Internet-enabled crime has surged during the pandemic, with more than $4.2 billion in losses reported by victims to U.S. authorities in 2020. The most lucrative type of crime continues to be business email compromise scams, which last year accounted for at least $1.8 billion in losses, the FBI reports.
The White House on Wednesday unveiled the formation of a Unified Coordination Group to lead the government's response to attacks exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers.
The Florida teen whom prosecutors call the mastermind behind last year's hack of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to wage a cryptocurrency scam pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to serve three years in a juvenile facility.
A malvertising campaign that purports to offer Telegram's desktop app for Windows is persisting. A security researcher based in Switzerland, who nearly fell for the ruse, takes a deep dive into the campaign.
From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of global attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as organizations race to install patches.
Hacking incidents - including ransomware attacks, phishing scams and episodes involving vendors - are still the dominant culprits in major health data breaches being reported to federal regulators so far this year. Why?
A new malware spam email campaign is delivering the NanoCore remote access Trojan as a malicious Adobe icon to infect its victims, a new report by security firm Trustwave finds. The malware is designed to steal passwords and emails.
An ongoing spear-phishing campaign by the threat group TA800 is distributing a new malware loader based on the Nim programming language that's designed to help avoid detection, according to the cybersecurity company Proofpoint.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features cybercrime deterrence lessons learned from the disruption of the Emotet botnet operation. Also featured: An update on attacks tied to Microsoft Exchange flaw exploits; a discussion of the need to update business continuity plans.
Serious vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange have been exploited by at least 10 APT groups that have been collectively been hitting thousands of companies over the last three months, including prior to when Microsoft was first alerted to the flaws and issued a patch, security researchers warn.
Police say they have disrupted Sky ECC - a global encrypted communications network allegedly used by numerous criminals to plan their operations - and made numerous arrests. Authorities say starting in February, they "unlocked" 3 million messages exchanged daily by the service's 170,000 users.
Computer security researchers have acquired an enormous list of compromised email servers from the perpetrators of the mass Microsoft Exchange compromises. But a big question looms: How bad is this situation going to get?
Microsoft is warning users of its Azure cloud platform that hackers are using several "living off the land" attack techniques to evade security measures, escalate privileges and deploy cryptominers. The software giant released a threat detection and mitigation strategy for the platform.
Russian hackers apparently weren't the only ones targeting SolarWinds customers. An attack last year by the Spiral hacking group, believed to be based in China, against one organization used malware that targeted a vulnerability in SolarWinds' Orion software, according to the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit.
Traditionally, software development training falls short on security. And as enterprises embrace the “shift left” movement, that gap puts them at risk. Veracode’s Dave Ferguson discusses the gap and how Veracode’s new Security Labs was developed to fill it.
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