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Researchers are warning of an upward surge in social-engineering lures in malicious emails that promise victims financial relief during the coronavirus pandemic. The slew of campaigns piggy-back on news of governments mulling financial relief packages, in response to the economic stall brought on by consumers social distance themselves. This latest trend shows cybercriminals continuing to …
Menlo Security has detected a sophisticated, multi-stage attack leveraging the current COVID-19 pandemic. Our data has shown that COVID-19–based attacks are much more successful than typical phishing attacks. The global pandemic is literally a life-or-death situation that is changing constantly, and people are trying to stay up to date with the latest developments. Cybercriminals have …
Cyber criminals are trying to trick Zoom users as the video-conferencing platform surges in popularity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic forcing people to work – and socialise – remotely. March saw the number of daily Zoom meeting participants reach over 200 million, compared to 10 million in December, as people turn to the …
Lookout, a California-based provider of mobile phishing solutions, has found two new COVID-19 phishing scams. On Twitter, Lookout’s Phishing AI detailed its findings of live phishing sites targeting the website of the French General Directorate of Public Finance, the branch of the French government responsible for handing out support to micro-businesses and independent workers in the COVID-19 …
As the world battles with the Coronavirus offline, there are plenty of cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the situation online. With so many people locked indoors and hence, online, there has been a 600 percent rise in phishing campaigns in the last month. If you’ve had a flood of emails asking for donations for …
Phishing emails have spiked by over 600% since the end of February as cyber-criminals look to capitalize on the fear and uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Barracuda Networks. The security vendor observed just 137 incidents in January, rising to 1188 in February and 9116 so far in March. Around 2% of the …
A cyberattack that targeted the World Health Organization (WHO) is probably just the tip of the iceberg according to experts reacting to the news this week. Reuters first broke the news that a hacking group had targeted WHO, which is the UN agency responsible for international public health. It has played a central role in …
Fraudsters exploit concerns by claiming to offer virus-related information or promising stimulus checks. Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the spread of COVID-19 with new phishing emails that pretend to offer information about the virus or request money or data from concerned victims. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued an alert late last week to …
Fraudsters exploit concerns by claiming to offer virus-related information or promising stimulus checks. Cybercriminals are capitalizing on the spread of COVID-19 with new phishing emails that pretend to offer information about the virus or request money or data from concerned victims. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued an alert late last week to …
The coronavirus outbreak has exposed a new pathway for hackers to prey on vulnerable victims, Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC’s Jim Cramer Friday. “We’ve seen a real uptick in phishing campaigns using COVID-19 and malware associated with that in these emails,” Kurtz said in a “Mad Money” interview. “When there’s chaos and there’s this fear in the street that’s …
For malicious people, preying on collective fear and misinformation is nothing new. Mentioning national headlines can lend a veneer of credibility to scams. We’ve seen this tactic time and again, so it’s no surprise that COVID-19 themed social media and email campaigns have been popping up online. This blogpost provides an overview to help you …
Cybercriminals are capitalising on Coronavirus (COVID-19) to send fake email and SMS phishing attacks that could infect computers or lead to the theft of logins and personal information. An SMS-based phishing attack sent to Australians this week with the sender of “GOV” claimed the receiver had a “new message regarding the COVID-19 safetyline symptoms”. The …
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Researchers are warning of an increase in phishing emails that use YouTube redirect links, which help attackers skirt traditional defense measures. If certain malicious URLs are blocked by web browser phishing filters, attackers commonly use a redirector URL to bypass these filters and redirect the victim to their phishing landing page. URL redirects have been …
Visibility into phishing attacks by content delivery networks and security firms shows many domains fail to be classified as malicious. More than 20% of the sites used for phishing are not detected by current blacklists as malicious, even days after the start of an attack, according to new research published by internet-services firm Akamai. The …
Business email compromise (BEC) and phishing scams are two of the most common tactics used by cyber criminals to infiltrate business networks and cause havoc in the form of wire transfer fraud, data encryption, planting ransomware, and even blackmailing or coercing employees to perform unwarranted actions. It’s a cyber risk that’s well and truly on …
(iStockphoto) VUIT is actively responding to an intense phishing campaign that started on Thursday, March 5. Several VU accounts have already been compromised. VUIT has identified over 50,000 emails that were sent to VU and VUMC accounts with a subject line and body similar to the following: Hello, There’s an ongoing survey recruitment exercise for part-time …
If you didn’t have enough to worry about with the new coronavirus, here’s one more thing: Scammers are using the outbreak to steal your information through phishing attempts or to lure you into downloading a different kind of virus. Cybersecurity firm Check Point announced today that over 4,000 coronavirus-related domains — that is, they contain …
Spear phishing attacks are difficult to detect automatically because they use targeted language that appears “normal” to both detection algorithms and users themselves. Today’s approaches to detecting such emails rely mainly on heuristics, which look for “risky” words in emails, like ‘payment,’ ‘urgent,’ or ‘wire’. Unfortunately, such methods fail when adversaries make word choices or use …
Photo: Getty The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued an alert regarding the potential for a cyber response from Iran after U.S. military strikes. The alert acts as a primer for protecting critical infrastructure, complete with recommended actions — mainly heightened awareness, vigilance and processes — as well as proactive technical recommendations to reduce …