SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2025

Whether it was caused by a sophisticated cyberattack or an ordinary technical failure, the outcome remains the same: millions disrupted, critical services compromised, and economic damage," said Kip Boyle , Instructor and vCISO at Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC.

Cyber Attacks

Trend Micro

JUNE 26, 2025

Move faster than your adversaries with powerful purpose-built XDR, cyber risk exposure management, and zero trust capabilities Learn more Extend Your Team Extend Your Team. Respond Faster. Respond Faster. Under Attack?

Security Awareness

Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

In addition, find out how AI is radically transforming cyber crime. And get the latest on open source software security; cyber scams; and IoT security. 1 - Tenable: Orgs using AI in the cloud face thorny cyber risks Using AI tools in cloud environments?

Risk

Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Move faster than your adversaries with powerful purpose-built XDR, cyber risk exposure management, and zero trust capabilities Learn more Extend Your Team Extend Your Team. Respond Faster. Respond Faster. 6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime.

Cyber Risk

Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Move faster than your adversaries with powerful purpose-built XDR, cyber risk exposure management, and zero trust capabilities Learn more Extend Your Team Extend Your Team. Respond Faster. Respond Faster.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Expect to see AI-enabled phishing campaigns, deepfake scams, and automated attacks grow in complexity. AI-powered scams will soar: As attackers leverage commoditized AI tools, scamsespecially romance, investment, and fraudwill grow more convincing and costly.

Cybersecurity

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Top GreyMatter DRP Alerts ReliaQuest’s GreyMatter DRP helps organizations identify, monitor, and mitigate online threats by safeguarding their digital assets, brand reputation, and sensitive information from cyber risks across the internet.

Cyber Attacks

Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

From hyper-realistic deepfakes to advanced vishing scams, AI-generated threats have quickly raised the stakes for enterprise security.With AI fundamentally changing both how businesses operate and how cybercriminals attack, organizations must maintain a current and comprehensive understanding of the enterprise AI landscape.

Social Engineering

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. By focusing on strong, simple, and modern identity protection, Thales helps entities build trust and stay ahead of evolving cyber risks.

Authentication

Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2025

They also, it turns out, fall victim to fewer scams. In the original report released in June , Malwarebytes revealed how mobile scams have become a part of everyday life for most everyone across the globe—and how far too many individuals have essentially given up on trying to fight back. Apple users take fewer precautions online.

Scams

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. Jody Westby is the CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC , a security consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. 2, 2019: What Westby’s iPhone displayed as the scam caller’s identity. is likely to fool quite a few people.

Scams

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2020

Covid19 has upgraded the Internet — from the criminals’ point of view — to a picture-perfect environment for phishing, scamming and deep network intrusions. Thus the urgency for organizations to put all excuses aside and embrace stricter cyber hygiene practices could not be any higher. Clark, 17, of Tampa, Fla.

Cyber Risk

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Every industry is dealing with a myriad of cyber threats in 2024. It seems every day we hear of another breach, another scam, another attack on anything from a small business to a critical aspect of our nation’s infrastructure.

Cyber Risk

Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

How to stay safe, even when tech-savvy admins can't tell the difference between a scam and the truth.

Cyber Risk

Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. It’s just as easy to access a brackets spreadsheet or document through Google Docs or Microsoft Office as it is to send an email attachment, and it poses less of a cyber risk. Invest in security-based products.

Cyber threats

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For example, ReasonLabs researchers recently uncovered a scam that used stolen credit cards and fake websites to skim monthly charges off of unsuspecting consumers. These days, ordinary people are facing increasing —and more complex—threats than ever before.

Risk

Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training. Typosquatting relies on an attention deficit.

Hacking

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And sometimes, 23% of them experienced cyber-bullying and around 20% of them became a victim of a romance scam. Just by creating awareness among employees, using proactive security solutions, deploying MFA, using password managers can help in mitigating most of the cyber risks to a large extent. .

Identity Theft

Adam Levin

JULY 16, 2018

The personal data for up to 14 million Verizon customers was discovered on an unprotected web server in late June by a cyber risk researcher. The Verizon customer data was posted to a publicly-accessible Amazon Web Server by an employee of Nice Systems, which is an enterprise software company.

