Federal prosecutors in Virginia are charging four individuals for a wide-ranging scheme to defraud businesses, first by hacking into their email or networks and then impersonating trusted third-party vendors in order to collect on unpaid bills.
The Republican Governors Association last week disclosed a breach to its email servers between February and March to states' attorneys general and affected parties.
Rachel, CEO of SocialProof Security, delves into the inner-workings of social engineering exploits where she leverages her background in neuroscience and behavioral psychology to exploit the unpatchable vulnerability that is human nature. This segment is sponsored by Cybereason. Visit https://www.cybereason.com/cisostories to learn more about them!
One campaign posed as an HR department mandating vaccine information, another leveraged an XSS flaw to disguise a malicious download, and a third leveraged Verizon's Vzwpix service to mass-distribute emails.
This week, Dr. Doug talks: T-Mobile, Deepbluemagic, shell games. China strikes back, Colonial revisited, Fortinet, Captchas, and Cardinals on Parade, All this and the return of Jason Wood on the Security Weekly News!
Ransomware attacks have surged in 2021, with the number of attacks increasing dramatically and ransom amounts continuing to skyrocket. Cybercriminals are also expanding their targets, shifting their focus to our critical infrastructure and evolving into deep-rooted software supply chain attack campaigns, which can cause long-lasting devastation. In...
This Week, Dr. Doug talks: Printnightmare, Chaos, VR Nightmares, Aggah, Infra:Halt, Zoom, and Dallas County revisited, as all the show Wrap Ups on this edition of the Security Weekly News!
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