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Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams accounted for half of the cyber-crime losses in 2019
Average loss per BEC scam amounted to nearly $75,000, per complaint, on average. The FBI received 467,361 internet and cyber-crime complaints in 2019, which the agency estimates have caused losses of more than $3.5 billion, the bureau wrote in its yearly internet...
2020: A year of deepfakes and deep deception
Over the past year, deepfakes, a machine learning model that is used to create realistic yet fake or manipulated audio and video, started making headlines as a major emerging cyber threat. The first examples of deepfakes seen by the general public were mainly amateur...
Mac threats overtake Windows for the first time
It's generally been accepted that Mac systems are much safer than Windows, but that could be starting to change as a new report shows Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts for the first time ever. Malwarebytes latest annual State of Malware...
93% of attempted mobile transactions in 2019 were fraudulent
93 percent of total mobile transactions in 20 countries were blocked as fraudulent in 2019 according to a report on the state of malware and mobile ad fraud released by Upstream. The number of malicious apps discovered in 2019 rose to 98,000, up from 63K in 2018....
68% of organizations were victims of endpoint attacks in 2019
Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats, a Ponemon Institute study reveals. 68% IT security professionals say their company experienced one or more endpoint attacks that compromised...
UN didn’t patch SharePoint, got mega-hacked, covered it up, kept most staff in the dark, finally forced to admit it
The United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva and Vienna were hacked last summer, putting thousands of staff records at miscreants' fingertips. Incredibly, the organization decided to cover it up without informing those affected nor the public. That is...
MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 Update Released & Security Updates for Mojave & High Sierra
Apple has released macOS Catalina 10.15.3, which includes bug fixes and security updates to the Mac Catalina operating system. Separately, Mac users running Mojave or High Sierra will find new Security Updates available for those respective operating systems....
British Charity Loses Over $1m in Domain Spoofing Scam
A British community housing charity was conned out of more than $1m in a domain spoofing and contractor impersonation scam. Red Kite Community Housing announced on Tuesday that it had fallen victim to a cyber-scam in which criminals posed as genuine service providers...
How to Install and Use Extensions in the New Microsoft Edge
The new Microsoft Edge browser, based on the Chromium project used by Google Chrome, brings a better browsing experience to Windows 10 PCs. One unique feature is the ability to use extensions from both Microsoft and Chrome Web Store. Here’s how to install and use...
Researchers create OT honeypot, attract exploits and fraud
Trend Micro announced the results of research featuring a honeypot imitating an industrial factory. The highly sophisticated Operational Technology (OT) honeypot attracted fraud and financially motivated exploits. Complex investigation The six-month investigation...