Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is putting out an alert about ongoing Coronavirus-themed phishing attacks that impersonate the WHO and try to steal confidential information and ...
The recent attack on a Dutch university demonstrates much of what IT organizations shouldn’t do to avoid an attack.
SMS scammers are posing as Verizon Wireless and sending text messages telling recipients to click a link to validate their account security, according to Chris Hoffman at How-To Geek. ...
The FBI’s annual year-in-review breaks down how 467,000 cyber attacks succeeded in taking consumers and businesses alike for billions of dollars.
Once again, it was the human factor and skilled phishing tactics from the bad guys that was responsible for such a material loss. And, from the sound of it, policy and procedure either ...
With cybercriminals always looking for the most successful way to carry out a successful attack, phishing once again proves to be one of the most adaptable and viable attack vectors.
The latest data from Malwarebyte’s annual State of Malware Report shows increases almost across the board, showing that the bad guys are stepping on the gas into 2020.
An ongoing PayPal phishing campaign is trying to steal a wide range of personal information, including Social Security numbers and passport photos, Threatpost reports. The scams were ...
Four hackers have been charged with hacking the U.S. credit reporting agency where data on U.S. citizens and proprietary Equifax secrets were stolen.
New data from Barracuda shows attackers take their time to leverage the credential compromise and to avoid detection when taking over email accounts.
Scary news stories in the headlines always bring out the bad guys looking to make a quick illegal buck.
People wanting to watch high-profile movies are the latest target in scams that trick users into offering up credit card details for a chance to download films not yet available for ...
Someone went on a ‘phishing expedition’ trying to trick a Trenton School Board of Education member into transferring thousands of dollars into their account, but a Trenton School ...
A new PayPal SMS phishing campaign is making the rounds, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. The text messages in this campaign purport to come from PayPal and inform recipients ...
More than half of the people who have Kingston school district email accounts opened a potentially damaging phishing email sent to them by a firm that's helping the district gauge ...
Here are a few important updates to share with you from the month of January.
There was an unsuccessful phishing attempt that security professional Jeffrey Ladish almost fell for. Jeffrey was house searching and was looking on Craigslist and Zillow for rental ...
Cyber crime has become an arms race where the bad guys constantly evolve their attacks while you, the vigilant defender, must diligently expand your know how to prevent intrusions into ...
A large phishing campaign is distributing malicious Excel documents and utilizing irritating pop-ups to trick users into enabling macros, researchers at Lastline have found. The campaign ...
Just when you thought everyone forgot about participation on the ill-famed cheaters website, a new phishing scam looks to use the breached data as the basis for extorting the site’s users.
