Scams

Phishing Emails Lure Victims With Inside Info On Trump’s Health A phishing campaign pushing a network-compromising backdoor pretends to have the inside scoop on President Trump’s health after being infected with COVID-19. With the United States 2020 Presidential elections being hyper-partisan, people from different sides of the aisle have become Read more…

Hackers Abuse Windows Error Service In Fileless Malware Attack An unknown hacking group injected malicious code within the legitimate Windows Error Reporting (WER) service to evade detection as part of a fileless malware attack as discovered by Malwarebytes researchers last month. Exploiting the WER service in attacks for defense evasion Read more…

The Anatomy Of A $15 Million Cyber Heist On A US Company Experienced fraudsters made off with $15 million from a U.S. company after carefully running an email compromise that took about two months to complete. The cybercriminal executed their plan with surgical precision after gaining access to email conversations about Read more…

Ransomware Gangs Add DDoS Attacks To Their Extortion Arsenal A ransomware operation has started to utilize a new tactic to extort their victims: DDoS a victim’s website until they return to the negotiation table. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when a threat actor floods a website or Read more…

US Govt Warns Of Sanction Risks For Facilitating Ransomware Payments The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today said that organizations that assist ransomware victims to make ransom payments are facing sanctions risks as their actions could violate OFAC regulations. OFAC’s advisory comes after the FBI said Read more…

Businesses In India Most Affected By Cyberattacks, While Malware Remains An Issue In Singapore, Acronis Finds Acronis released its 2020 Cyber Readiness Report, evaluating the readiness of businesses in dealing with cyberthreats before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that businesses in India have been most affected by cyberattacks. In surveying Read more…

Blackbaud: Ransomware Gang Had Access To Banking Info And Passwords Blackbaud, a leading cloud software provider, confirmed that the threat actors behind the May 2020 ransomware attack had access to unencrypted banking and login information, as well as social security numbers. The US-based company listed on NASDAQ is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, and Read more…

Ransomware Hits US-Based Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Giant US-based Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) global insurance brokerage and risk management firm confirmed a ransomware attack that hit its systems on Saturday. AJG is one of the largest insurance brokers in the world with more than 33,300 employees and operations in 49 countries. The Read more…