New analysis highlights just how prevalent ransomware attacks are today, how material the impacts are, whether organizations get their data back, and exactly how these attacks start. I love to see reports on the current state of attacks; it gives…
Scammers continue to get creative when it comes to current events - and this new scam is no exception. Fraudsters are impersonating a close ally to Vladmir Putin, President of Russia, with an fake email from Viktor Zubkov. Viktor served…
The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany's federal criminal police, raided three homes on Thursday, September 29th, in the course of an investigation of a cyber criminal operation the BKA says netted approximately €4,000,000 from its victims by using phishing tactics. Two suspects…
Researchers at Trend Micro warn that the social engineering potential of deepfakes is becoming an increasing concern. Deepfakes have already been successfully used in attacks, and Trend Micro believes this is just the beginning. The researchers explain that every photo…
Setting a record for both highest count and share in volume with other types of phishing scams, response-based attacks are at their highest since 2020 and are continuing to grow. Despite a lot of focus on credential theft, cybercriminals are…
Researchers at SentinelOne have warned that North Korea’s Lazarus Group is using phony Crypto.com job offers to distribute macOS malware. The researchers aren’t sure how the lures are being distributed, but they suspect the attackers are sending spear phishing messages…
