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The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch. According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report on credential stuffing (PDF), its customers alone were deluged by 30 billion malicious login…
Continue ReadingThe Sept. 24 episode of “Task Force 7 Radio,” hosted by George Rettas, was a fast-moving survey of cyber-crime from the 1990s to today, with featured guest Robert Villanueva, former Secret Service Agent and current Executive Vice President of Q6 Cyber….
Continue ReadingReading Time: ~ 2 min. While ransomware, last year’s dominant threat, has taken a backseat to cryptomining attacks in 2018, it has by no means disappeared. Instead, ransomware has become a more targeted business model for cybercriminals, with unsecured…
Continue Reading“Technology providers of all sizes from around the world came to HANNOVER MESSE USA 2018 to demonstrate the latest Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions for the connected factory of the future,” said Larry Turner, president & CEO of Hannover F…
Continue ReadingPodcast: (Duration: 43:29 49.8MB) Subscribe: In this week’s podcast (#113): Everybody worries about hacked voting machines. But an exercise in Boston last week showed how hackers can compromise the vote without ever touching an election system. Also: O…
Continue ReadingTYSONS CORNER, Va. Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — MicroTech is proud to announce that the General Services Administration (GSA) has completed its testing and has verified the compliance of MicroTech’s billing and ordering tools, an integral function of…
Continue ReadingThe High Court in London said world-wide freezing orders (WFO) should be available to victims of cyber fraud in cases where they are pursuing claims against ‘persons unknown’. The High Court’s ruling was issued in July, but has only recently been publi…
Continue ReadingU.S.-based online fashion retailer SHEIN informed customers recently that their personal information was stolen by hackers who gained access to the company’s systems. According to SHEIN, the incident impacts roughly 6.42 million customers, who had thei…
Continue Reading. September 2018 by Fujitsu Scammers have stolen more than £500m from UK banking customers in the first half of 2018, according to new figures from industry group UK Finance. Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Head of Continuity & Resilience at Fujitsu, comments:
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Cryptocurrency mining malware has seen an increase of 86 percent in the second quarter of 2018, according to a new report from
After gaining ground the fourth quarter of 2017 to around 400,000 samples, new cryptomining malware samples grew a stunning …
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