Phishing threatens online confidence
Gartner reports rise in phishing attacks
Phishing attacks have increased by 28 per cent in the past 12 months, according to research published this week. The survey of 5,000 individuals in the US conducted by analyst Gartner, shows that phishing...
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$5 million bounty placed on Russian hackers responsible for Dridex banking malware
The FBI and US Department of State have placed a record-breaking bounty on Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev
Magento Marketplace suffers data breach exposing confidential details of users
Magento's platform has been targeted in the past by Magecart scammers, but it claims its core products and services were not exposed in this latest incident
US department store Macy's the latest company to be compromised in Magecart attack
Macy's claims that it discovered the Magecart compromise of its payment pages within seven days
Hosting provider SmarterASP.NET hit by ransomware attack
Majority of customers don't have access to their data yet
Wind and solar energy provider hit by denial-of-service attack earlier this year
The attack caused a disconnection between the power provider's main command centre and power generation installations