Researchers at Netcraft have come across a Facebook phishing attack in which malicious actors leveraged some clever methods to increase their chances of tricking users into handing over their credentials.
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FBI Chief Sees Better Cyber Cooperation From China
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday he has seen some improvement in cooperation from China in fighting cybercrime following last year's bilateral agreement on the issue.
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More Than 1 Million Users Access Facebook Over Tor
Tor (The Onion Router) has long been the go-to browser for people looking to protect their privacy when accessing various online destinations, and more and more people are using it to access Facebook.
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Empty DDoS Threats: Cybercriminal Group is All Bark and No Bite
A new cyber-extortion group going by the name of the Armada Collective is extorting organizations by demanding they pay a ransom in order to avoid being hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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FBI Chief Warns of ‘Costs’ to Strong Encryption
Washington – FBI Director James Comey called Tuesday for a discussion of the "costs" of strong encryption now that a legal battle over access to the iPhone used by a California attacker has ended.
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Fraudsters Who Abused IRS “Get Transcript” Service Plead Guilty
Several people have pleaded guilty to their roles in tax fraud schemes involving the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” database.
The “Get Transcript” online service was launched in January 2014 to allow users to view and download their tax transcripts. The service was shut down in May 2015 after the IRS discovered that it had been abused by fraudsters.
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The Three W’s of Re-evaluating Your Network Security Vendor
When it comes to security vendors, businesses are often resigned to inertia – just keeping up with whatever worked in the past. However, the increasing complexity of the overall enterprise network and security environment, combined with the shortage in skilled staff, make “business as usual” a costly and risky paradigm.
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Information Stealer “Fareit” Abuses PowerShell
Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of the Fareit malware being delivered to victims using Windows PowerShell.
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US Drops iPhone Encryption Case After Getting Passcode
The United States government has dropped a case in which it attempted to get Apple to extract information from an iPhone after receiving the passcode to the device.
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GozNym Trojan Targets European Users
The cybercriminals behind the recently discovered GozNym banking Trojan have started targeting users in European countries.
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