NFTs. The situation has now been resolved, but the U.K. Ministry of Defense says investigation is ongoing.
Ukrainian authorities arrested nine individuals for the theft of about $3.4 million from 5,000 Ukrainians via more than 400 phishing links. Cybercrime gang members allegedly obtained access to bank accounts under the guise of facilitating social safety net payments from the European Union.
For the seventh year in a row, business email compromise produced the largest losses of any type of cybercrime, according to Steve Dougherty of the U.S. Secret Service. He says organizations need to build and maintain relationships with law enforcement agencies before an attack happens.
"Credential phishing is off the charts," says Tonia Dudley of Cofense. She discusses the challenge for organizations to strike a balance between having the right controls in place to block malicious emails and stopping the business from receiving legitimate emails.
A new Android malware that can steal financial data, credentials, crypto wallets, personal data and cookies; bypass multifactor authentication codes; and remotely control infected devices is targeting online banking customers and financial institutions, cybersecurity researchers at F5 Labs say.
Phishing is no longer restricted to just emails. As attackers broaden their arsenal, businesses today also need to be on the lookout for impersonation attempts via SMS text messages or voice calls, says Roger Grimes, a data-driven defense evangelist at KnowBe4.
Several major email breaches reported by healthcare entities in recent days and weeks have affected the health data of nearly 300,000 individuals. Experts say the incidents highlight the ongoing challenges many organization face involving phishing attacks and similar email compromises.
A recently identified Chinese hacking group dubbed Aoqin Dragon has been targeting government, education and telecommunication organizations in Southeast Asia and Australia since 2013 as part of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, according to research from SentinelLabs.
A phishing campaign used stolen credentials to log into Facebook user accounts and send links leading to phishing pages to the victims' friends to harvest their credentials. Researchers detail the evasion techniques the threat actor allegedly used to likely make millions from the scam.
Digital transformation and the rapid rise of fintech companies have rapidly changed the behaviour of merchants and consumers alike, resulting in a huge rise in digital payment methods and remote channels. But with greater convenience and speed comes risk. Retail and e-commerce businesses are seeing a rise in fraud,...
Memo to IT administrators: Don't store data in cloud in an unsecure manner. Security researchers at Secureworks have found more than 1,200 cloud-based, unsecured Elasticsearch databases that attackers wiped, leaving only a ransom note demanding Bitcoin in return for their restoration.
Police in Nigeria this week arrested a 37-year-old man who's been charged with masterminding "a criminal syndicate tied to massive business email compromise and phishing campaigns," Interpol says. But with known BEC losses last year exceeding $2.4 billion, will the arrest have a noticeable impact?
Financial services firms lose an average of $18.5 million per year through malicious activity like leaked credentials, payment fraud, money laundering, fake account registration, loyalty abuse, and more. Fraud prevention depends on effective intelligence gathering, and few firms have the tools or personnel to...
The new Expel Quarterly Threat Report provides data on what we’re seeing,
detection opportunities, and resilience recs to help protect your organization.
We’ll dive into the trends in this report, based on incidents the Expel security
operations center (SOC) team identified through investigations into...
The new Expel Quarterly Threat Report provides data on what we’re seeing,
detection opportunities, and resilience recs to help protect your organization.
We’ll dive into the trends in this report, based on incidents the Expel security
operations center (SOC) team identified through investigations into...
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