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Ransomware victims aren't reporting attacks to police. That's causing a big problem   ZDNet Ransomware victims aren't reporting attacks to police. That's causing a big problem | ZDNet Europol's annual cybercrime report says ransomware is under-reported by victims -...

Lightning does strike twice: If you get hacked once, you'll probably be attacked again within a year   Danny Palmer ZDNet Lightning does strike twice: If you get hacked once, you'll probably be attacked again within a year | ZDNet Businesses might feel that if they're...

Businesses are overconfident about the state of their security N.F. Mendoza  Tech Republic Businesses are overconfident about the state of their security - TechRepublic 60% of remote workers use personal devices, many without protection from their business'...

Be warned: COVID-19 vaccine scams are now appearing online, over text, and by email  Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | January 4, 2021 Be warned: COVID-19 vaccine scams are now appearing online, over text, and by email | ZDNet With millions of us waiting for our place in...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued an alert to warn of a voice phishing (vishing) campaign targeting the employees of multiple organizations.  In the vishing attacks, adversaries were...

IBM has identified phishing emails which were sent out across six countries, which targeted organizations linked to the Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP) of Gavi, the international vaccine alliance.  Gavi's partners include the World Health...

Malicious actors are abusing users’ trust in the HTTPS protocol to launch phishing campaigns.  Modern browsers mark websites that use the protocol with a lock icon to indicate that browser traffic is encrypted and that attackers can’t access the data in transit. More...

The agency states that “unattributed cyber actors” are registering domains designed to spoof legitimate websites pertaining to the FBI, “indicating the potential for future operational activity.”  In addition to spoofed domains, state-sponsored actors and...

The holiday season is prime time for cyber criminals to take advantage of unsuspecting cyber shoppers.  More online shopping means people are receiving more emails about the shipment and deliveries of their orders and cyber criminals are actively looking to take...

In May of 2020 Spectra Logic, a Bolder Colorado based data storage and data management solutions experienced a ransomware attack while in the process of moving to remote work.  The attack was made by one of the more active ransomware malware that encrypted a...

Zoom email scam" refers to an email spam campaign. The term "spam campaign" is used to describe a mass-scale operation, during which thousands of deceptive emails are sent. The letters, distributed through this spam campaign, claim recipients have received a video...