A cyber-extortion gang is using phishing emails, social engineering, and a network of phony call centers to scam victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Enhance your cyber security asap. These cyber criminals are tricking victims into allowing them remote access into their PC, then they steal data and threaten to leak it if […]
The most common victims targeted work at organisations that weren’t using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure their accounts. Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are one of the most lucrative forms of cyber crime: According to the FBI, the combined total lost is over $43 billion and counting, with attacks in at least 177 countries. These attacks […]
The security breach that hit Uber last week was the work of Lapsus$.Uber said it is in close coordination with the FBI and US Justice Department on the matter. Lapsus$ is a South American hacking group has attacked a number of technology giants in the past year, including Microsoft, Samsung, and Okta. What Happened? An Uber EXT contractor had […]
Microsoft rolls out a new security feature that should significantly slow down password attacks against Windows devices.The latest preview of Windows 11 ships with the SMB server authentication rate limiter on by default. This makes Windows 11″a very unattractive target” for hackers trying to steal credentials, since it’s much more time-consuming for them to target […]
Targets of ransomware rarely publicly acknowledge attacks. More openness would help everyone. Ransomware is one of the most significant cybersecurity issues we face, as cyber criminals hack into businesses, schools, hospitals, critical infrastructure and more, in order to encrypt files and demand a ransom payment for the decryption key. Despite warnings not to, many victims pay […]