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A phishing scam is leveraging a fake list of undelivered emails to trick users into clicking and exposing their login credentials. Bleeping Computer first discovered the phishing scam when it received an email bearing the following subject line: “Notifications | undelivered emails to your inbox.” The body of the email displayed what appeared to be …

WAPA CEO Lawrence Kupfer (Photo by Barry Leerdam for the V.I. Legislature) On two occasions in 2018, the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) was the victim of a Business Email Compromise (BEC) — an instance where a fictitious email appears authentic. These incidents resulted in payments totaling $2.17 million being authorized and sent …

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading… The list of the top phishing attacks and BEC scams and what made them so successful Phishing is one of the most vicious and dangerous threats to your businesses — regardless of whether you’re a large corporation, a small business, or something in-between. The most successful phishing …

Dive Brief: Security researchers unlocked a phishing attack capable of sidestepping two-factor authentication (2FA), according to a YouTube video from Hack in the Box Security Conference last Month, reports Fortune. Attacks are automated using a combination of Muraena and NecroBrowser. Muraena works as a proxy between the target individual and the website they’re attempting to …

Dive Brief: Security researchers unlocked a phishing attack capable of sidestepping two-factor authentication (2FA), according to a YouTube video from Hack in the Box Security Conference last Month, reports Fortune. Attacks are automated using a combination of Muraena and NecroBrowser. Muraena works as a proxy between the target individual and the website they’re attempting to …

Phishing attacks are on the rise ZDNet’s Danny Palmer sits down with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby to discuss the rising number of phishing attacks and preventative measures you need to be taking. Read more: https://zd.net/2C6rIVO A security company has detailed how a con artist who began his cyber-criminal career as a simple Craigslist romance scammer has …

Two-factor authentication, the added security step that requires people enter a code sent to their phone or email, has traditionally worked to keep usernames and passwords safe from phishing attacks. However, security experts have demonstrated an automated phishing attack that can cut through that added layer of security—also called 2FA—potentially tricking unsuspecting users into sharing …

Penetration testers and attackers have a new tool in their arsenal that can be used to automate phishing attacks in a way that defeats two-factor authentication (2FA) and is not easy to detect and block. The tool makes such attacks much easier to deploy, so organizations should adapt their anti-phishing training accordingly. [ Check out …

A new phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be a list undelivered email being held for you on your Outlook Web Mail service. Users are then prompted to decide what they wish to do with each mail, with the respective links leading to a fake login form. Recently, we have seen quite a few …

Nearly all businesses have suffered some form of phishing attack during the past year, according to new reports. Research from Mimecast found that 94 per cent of organisations experienced either phishing or spear phishing attacks in the past 12 months – which for half of them was an increase on the previous year. Overall it …

A new phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be from the “Office 365 Team” warning you that your email account cancellation has been approved and that all your email will be deleted unless you cancel the request within the hour. This particular phishing campaign is interesting as it uses an uncommon bait of the …

A new phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be from the “Office 365 Team” warning you that your email account cancellation has been approved and that all your email will be deleted unless you cancel the request within the hour. This particular phishing campaign is interesting as it uses an uncommon bait of the …

Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated infractions. As this was …

It’s no secret that if you have a cloud-based e-mail service, fighting off the barrage of security issues has become a maddening daily routine. The leading e-mail service – in Microsoft’s Office 365 package – seems to be getting the most attention from those attackers hellbent on stealing enterprise data or your private information via phishing …

It’s no secret that if you have a cloud-based e-mail service, fighting off the barrage of security issues has become a maddening daily routine. The leading e-mail service – in Microsoft’s Office 365 package – seems to be getting the most attention from those attackers hellbent on stealing enterprise data or your private information via phishing …

Did you think your mobile browser protected you from phishing attacks? A research project called PhishFarm suggests otherwise, claiming that mobile browsers protected by Google’s anti-phishing mechanism failed to detect any phishing sites between mid-2017 and late 2018. The study came from the Laboratory of Security Engineering for Future Computing (SEFCOM) (part of the Center …

Users of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and webmail services are being targeted with increasing frequency, according to the APWG Q1 2019 Phishing Activity Trends Report. The category became the biggest target in Q1, accounting for 36 percent of all phishing attacks, for the first time eclipsing the payment-services category which suffered 27 percent of attacks recorded in …

The relentless ingenuity that drives cyber hacking is a global engine that knows no rest. Anyone with a laptop and run-of-the-mill computer smarts can buy or rent a phishing kit and start attacking – or it can be done by professionals with increasingly devious techniques. For cyber-crooks, it’s a numbers game: the one in 10,000 …

The relentless ingenuity that drives cyber hacking is a global engine that knows no rest. Anyone with a laptop and run-of-the-mill computer smarts can buy or rent a phishing kit and start attacking – or it can be done by professionals with increasingly devious techniques. For cyber-crooks, it’s a numbers game: the one in 10,000 …

For more than a year, mobile browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari failed to show any phishing warnings to users, according to a research paper published this week. “We identified a gaping hole in the protection of top mobile web browsers,” the research team said. “Shockingly, mobile Chrome, Safari, and Firefox failed to show …