Collaborate Disseminate
On July 27, 2021, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi, decided that his best plan would be to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison was to plead guilty. I’ve actually never seen a plea agreement with so much redacting, but we c… Continue reading Hushpuppi Pleads Guilty: Sentence Estimate? 11-14 Years
The US government and the White House like to talk tough on Ransomware. If you listen to Joe Biden, fighting Ransomware is a top priority of the US Government. He’s spent time convincing the G7, NATO, and the EU to take pledges about how earnestly th… Continue reading Levashov Walks. Russian Spam King gets slap on the wrist
On Monday (19JUL2021) President Biden announced that the US and its allies were joining together to condemn and expose that China was behind a set of unprecedented attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers conducted earlier this… Continue reading Nations come together to condemn China: APT31 and APT40
At the beginning of each calendar year, information security professionals revive the discourse surrounding tax-time phishing scams. Researchers and intelligence analysts here at Cofense™ are no exception. Each year, criminals attempt to capital… Continue reading Top Tips from the IRS for Avoiding Tax-Related Phishing Scams in 2018
Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are based on the idea that coins can be generated by causing computers to solve a difficult problem. The more CPU cycles an individual can dedicate towards the mining problem, the more likely the chance that the… Continue reading That Little Click Could Be Sending Your Browser to the Mines
As Black Friday draws near, it seems that every company with anything to sell is sending emails to advertise their specials. Consumers can expect to see emails from all sorts of major retailers: Amazon, Dell, Fry’s, Home Depot, Khol’s, Microsoft, and e… Continue reading Black Friday Spam Alert: How to Shop Safe Online this November
As the end of the year approaches, many companies are communicating with their employees about benefits and Health Savings Accounts via email. Criminals realize this and have decided to get in on the action! More consumers than ever are using HSAs as a way to save pre-tax income for future medical expenses. A report released by Devenir Research shared that, as of August 2016, 18.2 million HSA accounts currently hold $34.7 billion in assets – a 22% growth over 2015, and projects that by the end of 2018, more than $50 billion will be on deposit in HSA accounts. That’s…
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On July 22, 2016 the UK’s Office for National Statistics released crime details for the year ending March 2016. For the first time, this data included information about fraud and computer misuse offenses, which was compiled in the National Crime Survey for the first time in October 2015. While the police recorded 4.5 million offenses from March 2015 […]
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WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER ALERT! USA Network’s television show, Mr.Robot, kicked off Season 2 with a BANG! The program features the exploits of a hacker named Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) who uses the alias “Mr.Robot” to work with a team of hackers who call themselves F-Society and have as their mission the destruction of a major […]
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