"Voice Phishing" in Korea This Year Already Exceeds 2017 Numbers.

The Korea JoonGang Daily reported that despite warnings from financial authorities, an average of 116 people fall victim to what is called "voice phishing" scams every day in Korea.

September 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Weaponized IQY Files Make Excel Users an Easy Target

The Necurs botnet – most notably responsible for distributing Locky – is now pushing weaponized internet or web query (.IQY) file to evade detection and download malware.

September 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Only 40% of Business Phishing Scams Contain Links

This latest statistic takes the spotlight off of antivirus as the protector, and puts the focus squarely in the hands of your users to stop attacks.

August 31, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Mobile Phishing Campaign: Homograph Characters + "Free Flights"

Kacy Zurkus at the InfoSec group had the scoop on a campaign recently reported by Farsight Security involving an internationalized domain name (IDN) "homograph-based" phishing website ...

August 30, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Google Warns of Govt-Backed Phishing

This latest heads-up around phishing-based warfare from a source as reputable as Google show the need to both be watchful for and responsive to phishing attacks.

August 25, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Universities Are Still Targeted With Phishing Attacks By Iranian Hackers

Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers reported that despite indictments in March 2018, the Iranian threat group is likely responsible for a large-scale campaign that ...

August 23, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Democratic National Committee Thought it was Under Attack (It Was A Red Team Phishing Test...)

The FBI received a report from the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) that unknown actors sought access to a voter database through a phishing campaign.

August 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] Russian Hackers Widen Their Cyber Attacks Again With Spear Phishing Political Targets

The GRU, the Russian military intelligence spy agency which was responsible for the 2016 election cyber attacks, is at it again and are now targeting the U.S. Senate and conservative ...

August 17, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing is Still the #1 Cyber-Fraud Tactic

Online, e-commerce and mobile fraud are on the rise, according to RSA, with 41% of successful attacks enabled by phishing scams.

August 16, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: SharePoint Phishing Attack On Office 365 Users

The attack dubbed “PhishPoint” by Cloud Security vendor Avanan demonstrates the craftiness and extent cybercriminals will go to in order to harvest Office 365 credentials.

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