Identity Theft

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The opportunity to acquire them in bulk will be extremely attractive for actors involved in spam, online banking theft, scam, business email compromise (BEC), and account takeover (ATO) activities.

Scams

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As hackers and cyber crooks are always on a prowl of vulnerable of those who can be targeted easily by email scams, messages, malware or phishing attacks. However, not all seem to be merry for staying connected to the web 24×7.

Cybersecurity

BH Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In the spirit of empowering people and organisations to protect themselves from cyber risks, we’re going to look back at three of the main threats from the past year: ransomware , data breaches , and phishing. We’ll cover lessons to learn to prevent them from becoming risks to your business.

Scams

SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2020

The latest risk for increased phishing attacks? Security awareness study: how do end-users view cyber risks? First, they showed subjects email phishing scams. The subjects thought they were less likely than are others to fall for phishing scams—evidence of 'self-enhancement.' How did the experiment work?

Security Awareness

Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

Cybersecurity US holds conference on military AI use with dozens of allies to determine ‘responsible’ use DFSA’s Cyber Risk Management Guidelines: A Blueprint for Cyber Resilience?

Malware

SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Devon Ackerman, managing director and head of incident response for North America with Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, said that the malicious actors behind this growing trend are “directly tied to ransomware groups” and are likely using automated scripts to seek out “Contact Us” or chat forms on the internet that they can abuse.

Phishing

Webroot

JULY 25, 2022

Cyber insurance becomes mainstream discussion. As cyberattacks have become more costly and more challenging to track, cyber insurance has gained prominence across the industry. The cyber insurance market is expected to reach around $20B by 2025. Cyber Resilience planning puts focus on recovery readiness.

Cyber Insurance

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Phishing scams, supply chain attacks and ransomware extortion — all pivoting, in one way or another, off the shifting operating environment – spiked. Company leaders can then make more informed decisions, not just about cyber risk mitigation, but also how to run their organizations more efficiently, overall.

Digital transformation

eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

As per Trend Micro’s recent international Cyber Risk Index (CRI) findings for the second quarter of 2021, 76% of those surveyed anticipate a breach within the next 12 months. As the complexity of corporate networks keeps growing, all the companies need to have complete visibility over their attack surface.” Ransomware.

Social Engineering

Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training. Typosquatting relies on an attention deficit.

Hacking

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The account access could be sold in bulk to other cybercriminals to conduct traditional monetary scams. This group has been conducting various activities ranging from online shopping scams to phishing attacks since 2017. Hence, it opens up a wide range of possibilities. The group is allegedly led by a Nigerian goes by the nickname Sam.

Phishing

Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, spikes in online scams, fraud, identity theft, phishing and malware attacks have served as a constant reminder that individuals are waging war on two fronts. However, the increased exposure to cyber risks is not limited just to the remote-working population.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We hear it all the time from the virtual stage of regional SecureWorld conferences: Cyber risk is business risk. Yes, cyber risk is business risk. Here is more evidence that a view like that is accurate. Hedge fund firm: profits way up before the cyberattack. Levitas Capital was making a killing.

Cyber Attacks

Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

Cyber attack instances are steeply rising across all sectors , leaving even the FBI to issue a bulletin about business email compromise (BEC) – the $43 billion scam. To address this gap, the JCDC is planning proactive measures for future cyber risks. The backbone of this planning is the JCDC’s 2023 Planning Agenda.

Energy and Utilities

The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

.” Compared with today, those were sleepy times – when you might update your desktop antivirus weekly or even monthly -like changing the batteries in your TV remote, but not be overly concerned about debilitating cyber attacks or scams, Schrader noted.

Cyber Risk

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Financial Fraud: having a real patient's data can be used to commit medical fraud and scam the healthcare system. Hopefully medical organizations can learn from this research and use it to help reduce cyber risk.

Healthcare

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

In the current digital landscape, identity security has gained paramount importance due to the growing cyber risks posed by phishing and social engineering attacks utilizing AI. Why is identity management and security important in 2023? “In

Identity Theft

BH Consulting

JANUARY 11, 2022

From ransomware and scams to security frameworks and employee privacy, our 2021 ‘greatest hits’ show how broad the areas of cybersecurity and data protection can be. We begin with a look at a contentious topic: cyber risk insurance. However, John warned against thinking a cyber risk policy by itself is sufficient protection.

Cybersecurity