What does it look like when an attacker accesses your network, and how can you mitigate the threat before it becomes a crisis?
This eBook reveals the various ways a real-life attack played out within the environment of a healthcare business associate. It documents how the attack happened and the moves and...
Suspected Chinese APT groups exploited a 17-year-old Microsoft Office vulnerability in May to launch malware attacks against foreign government officials who attended a G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. Threat actors targeted officials from France, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore and Australia.
Understanding and Defending Against AI-Generated Email Attacks
ChatGPT. Google Bard. DeepFaceLab.
Generative AI is all the rage, and for good reason. What used to take hours can now be done in minutes, and what used to take minutes can be done in seconds. Which is great for productivity in the right hands.
But...
Ukrainian cyber defenders say they've identified a cyberespionage campaign active since mid-2022 that gained unauthorized access to "several dozen" computers. A government spokesperson said Tuesday the campaign targets government agencies and media organizations.
Pretexting incidents, a social engineering technique that manipulates victims into divulging information, have nearly doubled, representing 50% of all social engineering attacks, according to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed more than 16,312 security incidents.
Banks are facing unprecedented challenges in securing their digital ecosystems while maintaining cost efficiency. With cybercriminals increasingly targeting the financial industry, banks face risks to their reputation as trustworthy partners. With data breach costs averaging nearly $6 million per incident, banks...
Losses to fraud reported by Britain's financial services sector exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022, declining by 8% from 2021, says trade association UK Finance. About 40% of losses tied to authorized push payment fraud, in which victims get tricked into transferring funds to attackers.
Possibly Russian hackers likely compromised the official email address of Ukraine's embassy in Tajikistan to send phishing emails to organizations located in central Asia, Israel and India. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine tracks the campaign as UAC-0063.
The mastermind behind a criminal website that sold tools for scammers who defrauded victims globally of more than 115 million euros received a 13-year, four-month prison sentence in the United Kingdom just months after law enforcement seized the site.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is “one of the most financially damaging online crimes” according to the FBI. It is a cunning form of email impersonation that, when combined with human error, can be incredibly disruptive and damaging. Phishing and Account Takeover (ATO) attacks target employees and trick them into...
While historically the origin of most business email compromise (BEC) attacks has been West Africa, residing in Nigeria certainly isn’t a requirement for BEC attackers. Indeed, the subject of this report is a sophisticated threat group based in Israel.
The group is unique in that they impersonate executives and...
While the concept of zero trust has been around for years and has been adopted by the federal government, most small- and medium-sized businesses still don't know how to implement zero trust, said Chase Cunningham. But progress is being made - with a big focus on automation.
Pre-RSA social media gaming predicted it. Many predicted they would loath it. And it happened: Discussions at this year's RSA conference again and again came back to generative artificial intelligence - but with a twist. Even some of the skeptics professed their conversion to the temple of AI.
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