Gozi (Ursnif) is a notorious and widely distributed banking trojan. It is so widely distributed that, according to IBM, it makes up 25% of all malicious activity targeted towards financial institutions and has been on the threat landscape for multiple years....
Reading this, you’ve probably experienced a shady call or two, phone scams are nothing new from boiler room boys promising the next hot stock (financial fraud) to paid-for horoscope subscriptions (cramming), technological advances have always been a useful weapon in any conman’s arsenal....
Protect yourself from a scam on the rise, BEC or Business Email Compromise is the cyber fraud of the internet age, a highly effective, cheaply orchestrated scam that is costing businesses billions. For those now versed in the basics of a BEC scam, we have...
Ransomware is one of the most widespread and damaging threats on the internet. According to publicly available information, ransomware infection have outnumbered data breaches 7,684 to 6,013 over the past 11 years. The use of ransomware, has been on the rise in recent times, growing...
Welcome to the Weekend Round-up. Edward Snowden knows a thing or two about online privacy, so when he suggested avoiding services like Google, Facebook and Dropbox at last week’s New Yorker Festival, it’s hard to ignore his advice. Like many of you, I use all three services,...
Welcome to What’s Trending in Thailand. Every year governments, businesses and consumers are affected personally and financially by cyber-crimes. According to a Norton report, the global price tag of consumer cyber crime is a whopping USD$ 113Bn. Making the average cost per victim at USD$ 298. Hackers...
Welcome to the Weekend Round-Up The contact information of more than 76 million former and current customers of JP Morgan Chase were compromised by the malware attack that used the “Zero-Day” code, making it one of the largest cyber breaches against a major financial institution. According to investigations, hackers...
2 months ago we saw that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware. The BadUSB attack was demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference by Karsten Nohl, and according to Nohl, the vulnerability is practically unmatchable. Due to the severity of the security problems and the lack of any easy patch...
Welcome to the Weekend Round-Up Last week, millions of servers were compromised by Shellshock, with reports suggesting up to 500 million machines that could be vulnerable to the bug. The Shellshock bug was first discovered in a tool known as Bash, which is widely used by Unix operating system...
