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by Paul Ducklin [00’38”] Learning from computer virus history. [02’26”] The PrintNightmare saga continues. [05’27”] Apple puts out a patch, but doesn’t say why. [08’12”] Snitch on a crook and earn $10 million. [17’50”] Scammars do grammer and speeling correctly. [25’12”] And the Business Email Compromise that wasn’t. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. . . . Read more
Co-authored by Juan Badell and Russell Petrich As two people for whom creating phishing emails constitutes legitimate employment (we are on the product team behind the Sophos Phish Threat phishing simulation service) we know we’re in the minority. Like our not-so-lawful counterparts, we spend our days using social engineering techniques . . . Read more
Some 50,000 targeted victims have been identified so far in a massive, global scam enterprise that involves 26 different malwares. Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise (BEC) ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation resulted . . . Read more
Here’s the latest Sophos Threat Report – learn what cybercriminals are up to on Windows, Linux, Android and more
Scammers bilked Wisconsin Republicans out of $2.3 million in a basic BEC scam — and anyone working on the upcoming election needs to pay attention. The Wisconsin Republican party’s war chest is lighter by $2.3 million after scammers posing as MAGA-hat vendors were able to spoof invoices in what . . . Read more
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The administrator of your personal data will be Threatpost, Inc., 500 Unicorn Park, Woburn, MA 01801. Detailed information on the processing of personal data can be found in the privacy policy. In addition, you will find them in the message confirming the subscription to the newsletter.
by David Mitchell David Mitchell, Senior Director of Email Product Management at Sophos, shares his top tips to optimize workplace email security. How many work emails have you sent and received today? Despite the rise of workplace chat and instant messaging apps, for many of us email continues to dominate . . . Read more
The administrator of your personal data will be Threatpost, Inc., 500 Unicorn Park, Woburn, MA 01801. Detailed information on the processing of personal data can be found in the privacy policy. In addition, you will find them in the message confirming the subscription to the newsletter.
by Paul Ducklin Here’s a phishing email we received recently that ticks all the cybercriminal trick-to-click boxes. From BEC, through cloud storage to an innocent-sounding One Note document, right into harm’s way. Instead of simply spamming out a clickable link to as many people as possible, the crooks used more . . . Read more