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For the second time in less than a year, Mailchimp has found itself in a precarious situation, having to admit that it has been breached. It appears that a social engineering attack tricked Mailchimp employees and contractors into giving up th…
The hackers who breached Riot Games last week are asking for $10 million not to leak the stolen source code for the company’s popular League of Legends online game. The company has also confirmed that source code for TFT (Teamfight Tactics) and a…
Malicious use of the text-based AI has already begun to be seen in the wild, and speculative ways attackers can use ChatGPT may spell temporary doom for cybersecurity solutions.
An unusual phishing technique has surfaced this week. Avanan, a Check Point Software company, released a blog Thursday morning detailing a new attack in which hackers hide malicious content inside a blank image within an HTML attachment in phi…
I have been doing some research on Secure Email Gateways. The picture is not that pretty. Below I will summarize what I found.
Phishing attacks are now the top vector for ransomware delivery, according to researchers at Digital Defense. Phishing emails can be highly tailored to specific employees in order to trick them into downloading malicious files.
Government workers are prime targets for social engineering attacks, according to Kaitlyn Levinson at GCN. Attackers use different tactics to target government employees in specific roles. Levinson quotes Rita Reynolds, Chief Information Offic…
Reuters describes a cyberespionage campaign carried out by the hitherto little-known threat group researchers track as “Cold River.” The group is circumstantially but convincingly linked to Russian intelligence services (possibly the FSB, alth…
The technique began in the Chinese underworld, and it amounts to an unusually protracted form of social engineering. The analogy is with fattening up a pig, then butchering it for all it’s worth. In this case the analogy is wayward, since the …