The US FBI has warned that scammers on LinkedIn are a “significant threat,” CNBC reports. Sean Ragan told CNBC in an interview that cryptocurrency scams have been particularly widespread recently. “This type of fraudulent activity is significant, and there are…
New testimony to U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Cybersecurity by Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer sheds light on AI-powered cyberattacks. Cyberattacks are a continually-developing process of threat actors and gangs learning from their successes and failures to identify new…
Security researchers have discovered a cunning PDF-based phishing attack that leverages social engineering and PDF prompt specifics to trick users into opening malicious Office docs. At this point, every organization should already know that any kind of Office doc sent…
Cybercriminals are continuing to bypass the use of malware in favor of response-based and credential-centric social engineering attacks, according to new data from Agari and PhishLabs. Malware-based attacks certainly are not dead, as threat actors need to gain control over…
Big picture, security professionals worry about how to defend their organizations against increasingly sophisticated attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities or nation-state attackers, but their day-to-day security concerns appear to be far more prosaic. According to Dark Reading's "The State of Malware…
Law enforcement agencies around the world have arrested about 2,000 people and seized $50 million in a sweeping operation crackdown of social engineering and other scam operations around the globe. In the latest action in the ongoing "First Light", an…
