Security News

Criminal Cyberattacks Are Up. Can Automated Security Help Bring Them Down?
2018-07-26 17:26

Companies that still rely on manual processes – security tools that require frequent tuning or manual CVE patching, for example – fare worse if they are breached.

ERP applications under attack: How criminals target the crown jewels
2018-07-26 11:45

Business-critical applications running the biggest organizations in the world are under attack, according to research from Digital Shadows and Onapsis. The report shows a rise in cyberattacks on...

Criminal mastermind injects malicious script into Ethereum tracker. Their message? '1337'
2018-07-25 10:56

Etherscan XSS snafu could have been much, much worse Ethereum-tracking website Etherscan has resolved a cross-site scripting issue on its domain.…

Old Malware Gives Criminals Tricky New Choice: Ransomware or Mining
2018-07-06 19:33

The Rakhni Trojan is now giving bad actors the ability to infect victims either with a ransomware cryptor or a miner.

Former Insider Indicted for Criminal HIPAA Violations
2018-07-03 20:33

Latest Rare Example of Prosecutors Pursuing a HIPAA CaseA federal grand jury in Pennsylvania has indicted a former patient coordinator on several counts of wrongfully obtaining and disclosing the...

Cybercriminals will gravitate to criminal activity that maximizes their profit
2018-06-28 12:00

McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2018, examining the growth and trends of new malware, ransomware, and other threats in Q1 2018. McAfee Labs saw on average five new threat...

How criminals abuse IDNs to conduct malicious activities
2018-06-27 11:45

New research from Farsight Security examines the prevalence and distribution of IDN lookalike domain names, also called homographs, over a 12-month period with a focus on 466 top global brands...

So long! ‘The internet’s most inept criminal’ goes to jail
2018-06-21 14:00

The FBI took six months to track him down - what they found was a disturbed hacker with "no skills".

Malicious Docker Containers Earn Cryptomining Criminals $90K
2018-06-13 21:55

Researchers said over a dozen malicious docker images available on Docker Hub allowed hackers to earn $90,000 in cryptojacking profits.

The operations and economics of organized criminal email groups
2018-05-22 11:30

Nine of the 10 captured organized criminal email groups operate out of Nigeria, they all leverage a multitude of attack methods, and business email compromise (BEC) is far more lucrative than any...