Decoding Internet Security: Spear phishing
May 4, 2017 9:40 AM EDT – Here is what you need to know about spear phishing: a targeted attack hackers use to steal your personal information. (Sarah Parnass, Dani Player / The Washington Post)
Category: Cyber Security
New IoT Botnet DDoSes Russian Bank
A brand new botnet has emerged and was spotted on April 16th, yet details have only been made public earlier today. It appears the person behind this new threat scanned for vulnerable IOT devices on port 81. When this unusual amount of port 81 traffic was first discovered, security researchers were a bit unsure as …
Cyber Breaches on the Financial sector skyrocketed in 2016
More than 200 million financial services records were breached in 2016, representing a 937% percent increase over the previous year, according to data from IBM. The monetary gains associated with corporate and customer data available throughout the financial sector proved appetising to cybercriminals in a year which saw hackers switch their focus away from the …
New Ransomware Is Hiding Inside Attachments of Attachments
Ransomware attacks are getting more and more clever as the public gets wise to them. The latest involves hiding a malicious macro inside a Word document attached to a seemingly harmless PDF file. The new ransomware campaign, highlighted by the Naked Security blog, works like this: You’re sent a spam email with a PDF attachment …
Bose Denies its headphones Connect App Spied on Users
Bose has denied any such allegations and pointed out that the privacy policy in the Connect App states that it collects de-identified data for Bose’s use only and does not sell the data to any other companies, including advertising. Bose also stressed that the information on the app is only visible to Bose and only …
Nearly Half of UK business Vulnerable to Cyber Security Breaches
UK-based businesses of all sizes are being urged to protect themselves against cyber crime after new government statistics showed nearly half of all UK businesses suffered a cyber breach or attack in the past year. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017 reveals nearly seven out of 10 large businesses identified a breach or attack, with …
Security flaws in wireless chips on Apple and Android mobile devices open to hackers
Reports last week of security flaws in the wireless chips used in a wide range of Apple and Android mobile devices came hard on the heels of news that network-enabled toys are being used by hackers to access personal data. The flaw which was discovered by Google Project Zero security researcher, Gal Beniamini said that …
CHIS, Kids Safety online: ICANN – a huge disappointment and a worry
The Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety (CHIS) has expressed concerns that ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), is not keeping the internet safe and secure for children. A new domain, .kids, can be bought by anybody wishing to set up a new website, without any relevant safeguarding checks taking place – …
Hackers Hijack Brazilian Bank’s Entire Online Operation
Wired.com reports of an enterprising group of hackers targeting a Brazilian bank who managed to reroute all of the bank’s online customers to perfectly reconstructed clones of the bank’s properties, where the marks obediently handed over their account information. Researchers at the security firm Kaspersky on Tuesday described an unprecedented case of wholesale bank fraud, …
PhishLabs report: Concern over Worldwide growth in phishing
Expansion is also apparent in the range of domains used: the phishing sites discovered in 2015 were spread across 280 TLDs, but last year 432 TLDs were involved. The trend was linked mainly to the availability of very cheap domain names under new TLDs (nTLDs). Compared with 2015, the number of phishing attacks from nTLDs …