Financial Phishing Attacks Take Off, Malware Declines

[TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( May 07, 2020 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [Financial Phishing Attacks Take Off, Malware Declines]( In the past year, the number of digital threats increased by nearly half as phishing swamped malware to become the most dominant attack technique. [Attacks on WordPress Sites Surge]( Defiant says it observed a 30-fold increase in attacks in just the past few days. [Maze Ransomware Operators Step Up Their Game]( Investigations show Maze ransomware operators leave "nothing to chance" when putting pressure on victims to pay. [When Achieving Deadpool Status Is a Good Thing]( It means attackers have been met with sufficient resistance that it's no longer worth their trouble and have moved on [Is CVSS the Right Standard for Prioritization?]( More than 55% of open source vulnerabilities are rated high or critical. To truly understand a vulnerability and how it might affect an organization or product, we need much more than a number. 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