March 21, 2018

Cybercrime Profits Total Nearly $200 Billion Each Year, Study Reveals

< 1 min read - Illegal cybercrime profits total at least $80 billion and as much as $200 billion each year, an academic study into cybercriminals' money laundering schemes revealed.

Risk Management March 20, 2018

Enterprise Security Lessons From the Crypto-Mining Craze

3 min read - Recent research has failed to pin down exactly how the current crypto-mining craze is trending, but companies can derive many key enterprise security lessons from the latest headline-grabbing threat.

March 13, 2018

New Cybersecurity Threats Hit All-Time High in Q4 2017, Report Reveals

2 min read - A recent report found that the volume of new cybersecurity threats doubled from four per second in Q3 2017 to eight per second in the fourth quarter.

March 7, 2018

Digging Deep: New Crypto-Mining Scams Silently Steal Millions

2 min read - Crypto-mining scams are on the rise as attackers see the value in virtual currency and discover ways to operate undetected on corporate networks.

Fraud Protection March 6, 2018

February’s Top Cybersecurity News Stories: Nice Phish You Got There

3 min read - Last month's cybersecurity news cycle featured a tricky cryptocurrency-stealing Trojan, targeted phishing attacks, interesting insights about millennials' identity protection habits and more.

March 5, 2018

Domains Hosting Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts Jump 725 Percent

2 min read - The number of domains hosting cryptocurrency mining scripts jumped 725 percent over a four-month period in the latter part of 2017, according to recent research.

Malware March 5, 2018

Mobile banking trojans as keen on cryptocurrency as PC malware

3 min read - Cybercriminals are emulating PC malware to develop mobile banking Trojans that leverage malicious miners to steal cryptocurrency and deliver it to attacker-controlled wallets.

February 28, 2018

Mobile Security Report: Banking Trojans and Cryptocurrency Malware Grew by at Least 60 Percent in 2017

2 min read - According to a new mobile security report, both banking Trojans and cryptocurrency malware increased by at least 60 percent in 2017.

Government February 27, 2018

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Emerging Trend of National Cryptocurrency: Estcoin

5 min read - As digital coins continue to dominate tech headlines, Estonia is on the verge of launching its own national cryptocurrency known as estcoin.

Malware February 26, 2018

XMRig: Father Zeus of Cryptocurrency Mining Malware?

5 min read - XMRig is popular among cybercriminals because it is open source, meaning threat actors can make relatively simple changes to its code to convert the tool into a cryptojacking mechanism.