New Orleans crippled by cyber attack
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell declares a state of emergency following a barrage of phishing attacks hitting the Louisiana city.
December 16, 2019
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Ransomware teams increase use of stolen data as leverage
The team behind REvil, number five on our ten most prevalent ransomware strains in 2019 are now using stolen files
December 13, 2019
Phishing alert – Microsoft scam creates local login form
A crafty scammer is currently running a phishing campaign which delivers a fake landing page within an HTML attachment instead
December 9, 2019
Phishing emails to Germany’s e-banking customers top 40,000
Germany is marking its 40,000th officially reported e-banking phishing scam in the last decade. Research from PreciseSecurity.com revealed that Germany
December 6, 2019
Spear phishing attacks doubled in a year
A new report from Microsoft reveals that not only have spear phishing attacks doubled in the last year, but they
December 4, 2019
Almost 50% of workers have clicked on a phishing email
A recent poll by GetApp has revealed that almost half of respondents claimed a member of their organisation had clicked
December 2, 2019
Google issues 12,000 warnings of government-backed phishing attacks
Google has had to send warnings to its global users of government-backed spear phishing attacks more than 12,000 times in
November 29, 2019
Employees cannot spot phishing emails, half SMB execs say
In a recent survey by internet security firm Appriver on small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), almost half of C-Suite executives (49%) admitted
November 27, 2019