Cybercrime & Digital Threats

The ransomware business continues to expand with the discovery of a ransomware development kit on underground forums.

Having infected 23 million emails in just the span of 24 hours, the new Locky campaign is now considered the largest to hit the second half of 2017.

Hackers abused a bug in Instagram’s API and gained access to prominent users’ contact information. The company confirmed that email addresses and phone numbers were stolen.

Email is a major entry point for all kinds of threats. Onliner is a massive operation that uses account data harvested from previous breaches to spread malware.

While all organizations from the largest multinational corporation to smaller single proprietorship businesses are vulnerable to security risks, Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are particularly exposed to malicious attacks.

On August 25, 2017, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested one of the people suspected of using the same malware linked to the OPM data theft.

This primer discusses how Business Email Compromise makes inroads in small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises and how to avoid being a victim of this billion-dollar scam.

A new attack targeting Ukraine uses a compromised web server to deliver malware.

Cryptocurrency exchange Enigma came under attack just a few weeks before a highly anticipated Initial Coin Offering (ICO) as the company warned that certain accounts in their system were compromised.