Category: Threats

There was a 125% surge in the number of phishing attacks that financial services and insurance organisations experienced between 2019 and 2020.

The Joker malware infiltrated over 500,000 Huawei phones via ten apps using which the malware communicates with a command and control server.

71% of organisations suffered successful account takeover attempts since the pandemic arrived.

The SIlver Sparrow malware has infected nearly 30,000 MacOS devices worldwide but researchers are unclear about its origin and purpose.

FCA was targeted by nearly 250,000 spam and malicious emails between October and December, including 2,400 malware-laced emails.

70% of UK financial sector firms suffered cyber attacks in 2020 as a result of trying to navigate through Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic

Interpol has warned about the misuse of popular dating apps by fraudsters to lure people into investing in bogus investment schemes.

Researchers at Group-IB have unearthed Classiscam, a new scam by Russian-speaking actors to trick Europeans into visiting fake shopping sites

A database stolen from a government server in Shanghai has exposed the identities of two million members of the Chinese Communist Party.

China is close to achieving quantum supremacy by building quantum computers that are many times faster than the most powerful supercomputers.

NSA has warned organisations about a vulnerability affecting VMware identity management products that Russian hackers are exploiting.