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In a study conducted by researchers at Venafi, suspicious domains targeting 20 major retailers in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Australia were analyzed. Researchers found over 100,000 lookalike domains that use valid TLS certificates to appear safe …
If you’re looking for the most up-to-date cybercrime statistics, you’ve certainly come to the right place. (We really like our numbers around here.) For businesses and organizations, cybercrime is all encompassing — and its collective impact is stagger…
New research into domains registered with a trusted TLS certificate has found lookalike domains outnumber legitimate retails sites by more than 2:1. In a
conducted by researchers at Venafi , suspicious domains targeting 20 major retailers in the US,…
A new threat actor is using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy to deliver ransomware, backdoors, and banking Trojans through malicious attachments. Since the end of October, Proofpoint researchers detected…
From insider threats, Internet of Things insecurity, to medical device hacking, ENFUSE 2019 broke down the top privacy and security issues help desks are seeing today. It also tackle what regulatory efforts are being developed to address those threats.
Though the new malware campaigns are not customized for each organization, the threat actors appear to be more interested in businesses, IT services, manufacturing, and healthcare industries who possess critical data and can likely afford high ransom p…
Category: Last Updated: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 – by Zbigniew Banach Red team versus blue team exercises simulate real-life cyberattacks against organizations to locate weaknesses and improve information security. In this wargaming approach, the red team are …
Below find a lightly-edited transcript. Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch: Welcome back to the Threatpost podcast. I’m here today at ENFUSE in Las Vegas. And I’m joined with Kevin Golas, who leads up OpenText’s cyber security incident response team. Kevin, thank…
The principle of least privilege (POLP), also known as the “principle of least authority” is a security concept based upon limiting access to the minimum necessary for an action to be performed. Contrary to popular belief, the least privilege concept d…
Researchers have discovered a new kind of social engineering attack targeting organizations in Germany, Italy, and the US by delivering malicious payloads with finance-related lures in local languages. , the email phishing campaigns — discovered betwee…