Security News

The West African cybercriminal ecosystem is unlike any other (Help Net Security)
2017-03-09 21:15

While there is still not an actual underground marketplace, cybercrime is pervasive in the West African region. Specifically, scamming operations. The peculiarities of the ecosystem According to a...

With 1.2 million phishing attacks, 2016 was a success for cybercriminals (Help Net Security)
2017-03-01 13:00

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for phishing in history. The total number of phishing attacks in 2016 was 1,220,523. This number represents the...

Duqu Malware Techniques Used by Cybercriminals (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-16 16:28

Duqu 2.0 is a really impressive piece of malware, related to Stuxnet and probably written by the NSA. One of its security features is that it stays resident in its host's memory without ever...