Month: December 2019

This week’s ransomware news continues to be dominated by targeted ransomware attacks against hospitals, cities, and businesses and the new tactic of releasing victim’s data if they do not pay. […]

Three members of a cybercrime group that used the GozNym banking Trojan to steal millions from U.S. businesses were sentenced today in parallel and multi-national prosecutions in Pittsburgh and Tbilisi, Georgia. […]

Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics staff published a warning today alerting of an ongoing phishing campaign delivering emails designed to look like they’re coming from the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020)​​​​​​​. […]

Threat actors breaching company networks are deploying a cornucopia of malware over the remote desktop protocol (RDP), without leaving a trace on target hosts. […]

Scott Burns, a former employee of information and communications technology (ICT) provider Blue Chip was sentenced to 10 months in prison for taking down the computers of British airline Jet2.com Limited (aka Jet2) for over 12 hours. […]

Attackers are actively exploiting the hype around the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker movie as a bait designed to lure potential victims on fake streaming sites and steal their credit card data. […]

A Lithuanian man was sentenced today to five years of prison time after tricking Google and Facebook employees into wiring over $120 million into bank accounts he controlled as part of several business email compromise (BEC) fraud attacks spanning from 2013 to 2015. […]

Spelevo exploit kit’s operators have recently added a new infection vector as part of their attacks, attempting to social engineer potential targets into downloading and executing addition malware payloads from decoy adult sites. […]