Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
A phishing campaign is impersonating an IT help desk and abusing legitimate cloud services to fool users, according to Ax Sharma at BleepingComputer. The emails are sent from the ...
Emotet, the venerable commodity banking Trojan, is being actively distributed again, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Emotet’s botnets began sending out phishing emails on July ...
Focused on stealing victim credentials, this new attack uses a number of tactics to establish credibility, avoid raising red flags, and ensure they get the victim’s real credentials.
The Helinski Police Department is investigating a sophisticated smishing scheme in which attackers were able to steal more than 200,000 euros (US$228,736), Yle reports. The scammers sent ...
The rise in the use of this dangerous botnet, notorious for distributing malware via phishing campaigns and responsible for fueling Sextortion scams, should put organizations on edge.
Users need to be wary of requests for information or permissions, even if they appear to come from legitimate sources, according to Don MacLennan, Senior Vice President of Engineering and ...
I’m sure we are all interested in the latest Twitter hack. As the author of the soon to be released Wiley book called Hacking Multifactor Authentication, I have to laugh at the “experts” ...
Microsoft has issued an advisory warning about “consent phishing,” or application-based phishing attacks that rely on users granting permissions to malicious apps. These attacks aren’t as ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission, through its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), issued a warning to advisors and broker-dealers to “immediately” review their ...
The latest results of KnowBe4's quarterly top-clicked phishing email subjects are in. We report on three different categories: social media related subjects, general subjects, and 'in the ...
Scammers are seeking to obtain personal information by impersonating Canadian hospital staff over the phone, NEWS 1130 reports. Vancouver Coastal Health issued an alert in which the ...
A recent phishing quiz promoted to U.K. users to see if they could identify the phish revealed dismal results where nearly all users couldn’t tell the difference 100% of the time.
Scammers are sending phishing messages on Instagram telling users to check out some edited versions of their photos, according to John Finn at Screen Rant. Finn explains that the scammers ...
New data shows just how frequently remote users are accessing risky web content that would normally be blocked by firewalls and other network monitoring solutions.
Criminals are abusing SurveyMonkey to host redirect links to an Office 365 phishing page, researchers at Abnormal Security have found. The emails contain links to a real SurveyMonkey ...
On July 3rd just before the holiday weekend, Mount Auburn Hospital's IT team identified suspicious activity. Alarmed, they quickly took steps to disconnect the Cambridge hospital's ...
While not a new tactic, vishing presents cybercriminals with an attack method that’s perfectly aligned with the pandemic shifts to remote workforces.
Microsoft Office 365 users are targeted by a new phishing campaign using fake Zoom notifications to warn those who work in corporate environments that their Zoom accounts have been ...
40% of the top twenty universities in the US aren’t using DMARC to mitigate phishing attacks that impersonate the universities’ domains, according to researchers at Tessian. Additionally, ...
Gartner observed: "Rapid responses to the coronavirus pandemic leave organizations vulnerable to security breaches. Security and risk teams must remain vigilant and focus on strategic ...
