New data analyzed by NCC Group’s Research Intelligence and Fusion Team highlights a massive uptick in the number of ransomware attacks, further establishing it as the number one security threat. The rise in ransomware has been a consistent theme this…
Over 2.9 Billion email-based threats were detected in the first half of 2021. Business Email Compromise, obfuscation, and living off the land reigned, according to new data from Zix. We’ve seen massive spikes before in the number of ransomware and…
Police in Romania, the Netherlands, and Ireland have arrested and charged twenty-three people accused of conducting sophisticated social engineering attacks. The organized crime group used phishing sites that purported to sell bogus goods, and raked in around one-million euros. “A…
Researchers at Intel 471 have observed cybercriminals outsourcing talent for business email compromise (BEC) attacks. This tactic lowers the bar of entry for BEC attacks, which are extremely effective at raking in large amounts of money. “In February, an actor…
More than a quarter of security leaders in the UK say remote-working employees either circumvented or purposely turned off security tools and services, and a third admit compromising their organisation’s security to some degree in order to facilitate the practice,…
Researchers at Microsoft have observed a widespread phishing campaign that’s abusing open redirectors to fool users into visiting credential-harvesting pages. Open redirects are often used for legitimate purposes, such as tracking click rates. However, they can also be abused to…
