Just days after the FBI issued a private warning to the banking industry (read more here), the botnet network known as Necurs began a spamming campaign that targeted the banking industry. The activity was discovered by the security research firm Cofense. According to Cofense, the Necurs network started a concentrated spear phishing campaign
Privacy Tip #127 – Emails Continue to Pose High Risk to Companies
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
According to a Proofpoint study that analyzed 160 billion emails delivered to 2,400 global companies at the end of 2017, 88.8 percent of organizations were targeted by at least one email phishing attack over the past year. This is an increase over its 2016 report conclusion of 75 percent.
In addition, more identities were spoofed…
Locky Ransomware Variant Difficult to Detect
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
We previously warned readers about the Locky ransomware, which is potent and designed to use phishing emails to lure users to click on links and attachments, including pdfs.
Now, researchers at Cylance have discovered that a new Locky variant, known as Diablo6, is a variant of Locky, but much more difficult to detect. According to…