In order to stop an organization becoming a victim of cyber extortion a combination of security technology, company policy and training are the most important factors to avoid attack by cybercriminals. This is why Panda Security has launched its Practical Security Guide to Prevent Cyber Extortion, in which it highlights that European organizations suffer the […]

On November 2015, Kaspersky Lab researchers identified ATMZombie, a banking Trojan that is considered to be the first malware to ever steal money from Israeli banks. It uses insidious injection and other sophisticated and stealthy methods. The first method, dubbed “proxy-changing”, is commonly used for HTTP packets inspections. It involves modifying browser proxy configurations and […]

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today sharply revised previous estimates on the number of citizens that had their tax data stolen since 2014 thanks to a security weakness in the IRS’s own Web site. According to the IRS, at least 724,000 citizens had their personal and tax data stolen after crooks figured out how to abuse a […]

How many files have you got resting in your computer’s download folder? It’s normal that it gets filled with installation apps form all the different programs that we download from the Internet and then forget to delete. Although this seems harmless at first, what is certain is that it could lead to some serious problems […]

Even though it’s for our own good, we are still struggling to follow classic security recommendations when surfing the Internet. We know how to create a secure password and the best way to avoid IT attacks and theft, but we don’t always put these tips into practice. To ensure that web users are up-to-date with […]

With tax filing season in the United States well underway, scammers who specialize in tax refund fraud have a new trick up their sleeves: Spoofing emails from a target organization’s CEO, asking human resources and accounting departments for employee W-2 information. Stu Sjouwerman, chief executive at security awareness training company KnowBe4, told KrebsOnSecurity that earlier […]