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3 ingredients of a successful attack

22

Nov

2016

The field of computer security has been around since the 1960s, and since then, practitioners have developed “a good understanding of the threat and how to manage it,” say the authors of Security in Computing, 5th edition. But over the years the field has also developed a language of its own, which can present a […]

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Surge of email attacks using malicious WSF attachments

13

Oct

2016

Symantec has seen a major increase in the number of email-based attacks using malicious Windows Script File (WSF) attachments over the past three months. Ransomware groups in particular have been employing this new tactic. In the past two weeks, Symantec has blocked a number of major campaigns distributing Locky (Ransom.Locky) which involved malicious WSF files. […]

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Vast phishing campaigns boost global criminal attack footprint

06

Oct

2016

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed a record number of phishing attacks in the second quarter of 2016. APWG observed 466,065 unique phishing websites in Q2. This represents a increase of 61 percent from the 289,371 phish found in the first quarter of 2016, which was itself the previous high. The Q2 total was almost […]

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