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Social media giant Twitter is sharing updates coming out of the second day of investigations into this week’s hack of high-profile accounts by Bitcoin scammers. Avid readers will recall that Twitter recently fell victim to a massive social engine… Continue reading Twitter Releases New Details About Recent Hack of High-Profile Accounts
Over a third of organizations are seeing email-based attacks hit their inbox daily, new data shows. IT professionals now say they need to remediate an email-based attack every day –including suspending compromised email accounts.
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Half of infosec professionals in a recent Bitdefender study revealed that their organization doesn’t have a contingency plan in place, or didn’t know if they did, for a situation like COVID-19 or a similar scenario.
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Video conferencing software Zoom is again in the spotlight over an alleged critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take over the victim’s computer and all data on it. Discovered by an unnamed security researcher and reported to Acr… Continue reading Zoom Zero-Day Flaw Allegedly Allows Full Takeover of Windows PCs
Most IT professionals say employees are allowed to use personal devices for work. And while the use of personal devices at work is growing rapidly, many are unprepared to balance productivity with security, new data shows.
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A U.S. court order has allowed Microsoft to seize control of key domains controlled by fraudsters to halt criminal activity after an increase in scams targeting users of Office 365. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia this week… Continue reading Court Lets Microsoft Seize Web Domains Used in COVID-19 Phishing/BEC Scams and Fraud
A prolific Kazakh hacker known as ”fxmsp” has been charged with several US federal crimes for allegedly hacking the computer networks of a broad array of entities, including businesses, educational institutions, and governments throughout t… Continue reading Kazakh Hacker Known as ‘fxmsp’ Faces 45 Years Behind Bars
Given enough time, employees – especially those working remotely – will click on a link to a potentially dangerous website. But how much time? According to recent data, less than an hour.
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The BBC claims to have obtained proof of ransom negotiations between the NetWalker gang and the University of California San Francisco almost a week after the college publicly reported on the costly security incident. Readers might recall that NetWalke… Continue reading BBC Publishes Screenshots Allegedly Depicting Ransomware Negotiations Between NetWalker and UCSF
New data shows a sharp increase in monthly business email compromise (BEC) attacks focused on invoice or payment fraud.
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