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Security News

3 out of 4 phishing scams get to your inbox untouched - How many times a day does your email
inbox enjoy a phishing scam? A lot, according to a new UK study. Professor Steven Furnell offered a
dim view of email providers, stating "The poor performance of most providers implies they either
do not employ filtering based on language content or that it is inadequate to protect users. Given
users' tendency to perform poorly at identifying malicious messages, this is a worrying outcome."
Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/3-out-of-4-phishing-scams-get-to-your-inbox-
untouched/

It's not just Equifax: Here's every major security breach and data hack so far - Data breaches are
scary. Scariest of all is that they can come at any time, to any of the financial institutions you trust.
Hackers take advantage of loopholes in institutions' servers and security protections to steal your
most personal and sensitive information -- credit and debit card numbers, Social Security data, your
birth date and maybe even where you live.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/its-not-just-equifax-heres-every-major-security-
breach-and-data-hack-so-far/

Over 20 Texas local governments hit in 'coordinated ransomware attack' - Twenty-three local
Texas governments have been infected with ransomware last week in what Texas officials have
described as a coordinated attack.The attack took place on Friday morning, August 16, US time,
when several smaller local Texas governments reported problems with accessing their data to the
Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR).

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/at-least-20-texas-local-governments-hit-in-
coordinated-ransomware-attack/

A ransomware revival leads to 2.2 billion stolen credentials on the dark web in Q1 - In a new
report, McAfee Labs said cybercriminals were focusing in on attacking weak IoT devices and
extracting huge troves of data from large companies. Researchers at cybersecurity firm McAfee
called the past months "the quarter of data dumps" in an alarming report released on Wednesday.
The 40-page survey of the security landscape found more than 2.2 billion stolen account
credentials were made available on the cybercriminal underground this quarter and hackers had
even figured out ways to break into Wi-Fi enabled coffee makers. "It's important to recognize that
the numbers, highlighting increases or decreases of certain types of attacks, only tell a fraction of
the story. Every infection is another business dealing with outages, or a consumer facing major
fraud. We must not forget for every cyberattack, there is a human cost.“McAfee Labs research
found 504 new threats per minute in the first four months of the year. Cybercriminals were
adapting quickly to security measures and were innovating constantly with new tactics and code.

Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/a-ransomware-revival-leads-to-2-2-billion-
stolen-credentials-on-the-dark-web-in-q1/

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