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Phishing

Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.

Abusing App Engine to Automate Phishing

Attackers can abuse a feature in Google App Engine to generate unlimited phishing URLs, BleepingComputer reports. Security researcher Marcel Afrahim found that App Engine URLs that ...

Credential Stuffing to Stuff the Ballot Box

Advanced nation-state actors and petty criminals are both leveraging credential-stuffing attacks to hack into victims’ accounts, according to Byron Acohido, writing for Avast. Rather than ...

Bitcoin Millionaire Loses $16 Million to a Compromised Wallet and Simple Social Engineering

This brief tale of misfortune shows how unpatched software and letting your guard down – especially when $16 million is on the line – can be all that’s needed for a successful scam.

Beware of Fake Forwarded Phishes

There are many specific, heightened challenges of spear phishing emails coming from compromised, trusted third parties. Trusted third-party phishing emails usually come from the ...

When Phishing And Disinformation Meet

The Insider reported that QAnon is co-opting a USPS phishing scam, and claim the Vishing text messages are linked to human trafficking. "A viral [text] phishing scheme is targeting people ...

How to Become a Harder Target From Malicious Threat Actors

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an advisory regarding threat actors associated with China’s Ministry of State ...

High-Profile Caper Spawns Phishing Campaign

A phishing campaign is using the recent Twitter hack as phishbait, HackRead reports. In mid-July, hackers used social engineering against Twitter employees to gain access to more than a ...

Funds Transfer Fraud Has Increased 35% Since the Onset of COVID-19

With reported losses from thousands of dollars to well over $1 million, funds transfer fraud represents 27% of cyber insurance claims in 2020.

Business Email Compromise attacks increase 67% Leading to Fraud, Ransomware, and Data Breaches

Involved in 60% of cybersecurity insurance claims, Business Email Compromise (BEC) is growing in interest by cybercriminals as the initial malicious action as part of a larger attack.

CISA’s Advice on Countering Phishing

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an advisory on best practices to thwart email-based phishing attacks. The ...