Author: Anthony Lim

Delivering malware, a cybercrime practice that spans every skill level and adversarial motivation, can take various forms. But all too often, malicious payloads are served up via macros in productivity files, accounting for much of the overall malware delivery around the world. Why? Organizations and webmail providers typically don’t block…

I always find it funny when I come across a news story about cybercrime that uses an image of a young person alone in a dark room, cloaked in a black hoodie, tapping away feverishly on a personal computer. It seems the image of a young Matthew Broderick as a…

Two and a half years after the initial arrest of a major member of the GozNym cybercrime gang, Europol and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) joined forces to reach additional gang members who used the Trojan to pilfer large amounts of money from companies in the U.S. The operation…

The “IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2019” highlighted troubling trends in the cybersecurity landscape, including a rise in vulnerability reporting, cryptojacking attacks and attacks on critical infrastructure organizations. Yet amid all the concern, there is one threat trend that our data suggests has been on the decline: hacktivism — the…