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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case
On the eve of their federal criminal trial for allegedly stealing vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct have agreed to plead guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.
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U.S. Water Utilities Prime Cyberattack Target, Experts
Environmentalists and policymakers warn water treatment plants are ripe for attack.
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Potent Emotet Variant Spreads Via Stolen Email Credentials
The dangerous malware appears to be well and truly back in action, sporting new variants and security-dodging behaviors in a wave of recent phishing campaigns.
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Feds Forced Travel Firms to Share Surveillance Data on Hacker
Sabre and Travelport had to report the weekly activities of former “Cardplanet” cybercriminal Aleksei Burkov for two years, info that eventually led to his arrest and prosecution.
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Taming the Digital Asset Tsunami
Rob Gurzeev, CEO and Co-Founder of CyCognito, explores external attack surface soft spots tied to an ever-expanding number of digital assets companies too often struggle to keep track of and manage effectively.
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Paying Ransomware Paints Bigger Bullseye on Target’s Back
Ransomware attackers often strike targets twice, regardless of whether the ransom was paid.
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Black Basta Ransomware Teams Up with Malware Stalwart Qbot
The novel cybercriminal group tapped the ever-evolving info-stealing trojan to move laterally on a network in a recent attack, researchers have found.
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KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime
Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week -- "Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet" -- in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. The debut episode explores the far-too-common harassment tactic of "swatting" -- wherein fake bomb threats or hostage situations are phoned in to police as part of a scheme to trick them into visiting potentially deadly force on a target’s address.
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Cyber Risk Retainers: Not Another Insurance Policy
The costs associated with a cyberattack can be significant, especially if a company does not have an Incident Response plan that addresses risk.
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Conducting Modern Insider Risk Investigations
Insider Risk Management requires a different approach than to those from external threats. IRM is unique from other domains of security in that the data sources which serve as inputs are as often people as they are tools. Shifting the analyst‘s mindset when handling risks presented by insiders requires us to move through the stages of inquiry, investigation, and determining outcomes.
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