Suspected HMRC-branded phishing scams grew by 87% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to official figures obtained by accountancy group Lanop Outsourcing following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request. This data revealed that reports of phishing scams impersonating the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority surged from 572,029 in the financial year 2019-20 to 1,069,522 from April 2020 to April 2021. Messages related to tax rebates or refunds made up the majority of reported scams, comprising 690,522 out…

New survey finds that the attack also motivated more information sharing within the industry and improved supply chain security. Image: Shutterstock/Vchal The good news is that security teams are beefing up network defenses, but the bad news is that most companies have recently suffered a cybersecurity incident that required a board meeting. That’s the analysis from the 2021 Cybersecurity Impact Report from IronNet.  The report is based on interviews with 473 security IT decision makers…

Mercedes Benz has released details of a data breach affecting customers and prospective buyers in the US. The luxury carmaker said a vendor had informed the company on June 11 that the information was “inadvertently made accessible on a cloud storage platform.” It appears that a third-party security researcher first raised the alarm. Although the initial investigation was set to discover whether 1.6 million unique records had been exposed, subsequent findings indicated far fewer customers…

Image: PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. Hackers were able to trick Microsoft into certifying a malicious driver that, if installed, would be able to decrypt internet traffic on an infected computer and send it to a third party. On June 17, a security researcher found that Microsoft had signed a rootkit, a dangerous type of malware that has the…

Gary Hibberd, professor of communicating cyber for Cyberfort and former head of business continuity and information security at various companies, teaches the importance of building resilience in your organization not just with technology but also with people and processes. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UDKiGLlzxhiGnd6FtvEnmStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 Tim Erlin: Welcome to the Tripwire Cybersecurity Podcast. I’m Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire. Today, I am joined by Gary Hibberd, who is the professor of…