Aggregated honeypot data, over a six-month period, showed that more than 50% of the attacks focused on defense evasion, according to Aqua Security. Threat actors avoid detection These...
In this Help Net Security video, Charl van der Walt, Head of Security Research at Orange Cyberdefense, discusses cyber extortion attacks and their expansion to new regions....
The world of cybercrime is moving quickly. Threat actors, ransomware gangs, malware developers, and others are increasingly and rapidly moving off of the “traditional” dark web (Tor sites)...
A joint investigation supported by Europol has led to the dismantling of a Franco-Israeli criminal gang involved in large-scale CEO fraud (also known as BEC scams). The...
Cybersecurity professionals are frustrated over how much time and attention they must devote to API security and worried that their defenses still need to be improved, according to...
Ransomware gangs extorted from victims about $456.8 million throughout 2022, a drop of roughly 40% from the record-breaking $765 million recorded in the previous two years....
Less sophisticated fraud — in which doctored identity documents are readily spotted — has jumped 37% in 2022, according to Onfido. Fraudsters can scale these attacks...
The number of DDoS attacks we see around the globe is on the rise, and that trend is likely to continue throughout 2023, according to Corero. We expect...
The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) in British Columbia has announced that it was the target of a ransomware attack that impacted its operations. CMMC, partly...
The third quarter of 2022, APWG observed 1,270,883 total phishing attacks — is the worst quarter for phishing that APWG has ever observed. The total for August 2022...
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