HR bonus-themed phishing attack looks to exploit year-end processes

HR bonus-themed phishing attack looks to exploit year-end processes

Mimecast emphasises the importance of user awareness training amid the recent detection of an HR bonus-themed phishing attack. South African businesses are being targeted by an active credential harvesting campaign. The campaign uses compromised e-mail accounts to distribute HR-themed phishing messages that impersonate DocuSign and company-specific HR departments. This is according to Mimecast’s Threat Research…

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Oracle urges urgent upgrades as hackers exploit flaws

Oracle urges urgent upgrades as hackers exploit flaws

Oracle said customers of its E-Business Suite of products “have received extortion e-mails”, confirming a warning first issued on Wednesday by Google. In a blog post, the California-based tech company said its investigation found that hackers had made potential use of previously identified software vulnerabilities and urged customers to upgrade their products. Oracle did not…

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