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The FortiGuard Labs SE team recently identified a new malicious spam campaign utilizing the well documented infostealer LokiBot. Learn more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/jsXG7ovxyoY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The contractor claims the access being auctioned off was to old test systems that do not have direct connections to its government partner networks. In mid-August, a member of a popular Russian-language cybercrime forum offered to sell access to the internal network of a U.S. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military. The seller bragged that he had access to email correspondence and credentials needed to view databases of the client agencies, and set the opening price at six bitcoins (~USD $60,000).
A roundup of the latest cybersecurity news for the week of September 2 – 8, including TrickBot’s new trick, a social engineering toolkit, and how to keep remote workers safe.
Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:36:11 +0000
Before organizations engage in gnashing of teeth over the “ignorant user” and the cost of training, think about how much email users encounter and whether corporate communications look like phishes themselves.