Phishing

In The Era of Phishing and Its Prevention During this crisis “coronavirus pandemic” give those criminals a big opportunity to attract victims into taking their phishing lure. Phishing attacks are not new to the threat landscape, the first phishing email is thought to have originated around the year 1995. It has been an extremely common …

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) received over 521,582 malicious emails over the past three months. According to data obtained by think tank Parliament Street, an average of over 5000 spam, phishing and malware attacks were recorded by the organization in the three month period between June and September, while spam and junk made up the largest …

Every day, on average, 56 million phishing emails are sent, and it takes just 82 seconds for a person to be victimised by such attacks. Phishing is one of the oldest yet effective forms of a cybersecurity threat. Over time it has graduated from scamming emails from a Nigerian prince to more sophisticated and sly …

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A phishing attack taking place against an organization has revealed a crafty method to bounce between victims in a way deemed “ingenious” by a researcher.  On September 29, cybersecurity architect and bug bounty hunter Craig Hays outlined a recent phishing attempt which went far beyond the usual spray-and-pray tactics and basic attempts to compromise a …

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Phishing has been with us for many years. Just as almost no one falls for the Nigerian inheritance email scam any longer (well, for the most part), you would expect that phishing was ready to fade into the security threat sunset. But the KnowBe4 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report 2020 paints a very different picture. …

Phishing has been with us for many years. Just as almost no one falls for the Nigerian inheritance email scam any longer (well, for the most part), you would expect that phishing was ready to fade into the security threat sunset. But the KnowBe4 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report 2020 paints a very different picture. …

Phishing has been with us for many years. Just as almost no one falls for the Nigerian inheritance email scam any longer (well, for the most part), you would expect that phishing was ready to fade into the security threat sunset. But the KnowBe4 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report 2020 paints a very different picture. …

NIST’s tool can help organizations improve the testing of their employees’ phish-spotting prowess Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a new method that could be used to accurately assess why employees click on certain phishing emails. The tool, dubbed Phish Scale, uses real data to evaluate the complexity …

Phishing ranks low on the list of cyberattacks in terms of technological sophistication. Even more sophisticated phishing variants like spear phishing (focused and often personalized phishing attacks) and whaling (phishing attacks focused on high-profile or high-dollar targets) are focused more on social engineering than on technology. [ Check out these 11 phishing prevention tips for …

CHICAGO (WLS) — Phishing emails are one way scammers try to get your information. One of their latest tactics is by using a fake Amazon email about a shipping order. Jason Knowles with the ABC7 Chicago I-Team offers some quick tips about what the fraudsters are trying to do and how you can try to …

U.S. authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges. The Justice Department unsealed indictments against Russian nationals Danil Potekhin and …

While cyber attackers chase down system vulnerabilities and valuable data each passing day, the business world has taken the measures against them. The latest trends and cybersecurity statistics reveal that data from various sources, especially mobile and IoT devices, is targeted and attacked. Organizations face the risk of data loss due to unprotected data and …

James King was scanning his email inbox when he spotted an unexpected message that said “David” tagged him in a photo and asked him to click a link to see the picture. While normally suspicious of vague messages, King had good reason to believe this was real. His manager’s name is David, and his team …

Attackers using a novel credential phishing attack that leverages Active Directory to verify a victim’s password and gain access to an Office 365 account targeted a top financial person in a division of a large American corporation. Once inside a victim’s account, bad actors could access sensitive financial documents, emails, calendar items and contact lists, …

It seems that criminals using phishing tactics have found a new hotbed – Canada! RSA’s Fraud Quarterly report states that virtually 70 percent of fraud phishing attacks are targeted at Canadians. Although several surveys have demonstrated that phishing in Canada is increasing, most experts are unsure of why the sudden increase in Canada-specific attacks. On …

Phishing scams continue to play on the popularity of remote working and collaboration tools, as scammers seek to take advantage of unwitting victims. A recent report from Sophos indicates one of the most recent tactics attackers are using to conduct their scams uses collaborative platforms SharePoint and OneNote. Sophos researchers say that the attackers take a …

A trove of data relating to 186,000 customers of an Australian state government agency has been stolen in an attack that targeted employee email accounts. The attack, reported today, involved Service NSW, an arm of the New South Wales government that providers one-stop access to government services. The theft of data took place in April and …

Savvy cybercriminals who specialize in phishing attacks are continually devising new strategies to lend greater authenticity to their handiwork. The goal is to concoct phishing emails and landing pages so convincing that they can fool even the most sharp-eyed user. A new phishing campaign described by phishing awareness provider Cofense in a Friday blog post …