Why Should We Care About Personal Smishing Attacks?
I am not sure what is going on these days, but for several weeks, I have received far more SMS-based phishing (i.e., smishing) attacks than usual.
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Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
I am not sure what is going on these days, but for several weeks, I have received far more SMS-based phishing (i.e., smishing) attacks than usual.
Scammers are targeting Rogers customers with text messages offering $50 refunds, according to BleepingComputer. The Canadian telecommunications provider suffered a widespread outage last ...
Cybercriminals are using a new malicious document builder dubbed “EtterSilent,” according to researchers at Intel 471. The builder is used to craft Microsoft Office documents with macros ...
North Korea’s Lazarus group is using an interesting method to evade security measures, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. The threat actor is sending phishing emails with malicious ...
Attackers are abusing websites’ contact forms to send malicious emails to the websites’ owners, according to researchers at Microsoft. The emails contain bogus copyright claims with a ...
Security researchers uncover a marketing campaign that takes a page from the cybercriminal phishing handbook to “trick” pensioners to have an introductory call with their fund expert.
New data from Palo Alto Network’s Unit42 provides a wealth of insight into specifically how cybercriminals have leveraged COVID-related theming to ensure a successful phishing attack.
KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. These are broken down into three different categories: social media related subjects, general subjects, ...
Researchers at INKY warn that targeted phishing attacks will continue throughout 2021, as some employees return to the office and others continue working from home. They predict that ...
Earlier this week, DocuSign issued an alert that notified users of a new hacking tool. This tool is imitating DocuSign so then the bad guys can drop malware into victims' systems.
The rise in cyberattacks in Australia is seeing its natural result – organisations realizing the need to put more budget focused on cybersecurity, with the largest portion going towards ...
Microsoft Security Intelligence warns of phishing attacks being sent from legitimate email addresses and IP ranges, taking advantage of gateway configuration settings to ensure delivery.
Phishing attacks using PDF files have spiked over the past year, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.
Researchers at Avanan have observed a phishing campaign that’s impersonating the WeTransfer file-sharing app in an attempt to steal users’ credentials. The email’s subject line states, ...
The 360 security blog just came up with an eye opener. Recently, 360 Security Center’s threat monitoring platform has detected a new email phishing attack. This attack uses a ...
Users in the UK should be on the lookout for census-themed phishing attacks, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. Participating in the census is mandatory in the UK, and people ...
People need to be wary of travel-related phishing as the pandemic draws to a close, according to Fleming Shi, Chief Technology Officer at Barracuda Networks. On the CyberWire’s Hacking ...
A new highly-targeted phishing campaign is seeking to compromise the online credentials of those with influence within an organization using an Office 365-themed update attack.
According to data released by StockApps, the annual loss from any type of cybercrime in the US reached $4.2 billion in 2020. This turns into billions of dollars lost, and a 55% increase ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued an alert warning about a phishing scam targeting university students. A link in the emails leads to a phishing site that asks users to enter ...
