January 6, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: Maritime Facility Struck by Ryuk Ransomware

2 min read - The U.S. Coast Guard revealed that a maritime facility suffered an infection at the hands of the Ryuk ransomware family. Learn what else happened last week in security news.

Risk Management November 26, 2019

Layer Up With a Layered Approach to Email Security This Winter

5 min read - Email security remains a top priority in 2019 and into the new year. Your best bet to fend off phishing attacks is to layer up with dynamic, data-driven protection.

October 14, 2019

Impostor Email Attacks Targeting Healthcare Increased by 300 Percent Between Q1 2018 and Q1 2019

2 min read - Healthcare companies saw a 300 percent increase in impostor email attacks between the first quarters of 2018 and 2019, a new report found.

Data Protection June 3, 2019

Bind Certificates to Domain Names for Enhanced Security With DANE and DNSSEC

7 min read - The biggest hurdle for implementing DANE lies with DNSSEC. Granted, setting up DNSSEC can be daunting, but the reward of a much higher level of DNS security can make it worth the effort.

April 23, 2019

Aggah Campaign Using Bit.ly, BlogSpot and Pastebin to Distribute RevengeRAT

2 min read - Researchers spotted the operators of the Aggah campaign exploiting Bit.ly, BlogSpot and Pastebin to spread variants of the RevengeRAT malware in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the U.S.

April 16, 2019

Emotet Variants Hijack Existing Email Conversations to Distribute Malicious Links

2 min read - Researchers observed variants of the Emotet Trojan injecting themselves into existing email conversations as a means of distributing malicious links.

Banking & Finance January 28, 2019

Why You Should Be Worried About London Blue’s Business Email Compromise Attacks

5 min read - Researchers have discovered evidence of a threat group named London Blue, a U.K.-based collective that focuses on CFOs at mortgage companies, accounting firms and some of the world's largest banks.

January 15, 2019

BBC Email Scam Spoofs Broadcaster’s Site to Generate Bitcoin

2 min read - Researchers identified a new email scam using seemingly legitimate BBC News webpages to reroute user clicks and generate bitcoin.

August 13, 2018

Banking Trojans Trickbot and IcedID Partner for Distribution and Development

2 min read - Trickbot has formed a partnership with another banking Trojan, IcedID, to help distribute each other's malware more widely — and possibly co-develop new capabilities.

February 27, 2018

New Incident Response Study Reveals More Than Half of Attackers Use Social Engineering to Target Organizations

2 min read - A new study on incident response revealed that more than half of external attackers use social engineering in targeted campaigns against organizations in various sectors.