According to research by Splunk, the past year has seen a steady increase of insider trading schemes, in which white collar criminals collaborate with black hat hackers in order to monetize valuable …
Mac “CookieMiner” Malware Aims to Gobble Crypto Funds
Researchers with Palo Alto Networks have discovered a sophisticated new strand of Mac malware that uses a combination of techniques to steal cryptocurrency from online wallets or exchange …
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Employees report 23,000 phishing incidents annually, costing $4.3 million to investigate
According to a new report by Agari on email fraud, one out of every five advanced email attacks is an account takeover-based (ATO) attack. In these attacks, threat actors take control of a legitimate …
IoT botnet used in YouTube ad fraud scheme
Security researchers with CenturyLink have released a report documenting the recent evolution of TheMoon, an internet of things (IoT) botnet that was first detected in 2014. While TheMoon was …
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Surprising ways the government shutdown actually boosted federal cybersecurity
According to a new study by Security Scorecard, the U.S. government shutdown may not have been as bad in terms of cyber security as industry experts have been claiming. The research found improvements …
DOJ moves to take down Joanap botnet operated by North Korean state hackers
In order to take down Joanap, a powerful cyberweapon operated by North Korean hackers, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will start reaching out to victims whose machines have been enslaved by the …
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Massive DDoS Attack Generates 500 Million Packets per Second
Cybersecurity firm Imperva says it has stopped a record-breaking DDoS attack against one if its clients on January 10. At the peak of the attack, the target received over 500 million packets per …
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Airbus Data Breach Exposes Employee Credentials, Professional Contact Details
The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has suffered a data breach in which threat actors have accessed data on the company's “Commercial Aircraft business” systems. The information was described by …
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eCommerce credit card fraud is nearly an inevitability
New research by Riskified on the online shopping habits and preferences of 5,000 US consumers, shows that the older consumers get, the more likely they are to fall victim to eCommerce credit card …
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Cyberattacks: China and Russia can disrupt US power networks warns intelligence report
According to this year's edition of the The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, the major cyberthreats for the US and its allies come from China and Russia. The report …