Brand Impersonation of Microsoft Increases 50% in One Quarter
The use of the Microsoft brand in phishing attacks demonstrates both its widespread credibility as well as the continued success of attacks leveraging it.
Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
The use of the Microsoft brand in phishing attacks demonstrates both its widespread credibility as well as the continued success of attacks leveraging it.
Analysis of current phishing attacks by security researchers have uncovered an increase in the use of trusted shortlink services.
Researchers at Barracuda have found that smaller companies tend to receive a higher rate of phishing attacks spread across the organization, according to a report looking at the phishing ...
Researchers at Bitdefender have found that half of all travel-themed spam emails contain scams.
New data shows that cyber attacks have resulted in double the number of data breaches in 2024 than throughout all of 2023.
A new cybercriminal group is selling “a sophisticated AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform” that targets 36 Spanish banks, according to researchers at Group-IB.
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42 are tracking phishing attacks exploiting interest in generative AI tools. The researchers observed spikes in suspicious domain registrations ...
Organizations need to be aware of the threat posed by QR code phishing (quishing), according to researchers at Trend Micro.
A new phishing scam is leveraging trusted aspects of ecommerce to make their scams look legitimate.
As expected, threat actors are taking advantage of the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last Friday, SC Media reports.
Declared “dead” by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2023, the Russian cyber crime group Fin7 is impersonating some of the top global brands.
Several threat actors are abusing legitimate cloud services to launch phishing attacks against users in Latin America, according to Google’s latest Threat Horizons Report.
Organizations should expect to see phishing attacks exploiting the global IT outage that occurred last Friday, the Business Post reports.
I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. But first: Our ...
Phishing is used to completely compromise the victim’s environment after other repeated methods failed.
Our friends at the CyberWire reported: "ZeroFox and Fortinet have both published reports on threats facing the 2024 Olympics in Paris. ZeroFox says the primary cybersecurity threat will ...
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued an advisory warning of phishing campaigns targeting car dealerships. The IRS says car dealers should be on the lookout for targeted ...
Phishing remains a top initial access vector for ransomware actors, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The threat actors often use phishing to steal legitimate credentials so they ...
Pictures of Donald Trump rushed from a campaign stage, his cheek brushed with blood from an assassination attempt, are an unsettling shock.
Researchers at Abnormal Security have observed a 360% increase in phishing attacks against state and local government entities over the past year.