Phishing attacks are getting harder to spot, especially as more attackers realize the value of targeted, well-crafted phishing attacks, according to Johannes Ullrich, the dean of research ...
Researchers at Lookout have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including UNICEF and the Red Cross. The infrastructure ...
Heimdal Security has come across a phishing campaign that uses compromised accounts to target Microsoft users. The attackers use email and social media accounts they’ve already breached ...
A new report from the National Cyber Security Alliance sheds some light on how prepared small and medium size businesses are and what the aftermath of a data breach really looks like.
FBI has updated and expanded the resources and tools designed to help political campaigns, private businesses, and individuals to better understand and mitigate risks posed by foreign ...
It’s “disturbingly easy” to steal someone’s personal data using information gleaned from their social media accounts, according to Donie O’Sullivan at CNN. O’Sullivan met with Rachel ...
Cofense warns of a phishing campaign going after credentials for the Stripe online payment platform. The attackers are sending emails purporting to be from Stripe Support, telling the ...
KnowBe4 reports on the top-clicked phishing emails by subject lines each quarter in three different categories: subjects related to social media, general subjects, and 'In the Wild' - we ...
The BBC reports a tech support scam that caused a British man, Doug Varey, to lose £4,000. The scam began when Mr. Varey saw an online ad for twelve years’ worth of computer security ...
While most phishing campaigns involve email, SMS text messages are an ideal alternative for attackers, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. Text messages are brief and uniform in ...
TechCrunch reported that shipping tech giant Pitney Bowes has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems.
Ars Technica is on a roll lately with some very good articles! Here is another one that made me go "Yikes!"
It can be useful to remember that social engineering succeeds much better when its marks are stressed or hurried. That appears to be the case with an ongoing scam campaign that lays its ...
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People shouldn’t let news of data breaches dissuade them from trying to protect their information, according to security researcher Ray [REDACTED]. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Human ...
A woman in Wales lost £1,000 to a scammer who posed as a police officer and threatened that she would lose her children if she didn’t pay the money within an hour, Wales Online reports. ...
Having spent over a decade as part of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence and the Counterterrorism Mission Center, Rosa Smothers knows the ins and outs of leading cyber operations ...
New phishing attacks are imitating performance appraisals in order to steal employees’ credentials, according to IBM SecurityIntelligence. The attackers are posing as HR employees and ...
Ransomware attacks have increasingly been going after high-value data in order to extract larger ransoms from victims, according to the well-known law firm Cooley. This trend was ...
