Friday Five 1/27
A ransomware giant was taken down this past week, but vulnerabilities, poor cybersecurity implementation, and new hacking methods remain. Catch up on all of the latest stories in this week’s Friday Five!
A ransomware giant was taken down this past week, but vulnerabilities, poor cybersecurity implementation, and new hacking methods remain. Catch up on all of the latest stories in this week’s Friday Five!
The FBI says scammers are increasingly abusing forwarding rules on web-based email clients to hide their activity, opening the door for a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack.
Microsoft has released a new feature update - Application Guard - that opens suspicious looking attachments in a sandbox to prevent malicious activity.
The suspects, arrested worldwide, allegedly stole more than 250,000 identities, filed more than 10,000 fake tax returns, and tried to receive more than $91 million in refunds.
74 individuals were arrested over the last two weeks for their role in Operation Wire Wire, a law enforcement effort carried out by the FBI to disrupt a multi-million dollar business email compromise (BEC) scam campaign.