2024

Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions.

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Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions.

Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to sip tea and solve mysteries about today’s most interesting threats. Your host is Selena Larson, Proofpoint intelligence analyst and host of their podcast DISCARDED. Inspired by the residents of a building in New York’s exclusive upper west side, Selena is joined by N2K Networks Dave Bittner and Rick Howard to uncover the stories behind notable cyberattacks.  Being a security researcher is…

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Olympic scammers go for gold.

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Olympic scammers go for gold.

This week, we are joined by Selena Larson, Staff Threat Researcher, Lead Intelligence Analysis and Strategy at Proofpoint, as well as host of the “Only Malware in the Building” podcast, as she is discussing their research on “Scammers Create Fraudulent Olympics Ticketing Websites.” Proofpoint recently identified a fraudulent website selling fake tickets to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and quickly suspended the domain. This site was among many identified by the French Gendarmerie Nationale and…

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Beware Of Scam Olympics Ticket Websites, Fans Warned

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Beware Of Scam Olympics Ticket Websites, Fans Warned

Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images Getty Images As the Paris Summer Olympics approach, fans are being advised to keep a careful eye out for scams targeting their cash and their data. Fake ticket websites are rife, with the Olympics Committee recently warning that fraudsters are claiming to offer free tickets to the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games for just the cost of postage. Researchers at security firm Kaspersky say that numerous scam websites are…

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