Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
Seeing successful attacks as frequently as one per day, the creators of ProLock seek out larger organizations using the QBot trojan to infiltrate, spread throughout, and infect a network.
The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...
Researchers at Menlo Security have identified a phishing site that uses three layers of visual captchas to evade detection by automated security crawlers. Captchas are brief tests on ...
A few days ago in a Medium blog post, Craig Hays, a cybersecurity architect and bug bounty hunter described a recent phishing new type of attempt which turned out to become "the greatest ...
Both criminal and nation-state threat actors have “rapidly increased in sophistication” over the past twelve months, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report. Microsoft found that ...
Once a scammer tricks their victim out of web credentials, credit card details, or online access to a bank account, the details collected are worth plenty by simply selling them on the ...
Attacks involving what is arguably the world’s most dangerous malware are on the rise, with reports from the cybersecurity agencies in Japan, New Zealand, and France.
As the bad guys look for new ways to wreak havoc, cybersecurity experts at NTT global predict attacks pre-, during, and post-election should be expected.
A phishing campaign is targeting AT&T employees and contractors with a well-crafted fake login page, according to Luke Leal at Sucuri. The phishing page is a near-exact replica of ...
State, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies and municipalities are under attack. Observations and data from security vendor BlueVoyant highlight the attacks and the results.
Yesterday at the end of the day, I was called by our PR team who got alerted by tech support about a Twitter post that was going viral. Turns out a custom phishing test created by one of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With reported losses from thousands of dollars to well over $1 million, funds transfer fraud represents 27% of cyber insurance claims in 2020.
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.
