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From Zero–Day Exploits To Rampant 'Ransomware': How Advanced Targeted Attacks Evolved In Q2, 2017
ISBuzz News The second quarter of 2017 saw sophisticated threat actors unleash a wealth of new and enhanced malicious tools, including three zero–day exploits and two unprecedented attacks: WannaCry and ExPetr. Expert analysis of the last two suggests the code … |
If this year is anything like last we are in the midst of phishers’ attempts to trick taxpayers, employers and tax preparers into giving up information that will allow attackers to file bogus tax returns and collect IRS refunds, according to PhishLabs’ annual phishing report.
The latest Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report, which has data about January 2016, says that the IRS phishing sites spotted in that one month totaled more than the IRS phishing attempts seen during all of the previous year. While the numbers for this January aren’t in yet, PhishLabs researchers expect yet another spike.
That’s because last year, 40 businesses that phishers asked for their employees’ W2 forms actually sent them to the scammers, says Crane Hassold, a senior security threat researcher at PhishLabs.
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Chinese Espionage Now Rampant in Taiwan
DefenseNews.com First, China is a “tightly controlled authoritarian society versus a democratic one given to excess of freedom and laxity of discipline and regulations in Taiwan.” Second, China has a long tradition of winning the espionage war against its rivals … |
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Official describes rampant computer hacking at VA
Daily Caller Linda Halliday, an assistant inspector general, said investigators were seeing fewer weaknesses with the VA's computer security, but she told lawmakers that 4,000 weaknesses and vulnerabilities have not been addressed. She cited weak passwords and … |