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Financial services businesses are already in the sights of cybercriminals, and understanding how cyberattacks impact this sector specifically can help establish the need for improved preventative measures. At the end of last year, I highlighted how the finance and insurance…
Researchers at CloudSEK have published a report looking at fraudulent customer service phone numbers in India. The researchers found around 20,000 of these phone numbers targeting users in India. The scammers purchase SIM cards from dark web markets, then trick…
With the average cost of the most expensive successful email attack at over $1 million, it’s necessary to begin to zero in on where the material sources of risk exist to keep these attacks from succeeding. When we start talking…
Since phishing attacks need legitimacy to increase their deliverability, this latest twist shows how phishing scammers and hackers are working together to ensure phishing attacks continue. Historically, we’ve seen phishing attacks simply leverage a legitimate service (e.g., google, Microsoft 365,…
BlackBerry has published a report on a threat actor, Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, which has been operating against targets in Ecuador and Colombia since at least 2019. Its most recent activity has been directed at organizations in Colombia.…
An international cybercriminal operation responsible for millions of dollars in business email compromise (BEC) scams has finally been dismantled. According to Europol, "Five action days took place between January 2022 and 2023 in France and Israel, leading to eight house…
