Found injected into a core WordPress file, this PHP injection works by using fsockopen to open a connection to the $host variable, which contains the URL to the SEO spam infrastructure.
Scammers are taking advantage of the Minecraft game’s wild success by developing Google Play apps which appear to be Minecraft modpacks, but instead deliver abusive ads, according to researchers.
As retailers now prepare for a surge in online holiday shopping amid the on-going global pandemic, Imperva experts urge vigilance and preparedness on the part of online businesses.
Researchers from the University of Michigan and The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo) who last year hacked popular voice assistants with laser pointers take their work to the next level.
The purpose of the phishing campaigns is to collect personal data that could be used for identity theft or usernames and passwords that could be used for credential stuffing attacks.
In Q2, there was an alarming, rapid increase of new phishing and fraudulent sites being created, detecting 1.7 million phishing and scam websites – a 13.3% increase from Q1 2020, according to Bolster.
There is an entire industry now dedicated to selling ransomware as a service, which lowers the barrier for criminals to enter, and means more attackers are getting into this very profitable business.
Three healthcare providers in Florida, Georgia, and New York are notifying patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in recent cyber-attacks involving ransoms.
Treasury is signaling that organizations that pay ransomware could be at risk of prosecution for running afoul of US laws if the person or organization they’re paying is on a sanctions list.
The obfuscation technique used by TrickBot takes advantage of the way the Windows command line interpreter, cmd [.] exe, reads and interprets data that is typed on the command line.