Security News > 2017 > April

Know your enemy: Defining the new taxonomy of malicious emails (Help Net Security)
2017-04-27 15:00

Just as it is the default tool for most businesses, email’s capacity for rapid, mass communication has made it a favourite instrument of criminals. As a result, malicious emails have become a...

Cybercrime can come in any shape or size, and not always the form you’d expect (Help Net Security)
2017-04-27 14:26

Cyberespionage is now the most common type of attack seen in manufacturing, the public sector and now education, warns the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report. Much of this is due to...

Attack Method Highlights Weaknesses in Microsoft CFG (Threatpost)
2017-04-27 14:02

As Microsoft hardens its defenses with tools such as Control Flow Guard, researchers at Endgame are preparing for the reality of Counterfeit Object-Oriented Programming attacks to move from...

Modern threat landscape: Seismic shifts in motivation and focus (Help Net Security)
2017-04-27 13:30

Cybercriminals revealed new levels of ambition in 2016 – a year marked by extraordinary attacks, including multi-million dollar virtual bank heists and overt attempts to disrupt the U.S. electoral...