Lately, I hear a lot of cybersecurity people talk about the need to strengthen the “human firewall.” My take: Security needs to start doing its job and stop blaming users.
Trustwave researchers largely blame the high rate of malicious spam (also called "malspam"), phishing & associated ransomware on the Necurs botnet, a rapid-fire network of zombie computers.
Your boss just needs a quick favor -- a simple funds transfer. But it's actually CEO fraud, which is a targeted, one-on-one operation conducted individually by con artists targeting specific companies (and specific individuals at those companies). Trustwave explains.
