Let’s blame the victim. IT decision makers’ confidence about security doesn’t jibe with their concession that repeated incidents are their own fault, says ExtraHop’s Jamie Moles.
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Posts tagged "Victims"
2FA App Loaded with Banking Trojan Infests 10K Victims via Google Play
The Vultur trojan steals bank credentials but asks for permissions to do far more damage down the line.
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Google Voice Authentication Scam Leaves Victims on the Hook
The FBI is seeing so much activity around malicious Google Voice activity, where victims are associated with fraudulent virtual phone numbers, that it sent out an alert this week.
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Robocalls More Than Doubled in 2021, Cost Victims $30B
T-Mobile reported blocking 21 billion scam calls during a record-smashing year for robocalls.
Ragnar Locker Gang Warns Victims Not to Call the FBI
Investigators/the FBI/ransomware negotiators just screw everything up, the ransomware gang said, threatening to publish files if victims look for help.
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No More Ransom Saves Victims Nearly €1 billion Over 5 Years
No More Ransom is collecting decryptors so ransomware victims don’t have to pay to get their data back and attackers don’t get rich.
What’s Next for REvil’s Victims?
Podcast: Nothing, says a ransomware negotiator who has tips on staying out of the sad subset of victims left in the lurch, mid-negotiation, after REvil’s servers went up in smoke.
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BIOPASS RAT Uses Live Streaming Steal Victims’ Data
The malware has targeted Chinese gambling sites with fake app installers.
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LinkedIn’s 1.2B Data-Scrape Victims Already Being Targeted by Attackers
A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum.
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PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry
Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network.
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