The U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued an alert to taxpayers about a new phishing scam that uses fraudulent emails posing as IRS communications to direct American taxpayers to download malware. With subject lines such as “Automatic Income Tax Reminde…
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued an alert to taxpayers about a new phishing scam that uses fraudulent emails posing as IRS communications to direct American taxpayers to download malware. With subject lines such as “Automatic Income Tax Reminde…
Microsoft has notified political organizations more than 780 times in the past year that they’ve been targeted or compromised by nation-state attacks. “This data demonstrates the significant extent to which nation-states continue to rely on cyberattack…
In December 2018, Chinese nationals Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong were indicted by the US Department of Justice for involvement with the APT10 hacking group. The APT epithet stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. It is used to specify an elite hacking grou…
The internet is full of tips on how to keep your children safe online… but what about your parents? Many didn’t grow up with the internet, and reports often show that older users are more likely to fall victim to scams such as clicking on unsafe …
Just about everything we do online requires us to submit an email address or create an account.
Sea Turtle hijacks the internet
A hacker group that experts believe might be backed by a nation-state has been targeting big fish in the internet infrastructure world. Sea Turtle, as the group is nicknamed, launched cyberattacks against 40 government …
What does “social engineering” mean?
The term “social engineering” may sound arcane and intimidating, and in some ways, it is. But most of us have encountered some form of social engineering many times — on the internet, in our emails, and in newspape…
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering, the sum of which netted him $99 million from Facebook and $23 million from Google. What may sound like a complicated scheme was actu…
Thieves no longer stop at credit card numbers and financial swindling. Sure, they want your money, but today’s career criminals want more. They want your data.