Growing success with business email compromise (BEC) attacks has spurred cybercriminals to redouble their efforts, with new figures showing that BEC volumes surged to record highs in the last quarter of 2018.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
An old banking trojan that was once limited to Russia has been updated to catch Australian banking customers.
Symantec's latest annual research suggested that the incidence of zero-days had doubled in 2015 – due in large part to the growing professionalism of cybercriminals developing new malware like the hybrid GozNym banking Trojan.
David Braue | 18 Apr | Read more
There is so much personal information available online that size has proven to be no impediment for even small cybercriminal groups that are proving effective at launching highly effective targeted attacks, according to the head of one security specialist's global R&D labs
David Braue | 18 Apr | Read more
Australia is amongst the world's top ten countries affected by banking malware, according to a Symantec analysis that found that one Australian bank was targeted by nearly 55 percent of all banking trojans analysed during 2015.
David Braue | 24 Mar | Read more