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August 1, 2016

SECURITY

Attackers Evolve Tactics to Infiltrate Your Network via Email

3 min read

Email continues to be the number one business communication method and is still the number one threat vector. This ubiquitous communication technology also provides an effective path for criminal actors. Today, customers are more concerned about targeted and other advanced attacks rather than spam capture rates. Well-funded, educated criminals employ a wide range of attack […]

June 30, 2016

THREAT RESEARCH

Gotta be SWIFT for this Spam Campaign!

1 min read

Talos have observed a large uptick in the Zepto ransomware and have identified a method of distribution for the Zepto ransomware, Spam Email. Locky/Zepto continue to be well known ransomware variants and as such we will focus on the spam email campaign. We found 137,731 emails in the last 4 days using a new attachment […]