Spam

Email has always been a popular tool for business communications. Unfortunately, it is also one of the weakest links in an organization’s security strategy. 94 percent of all cybersecurity incidents originate from ...

Part One of this post, describing the many components of "The Enisa Cybersecurity Threat Landscape" went over ENISA's Year in Review, the emphasis on Cyber Threat Intelligence, Sector specific threats, Research Topics, ...

My previous posting on the Proud Boys spam email speculated that voter records were widely available for such purposes. Here’s a story from 2017 reporting that voter data for about 198 million ...

The Proud Boys emails aren't actual threats. They're the lowest form of anonymous spam ...

 Trickbot is having a truly bad time this month!  While as of today, Trickbot binaries are being delivered by Emotet, there is every sign that they are struggling.   Emotet's daily activities are ...

Scammers have no qualms about exploiting the pandemic to steal from the unwary Don’t just look out for yourself, warn vulnerable friends and family of scams too From the as-if-you-didn’t-have-enough-to-worry-about-in-2020 department, the ...

Dealing with the aftermath of ransomware attacks is like Russian roulette. Submitting the ransom might seem like it’s the sole option for recovering locked data. But paying the ransom doesn’t mean that ...

Bitdefender Antispam Lab spotted an amusing extortion campaign yesterday. While many extortion scams use petty scare tactics to fool recipients into paying up, you can’t be worried if you don’t understand the ...

In the last two weeks, Bitdefender telemetry has picked up a spam campaign leveraging the Coca-Cola Company name. The subject lines ranged from “COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION” to “Coca Cola Email Draw UK ...

Security researchers came across a series of odd protest-themed spam email messages that appeared to target the Atlanta Police Foundation. SANS’ Internet Storm Center observed that the spam messages first appeared to ...