Victim As a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers

Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have become increasingly public losses at least $75B by one recent study. However, because of their long-term conversationa...

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Widening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

While there are undoubtedly many major challenges within the world of cybersecurity, one of the principal roadblocks to the implementation of effective data security is the lack of skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information System Security...

Avengers: Endgame Sites Promise Digital Downloads, Deliver Info-Harvesting

Marvel Studio’s long-awaited superhero juggernaut Avengers: Endgame, represents the second-largest worldwide box-office haul for any film, ever – raking in $2.2 billion in its first two weekends. With demand like that, perhaps it’s not surprising that enterprising scammers are already luring in...

Filing Your Taxes? Watch Out for Phishing Scams

Online scammers love to target taxpayers, and their schemes range from posing as the IRS to pushing malware and fake tech support...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Mobile Devices Key To Facebook's New Log-In Approval Feature

Facebook is implementing a new opt-in, two-factor verification security feature they are calling log-in approval. The new feature will require users to enter a unique, one time code, which Facebook will send via SMS whenever a user tries to access his or her account from a new and/or unrecognized...

Popular Sports Site Goal.com Serves Malware

Goal.com, a popular football aka “soccer” for all us Yanks news site was hacked and found serving malware via drive-by-downloads between April 27 and 28, according to a post by Web security firm Armorize. In an analysis of the attack, Armorize researcher Wayne Huang suggests that a hacker...