Airplane parts manufacturer ASCO suffered a ransomware attack on June 7 that prompted the firm to shut down production facilities in Belgium, Canada, Germany and the US for at least one week. The …
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A new Valimail report shows that threat actors are distributing a staggering 3.4 billion inauthentic emails every single day, representing 1.2% of all email. This is happening even though 80% of all …
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English rock band Radiohead was recently targeted by cyber extortionists who had stolen 18 hours of private recordings from the group's 1997 album "OK Computer" after breaking into a digital archive …
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Security researchers with Morphisec have detected a new campaign by FIN8, a notorious hacking group that attacks organizations for financial gain. This time FIN8 is going after companies in the …
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United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was the targeted of a “a malicious cyber-attack” resulting in the theft of data belonging to thousands of travelers entering and exiting the US. The …
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For over six years, law enforcement agencies in the US, Europe and other parts of the world have been cracking down on digital marketplaces where narcotics and other illegal goods are being exchanged. …
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Auburn Food Bank, a non-profit in Auburn, Washington, suffered a ransomware attack on June 5. All of the charity's computers were encrypted after being infected with a ransomware strain called …
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The FBI has issued a warning about the use of TLS-secured websites in phishing campaigns. In the context of phishing awareness training, users are usually told to avoid websites that do not use HTTPS …
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A new report by Foregenix indicates that reliance on the highly popular open-source e-commerce platform Magento can put small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) at risk of cyberattacks. A whopping 87% of …
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Even though the concept of spam is about 40 years old and phishing campaigns have been around for over 30 years, email-based attacks remain a massive problem for corporations and individual users …
