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Phishing

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

New Threat Actor Impersonates the Red Cross to Deliver Malware

Researchers at NSFOCUS are tracking a phishing campaign by a new threat actor called “AtlasCross” that’s impersonating the Red Cross in order to deliver malware.

Ukrainian Military Targeted in Sophisticated Phishing Attack Using Drone Manuals

Securonix is tracking a phishing campaign that’s targeting the Ukrainian military with malware-laden attachments posing as drone instruction manuals. The threat actor is using Microsoft ...

New Wave of Hospitality Phishing Attacks: Compromise User Credentials, Then Go Phish

The hospitality sector is seeing a new wave of phishing attacks. These new attacks are more plausible because they begin with compromised credentials and move to fraudulent emails sent ...

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Cybercriminals Use Google Looker Studio to Host Crypto Scam to Steal Money and Credentials

Security researchers at Check Point have discovered yet another attack that leverages legitimate web applications to host attacks in order to bypass security scanners.

Tools From Cybercrime Software Vendor W3LL Found to be Behind the Compromise of 56K Microsoft 365 Accounts

A new report uncovers the scope and sophistication found in just one cybercrime vendor’s business that has aided credential harvesting and impersonation attacks for the last 6 years.

MFA Defenses Fall Victim to New Phishing-As-A-Service Offerings

ZeroFox warns that phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) offerings are increasingly including features to bypass multi-factor authentication.

Vanishing Act: The Secret Weapon Cybercriminals Use in Your Inbox

Researchers at Barracuda describe how attackers use legitimate email inbox rules to control compromised accounts and evade detection.

Scam-as-a-Service Classiscam Expands Impersonation in Attacks to Include Over 250 Brands

Now entering its third year in business, the phishing platform, Classicam, represents the highest evolution of an “as a service” cybercrime, aiding more than 1000 attack groups worldwide.

USPS Customers Become the Latest Target of the Chinese Smishing Group Called “Smishing Triad”

A new SMS-based phishing attack uses a smishing kit-as-a-service to impersonate the U.S. Postal Service.