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The year 2020 has given us a contentious U.S. election, a global economic crisis, and most notably a global pandemic. Disinformation has wreaked havoc in our ability to discern fact from truth, ransomware has been delivering ever more serious consequen… Continue reading 2021 will overburden already stressed infosec teams
Evasion techniques are used by cybercriminals to evade detection, and they are especially prevalent in the context of scripts, which on their own have legitimate uses (e.g., to automate processes on a computer system). Unfortunately, scripts can also b… Continue reading How to protect yourself from the hidden threat of evasive scripts
89% of IT professionals believe their company could be doing more to defend against cyberattacks, with 64% admitting they are not sure what AI/ML means – despite increased adoption at a global scale, Webroot reveals. The report, which reveals how globa… Continue reading What is the impact of AI and ML tools on cybersecurity?
Even the most cyber secure states didn’t score above a C average, which means there’s more work to be done Security and IT managers all over the globe have had to scramble during the last month to rearrange workforces into largely remote o… Continue reading How Cyber Secure Is Your State?
For the 2020 Webroot Threat Report, researchers analyzed samples from more than 37 billion URLs, 842 million domains, 4 billion IP addresses, 31 million active mobile apps, and 36 billion file behavior records. Phishing URLs encountered grew by 640% in… Continue reading Researchers observed a 125% increase in malware targeting Windows 7
Webroot released its annual Nastiest Malware list, shedding light on 2019’s worst cybersecurity threats. From ransomware strains and cryptomining campaigns that delivered the most attack payloads to phishing attacks that wreaked the most havoc, it’s cl… Continue reading The nastiest ransomware, phishing and botnets of 2019
1 in 50 URLs are malicious, nearly one-third of phishing sites use HTTPS and Windows 7 exploits have grown 75% since January. A new Webroot report also highlights the importance of user education, as phishing lures have become more personalized as hack… Continue reading Phishing attempts increase 400%, many malicious URLs found on trusted domains
While a majority (79%) of people say they are able to distinguish a phishing message from a genuine one, nearly half (49%) also admit to having clicked on a link from an unknown sender while at work, according to a Webroot survey. Further, nearly half … Continue reading Employees are mistakenly confident that they can spot phishing emails
DanaBot, a banking trojan that has targeted organizations in Australia, Europe, and North America, has expanded its targets in Germany as of this June in a new campaign, according to new research from Webroot. While the trojan — which steals users’ banking credentials via malicious JavaScript injects — initially began targeting Australian banks in 2018, the targets identified in this new campaign are outside of the financial sector. Webroot Advanced Threat Research Analyst Jason Davison tells CyberScoop that the targets are a range of victims in retail, including the German websites for fashion brands H&M and Esprit, along with lodging rental platform Airbnb. The campaign is primarily unleashed via spear phishing emails containing malicious links or files to download, Davison says. “Once the loader module gets downloaded and is run, it sets up persistence (the ability to stay on a device through a reboot) on the victim’s machine and then […]
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Capital One, one of the largest banks in the United States by assets, has announced that it has suffered a massive data breach affecting the personal and financial information of some 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada. Simultaneously, the … Continue reading Capital One breach: Info on 106 million customers compromised, hacker arrested