Bored with ransomware stories? Read this one, it has a very nice Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference. There have been a flurry of ransomware attacks in the news recently – but these are only the ones that make the headlines. Louisiana authorities investigating ransomware attack on city of Alexandria …
Phishing email alert – Excel spreadsheets loaded with RATs
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence have been tracking phishing emails that contain a triple threat of remote access trojans – RATS. The package is contained in an infected Microsoft Excel document and once the recipient of the email makes the mistake of opening the file – because the file name …
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Anatomy of a phishing email
Awareness of the variations of phishing email attacks is a big step in defending against them – that I why I always try and post about any in depth analysis of phishing emails and their payloads that SANS Internet Storm Centre runs. HTML phishing attachments – now with anti-analysis features …
Alleged Phishing Email Crime Boss is Caught
It is getting towards the end of the week… Hopefully this will have some impact on the amount of phishing emails and business email compromise attacks going around. Suspected phishing email crime boss arrested in Nigeria • The Register Alleged leader of Nigerian email fraud group has been captured, Interpol …
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Dangerous malware – it’s only function is to deceive you into clicking something…
Getting the word out to you, about the wide range of phishing emails and their associated social engineering tricks actually active in the wild, is one of the ain reasons this blog exists. Many of our clients use this blog as a resource as a link to the multitude of …
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