On Thursday morning, millions of Internet users all over the world woke up to the most audacious social engineering campaign ever. Right in front of their eyes, spammers hijacked the Twitter accounts of dozens of global celebrities, and live-tweeted bogus Bitcoin exchange deals with impunity. The...
A survey of UK CTOs, CIOs, and CISOs has found that 99% of UK organisations suffered security breaches in the last twelve months with attack volumes increased significantly in the period. The survey, conducted by Opinion Matters and commissioned by VMware Carbon Black, gauged responses from...
Security researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that uses malicious emails from legitimate SurveyMonkey domains in a bid to bypass security filters. The phishing emails in question are sent from a real SurveyMonkey domain but crucially have a different reply-to domain, according to Abnormal Security. “Within...
Just 5% of Brits are able to recognize all scam emails and texts, a study from Computer Disposals Limited has found. Scam emails purporting to be from Facebook were shown to be most likely to trick people. Additionally, participants found it harder to spot scams via SMS messages compared...
Microsoft has been approved to take control of malicious web domains which were used to send phishing messages regarding COVID-19. According to a blog by Tom Burt, corporate vice-president of customer security and trust at Microsoft, said this was part of disrupting operations which were taking advantage...
“Cyber-crime has been identified as one of the biggest criminal threats to British business and the British economy, with available estimates suggesting the cost could be billions of pounds each year… A large proportion of the public and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) vastly underestimate...
Researchers have once again spotted crooks using calendar invitations to mount phishing attacks. The Cofense Phishing Defense Center found the attack in enterprise email environments protected by Proofpoint and Microsoft, it announced last week. The phishing scam uses iCalendar, which is a media type that lets users store and exchange...
Over one million North American students have had their data exposed after a popular online learning platform left it in a publicly accessible cloud database, according to vpnMentor. Researchers from the firm claimed that the Elasticsearch database belonging to provider OneClass was left completely unsecured. The trove...
More than a third of businesses do not have a ransomware emergency plan in place, or are not aware if one exists within their company. According to research from Ontrack of 484 organizations, 39% either did not have or were not unaware of a ransomware strategy, while 26% admitted...
Twitter has contacted its business clients to warn them of a potential breach of their data. It said that email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of card numbers may have been accessed by others, thanks to a technology snafu which exposed the information. It...
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