Tag: Cybercriminals

Cybercrime tools available through private networks and on the Dark Web make it easier than ever for would-be fraudsters to infiltrate networks.

In the age of cyber warfare, security analysts must determine which assets are most critical and prioritize their defense strategies accordingly.

Ransomware-as-a-service empowers cybercriminals to order up infections on-demand. Is this the future of digital attacks?

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are nothing new. Cybercriminals have been recruiting bots to do their dirty work for years, manipulating them into spamming company websites and causing collateral damage. What’s more, many...

Spamhaus and SpamCop serve as blocklist generators for mail servers all over the internet. They both deal with the unwanted spam that affects users, much of which is fairly innocuous. But since cybercriminals do generate spam as part of their...

Most cybercriminals aren’t looking to make things complicated or cumbersome. Sure, some want the attention that comes with cracking a new system or developing a new attack vector, but most attackers are just in the market for easy money. Users...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been all over the news in recent months, with hacktivist groups taking major targets completely offline. According to IBM Managed Security Services data, the vast majority of DDoS attacks come in one...

A quarterly report from Akamai found that attackers are increasingly leveraging misconfigured NTP servers to launch DDoS attacks.

The CryLocker malware family's novel approach to file management makes it difficult for victims to recover their data, even if they pay a ransom.

A new study analyzed 500,000 endpoints as a method of tracking online fraud. The 10,000 that were found to be compromised shared seven commonalities.