Cybercrime & Digital Threats

Stolen cellphones can lead to stolen information and credentials through the combination of both traditional crimes and phishing attacks.

Cybercriminals are trying to scam Instagram users out of their login credentials via fake two-factor authentication notifications.

Security researchers have discovered that attackers can abuse the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery) protocol to launch massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaigns. Security researchers have issued a warning after seeing cybercriminals ab

Contrary to their moniker, the Silence cybercriminal group has reported to be actively targeting banks and financial institutions in more than 30 countries, managing to steal US$4.2 million from June 2016 to August 2019.

An open-source ransomware variant is being used to target players of Fortnite, an online video game with 250 million gamers as of March 2019.

The CEO of the Invictus Group of Companies, Obinwanne Okeke, has reportedly been arrested by the FBI after he was accused of conspiracy to commit computer and wire fraud.

The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) recently reported that the systems of 22 organizations in the state, mainly smaller local governments, were affected by ransomware attacks.

Researchers observed APT group Cloud Atlas with a new malware campaign, combining modular and polymorphic routines for evasion and persistence.

Credential phishing continues to be a bane for organizations. In the first half of 2019, the Trend Micro™️ Cloud App Security™️ solution caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from 1.5 million in the second half of 2018.