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Bank transfer romance fraud rose 20% year-on-year between January and November 2020, according to new figures from UK Finance. Published shortly before this year’s Valentine’s Day, the trade association revealed that the total value of this type of scam – in which victims are duped into sending money to criminals who have convinced them they are in a genuine relationship – has increased by 12% to £18.5m. In addition, the UK’s national fraud and cybercrime…

A new breach analysis from CI Security found that cybercriminals are going after medical billing and insurance companies. Rawpixel, Getty Images/iStockphoto The numbers are not getting better for healthcare systems trying to keep patient data out of hackers’ hands. Healthcare data breaches went up 36% in the second half of 2020, according to a new analysis from CI Security. In the second half of the year, more than 21.3 million records were breached, an increase…

While it’s logical to assume seniors would be primary targets, a new report revealed that millennials were actually the most targeted demographic group of the more than 50 billion spam calls made in 2020. Image: iStock/rclassenlayouts “Scam likely.” If you get that message when a call comes in from a number you don’t recognize, you probably don’t answer and immediately register the number in your contacts as “Block caller.” If it seems like it’s happening…

Fraudsters are setting up Shopify-backed online stores to sell fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to anti-vaxxers, according to DomainTools. Due to the decentralized nature of the US healthcare system, the cards, which carry the logo of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were judged to be the simplest way the authorities can keep track of who has had the jab. Yet with 13% of Americans stating they will refuse the vaccine, there has…

Protecting your organisation against cyber attacks can sometimes feel like a never-ending game of security whack-a-mole. As soon as you’ve secured one weakness, another one appears. This can demoralise any organisation and make them believe that good information security practices are impossible. However, there is a solution – but it requires a different way of thinking. Organisations must stop looking at each individual threat as it arises and instead build defences that are equipped to…

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s February 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-928 on Wednesday, February 10th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-1732 A vulnerability in Win32k that allows for privilege escalation has been exploited in the wild. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a note about this vulnerability under the National Cyber Awareness System. Microsoft has rated this as Exploit Detected on the…

Despite addressing only 56 CVEs, Microsoft’s February 2021 Patch Tuesday release contains fixes for a number of significant security threats, as well as an elevation of privilege vulnerability disclosed by Tenable’s Zero Day Research team. Microsoft patched 56 CVEs in the February 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including 11 CVEs rated as critical and 43 rated as important. This month’s Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for .NET Core, .NET Framework, Azure IoT, Developer Tools, Microsoft Azure…