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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) identified ransomware as one of 2016’s top threats, but a relatively small number of attacks were reported. Continue reading Few Victims Reporting Ransomware Attacks to FBI
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Microsoft’s XP patches, Hidden Cobra, a Nigerian BEC campaign, MacRansom, and more. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, June 16, 2017
A Kaspersky Lab report on Thursday said an especially potent Nigerian Business Email Compromise campaign has stolen sensitive data from over 500 companies in 50 countries. Continue reading Nigerian BEC Scams Hit 500 Companies in 50 Countries
A Kaspersky Lab report on Thursday said an especially potent Nigerian Business Email Compromise campaign has stolen sensitive data from over 500 companies in 50 countries. Continue reading Nigerian BEC Scams Hit 500 Companies in 50 Countries
Southern Oregon University has announced that it is the latest organisation to fall victim to a business email compromise attack, after fraudsters simply tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under the frauds… Continue reading How a single email stole $1.9 million from Southern Oregon University
The FBI says Business Email Compromise scams are growing at astronomical rates, and businesses have lost $5.3 billion since 2013; $346 million in the U.S. alone in the second half of 2016. Continue reading Business Email Compromise Losses Up 2,370 Percent Since 2015
A group of email hackers set off a chain of events that cost a couple the contract on their new home.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Email hackers cost couple their new home
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| The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use of really dumb attacks.
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Victims of whaling attack not named, but it’s not the first time a big multinational has been targeted, and it won’t be the last Continue reading Man charged with $100m ‘whaling’ attack on two US tech giants
Researchers from Dell SecureWorks infiltrated a Nigerian business email spoofing and business email compromise operation, shutting down a number of money mule accounts in the process. Continue reading Turning Tables on Nigerian Business Email Scammers