Cybercrime

UK police are warning businesses that cyber criminals are using fake domains to scam businesses out of hundreds of thousands of pounds

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445209/Cyber-criminals-use-fake-domains-to-scam-businesses

Welcome to the McAfee® Labs Threats Report June 2018. In this edition, we highlight the notable investigative research and threat trend statistics gathered by the McAfee Advanced

Threat Research and McAfee Labs teams in Q1 of 2018.

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/rp-quarterly-threats-jun-2018.pdf#sf193183537

What many international travellers do not realise is that their devices are often more vulnerable when taking a long-distance trip.

https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/consumer/mobile-security/travelers-guide-to-international-cybersecurity/

Three-quarters of UK companies say their cyber protection is above average, and nearly half think they are a “top performer” despite the growth in data breaches

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252444568/UK-firms-too-confident-about-cyber-security

Most organisations can list the IT security tools and controls they have, so why do most of them still get the security basics wrong?

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Cyber-security-why-youre-doing-it-all-wrong

The City of London Police’s Cyber Crime Unit have held their first Cyber Griffin briefing after the initiative was launched in May this year.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1065/businesses_attend_cyber_crime_briefing_as_offence

Thanks to the internet, it is exponentially easier now more than ever to idle by and catch juicy information than to press your ear against your neighbour’s wall.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2018/07/when-three-isnt-a-crowd-man-in-the-middle-mitm-attacks-explained/

The City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud which runs Action Fraud, the national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre, has revealed that City of London cybercrime victims lost £230,000 between October 2017 and March 2018.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1063/city_of_london_sees__230_000_lost_to_cyber_crime_

Profuse recounting of details from your life via social media may come at a price

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/06/29/oversharing-social-media/

Researchers at Malwarebytes have found that a new variant to the SamSam ransomware has been hitting users wherein the attacker has to put in a password before the malware could be executed.

http://www.ehackingnews.com/2018/06/new-samsam-ransomware-variant-requires.html