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Proofpoint researchers have spotted and documented email phishing campaigns targeting US companies in a variety of industries with emails impersonating Zoom and Cisco. "Not only are attackers using video conferencing brands as a lure for malware, but they're using it for credential phishing, in particular to steal Zoom and Webex credentials."
With so many people and organizations using Microsoft Office 365, phishers who exploit this brand can target a vast amount of people as a way to steal their account credentials, as described by Vade Secure. Phishing attacks that exploit Office 365 come in different varieties, according to Adrien Gendre, chief solutions architect at Vade Secure.
Nurses are among the groups most heavily targeted by email scammers because of the value of the data they can access, according to email security biz Proofpoint's Adenike Cosgrove. Cosgrove, an infosec strategist for Proofpoint, told The Register that not only are nurses and other frontline healthcare professionals at the top of phishing target lists, but that a healthcare worker asked her for advice on security best practice - rather than her own organisation's security team.
The latest example of the latter are fake emails purportedly coming from the World Health Organisation, which is, ironically, engeaged in fighting an "Infodemic" of fake coronavirs-themed news online. It also shows a simple pop-up asking the potential victim to "Verify" their email by entering their email address and password.
83 users have already been affected by 65 malicious files disguised as copies of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker according to Kaspersky.
Phishing scammers have once again targeted users of the popular Steam gaming service, it was revealed this week.
PayPal has overtaken Microsoft to claim the number one ranking for phisher’s favorites for the first time. Netflix was not far behind as the streaming giant moved up to the third spot with a 14.1...
What were the phishers after? People's login details for Office 365.
Researchers have brought to light a longstanding phishing campaign aimed at the UN and its various networks, and a variety of humanitarian organizations, NGOs, universities and think tanks. Some...
SF-based continuous delivery outfit says soz Software testing and delivery company CircleCI has apologised for exposing user data to the world and its dog.…