Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
It’s the start of tax season. This is the time of year when we collect our receipts and tax forms and hope for a nice big refund from the U.S. government. Unfortunately, cybercriminals ...
Researchers at Check Point have found malicious apps in the Google Play Store that will download Trojans to infected devices.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released their annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an ...
March 17, 2021 — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have observed continued targeting through spear phishing campaigns ...
No matter how good your policies and technical defenses are, some amount of phishing will get to your end users in a given month. They must be trained to recognize social engineering ...
From spear phishing attacks, to malicious domains, to credential-hunting – as I predicted, COVID vaccines are the hot attack theme right now from just about every angle.
Taxes are unavoidable, and unfortunately, so are the annual tax-related phishing scams. This year, with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to keep people working from home, cybercriminals ...
Business-related applications like Zoom, Microsoft, and DocuSign are the most commonly spoofed services in phishing attacks, according to a new report from GreatHorn. Business apps made ...
Shifts to a remote workforce in 2020 gave cybercriminals an opportunity to change tactics, focusing on credentialed access to systems accessed from outside government networks.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has warned of a phishing campaign that’s trying to trick users into responding to a phony regulatory non-compliance issue. The emails ...
Researchers at Zscaler warn of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting executives with fake voicemail notifications. More than half of the phishing emails have targeted organizations’ vice ...
The use of impersonation in phishing attacks helps to establish credibility and a sense of ease. New data shows exactly how the bad guys are using this tactic to their advantage.
A new social engineering scam demonstrates how cybercriminals are both evolving their tactics while still using tried and true methods that just work to attain their goals.
57% of phishing emails in 2020 were designed for stealing credentials, according to Cofense’s most recent Annual State of Phishing Report. Meanwhile, just 12% of phishing attacks last ...
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has issued a warning regarding an increase in email and SMS phishing attacks, the Chronicle reports. Dr. Gift ...
A new phishing campaign is impersonating Zoom in order to steal users’ Outlook credentials, according to researchers at GreatHorn. The attackers are using phishing URLs that spoof Zoom’s ...
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) recently measured the number of reports of data theft in 2020 and the number of attacks skyrocketed. The report documented that it increased no ...
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) released an advisory warning that scammers are impersonating its employees in an attempt to steal social security numbers and money. The ...
The latest data from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (AWPG) shows massive gains in phishing attacks in Q4 of last year, quantifying the growth and setting the expectation of what’s to ...
New data from phishing detection vendor Inky highlights which brands are most often used by cybercriminals in phishing attacks that will give them the edge needed for a successful phish.
