Sentences with phrase «by cybercriminals who»

Wicks — head of a small firm handling criminal defense and civil and family law cases in Rochester, New York — was being extorted by cybercriminals who were holding his firm's data for ransom.

In May 2017, our reliance on digital solutions was tested by cybercriminals who released a particularly potent virus into the wild, affecting users in over 150 different countries as well as multiple industries.

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The data breach, attributed to an employee who fell for a malicious «phishing» email in November, is just the latest example of a medical system infiltrated by cybercriminals — and you should expect to see even more health care data hacks in the coming years.

They are becoming susceptible to attacks by hackers and cybercriminals who employ different ways to manipulate users for their own advantage.

Judging by the common injections used by a few major gangs, cybercriminals may develop the malware in - house, but they outsource the webinjection portion to black - hat CaaS vendors who specialize in writing this type of fraud - facilitating code.

According to the email, «The security team here at Smashwords has detected multiple attempts by cybercriminals attempting to log in to Smashwords author accounts using stolen email / password combinations... To date, we're aware of two authors who were victimized, which in our minds are two too many!

While bitcoin's volatility means its value can rise or drop by thousands of dollars in just a matter of hours, its potential high value could make it something of a savings account or investment opportunity for professional cybercriminals who don't want to spend all their illicit earnings immediately, and prefer to play a long game instead.