Africa Sees Surge in Cybercrime as Law Enforcement Struggles
Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off.
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Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off.
Interpol's Operation Secure arrested more than 30 suspects across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru, and seized 117 command-and-control servers allegedly used to run widespread phishing, business email compromise, and other cyber scams.
Interpol's Operation Secure arrested more than 20 suspects across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Naru, and seized 117 command-and-control servers allegedly used to run widespread phishing, business email compromise, and other cyber scams.
An email campaign luring users with offers of free President Trump meme coins can lead to computer takeover via the ConnectWise RAT, in less than 2 minutes.
Multimodal AI systems can help enterprise defenders weed out fraudulent emails, even if the system has not seen that type of message before.
Cybercriminals are trafficking DocuSign assets that allow for easy extortion and business email compromise.
Cybercriminals are playing both sides with simple disaster scams, and it's working.
Business email compromise scams are moving beyond just stealing cash, with some threat actors fooling companies into sending goods and materials on credit, and then skipping out on payment.
Attackers use scam security checks to steal victims' government documents, photos, banking information, and email passwords, researchers warn.
Businesses receive an invoice via email with a credit card charge and are asked to call a fake number and hand over personal information to receive a refund.