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2021 Social Engineering Attacks: A Look Back
2021 Highlights 2021 has been a year full of everything from Kim and Kayne getting divorced, to a plethora of new social engineering attacks. Unlike the former, the latter issue ...
Leading Indicators Foreshadow COVID-19 Vaccine Scams
Scammers are readying themselves to profit from fear, uncertainty and the misfortune of others ...
COVID-19 Exacerbated Existing Cybercrime Patterns, Europol Says
Europol has published its seventh Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), the agency’s annual cybercrime report containing updates on the latest trends and effects of cybercrime in the European Union and beyond ...
A Third of Internet Users Are Actively Targeted by COVID-19 Fraud
32% of consumers say they have been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19, with phishing emerging as the world’s top digital fraud scheme related to the pandemic, according to TransUnion, the ...
Two Chinese Hackers Face 40 Years in Prison for Hacking Spree on Global Organizations, Including COVID-19 Researchers
US authorities have charged two Chinese hackers for allegedly hacking into the systems of hundreds of companies, governments and individual dissidents, as well as firms developing COVID-19 vaccines, testing technology, and treatments, ...
Cyber Readiness Institute: Small Businesses to Become Hot Target for Hackers during COVID-19 Pandemic
A company’s perception of the importance of cybersecurity depends on the size of the business, new research shows. Small businesses are less apprehensive of cyber attacks than bigger organizations, and according to ...
Beware the Security Threats from Remote Working
The rapid move to home working is posing problems for CIOs who want to keep the network secure. Here's what must happen to protect the network and its data. The post Beware ...
Quarantine Monitoring: China Throws Privacy Out the Door
The world continues to reel from COVID-19, as the pandemic rages on. In China, government entities are explicitly stating they are in test, trace and isolate mode. In “COVID-19: Contact Tracing Your ...
Ransomware Operators Hit Major Healthcare Supplier in Europe as COVID-19 Continues to Take Lives
Ransomware attackers have breached Europe’s largest private hospital operator, affecting not just its European branches, but every part of the company’s operations around the globe, sources say. Infosec journalist Brian Krebs reported ...
COVID Email Attack or Email Harvesting?
The well-publicized publishing of 25,000+ emails and passwords allegedly associated with the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health has captured the attention of both infosec practitioner ...
