Posts Tagged trojan
Small firms lose up to £800 million to cyber crime a year
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 21/05/2013
New research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows that cyber crime costs its members around £785 million per year as they fall victim to fraud and online crime. The report shows: 41% of FSB members have been a victim of cyber crime in the last 12 months, putting the average cost at around […]
RSA’s April Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on the changes in Phishing tactics
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 13/05/2013
Phishing still stands as the top online threat impacting both consumers and the businesses that serve them online. In 2012, there was an average of over 37,000 phishing attacks each month identified by RSA. The impact of phishing on the global economy has been quite significant: RSA estimates that worldwide losses from phishing attacks cost […]
RSA’s March Online Fraud Report 2013, with a focus on Email and Identity takeover
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/03/2013
RSA’s March 2013 Online Fraud Report delivers the results from RSA’s fraud monitoring centre, a summary of the report is below. Phishing attacks are notorious for their potential harm to online banking and credit card users who may fall prey to phishers looking to steal information from them. Compromised credentials are then typically sold in […]
RSA’s September Online Fraud Report 2012 including a summary of rogue mobile apps
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 24/09/2012
In their September Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, a summary is below Threats and risks in today’s mobile app marketplace In terms of mobile security, some mobile application (app) platforms, such as Apple’s AppStore, are known to employ strict rules to which application developers are obliged to adhere. Other mobile app platforms, […]
RSA’s June Online Fraud Report 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 20/06/2012
In their June Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. RSA researchers have been following Ransomware campaigns and Ransomware Trojan attack waves and have recently analyzed a new variant that holds infected PCs hostage until their owners make a €100 payment to the botmaster. Ransomware is the type of malware that can infect a […]
RSA’s March Online Fraud Report
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 26/03/2012
In their March Online Fraud Report RSA reports on the activity of online fraudsters, full summary below. As well as the usual interesting statistics on fraudulent activity this report sheds light on the changes to the Zeus and Citadel Trojans as cybercriminals “migrating” from one Trojan botnet to another. FraudAction Research Lab has recently analyzed a Zeus 2.1.0.1 variant downloading […]
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