Security News

Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers
2019-08-30 16:21

Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the...

Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher
2019-08-27 09:56

Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years, 8 months, and reimbursement for victims.

Phishers targeting Office 365 admins have a new trick up their sleeve
2019-07-24 05:15

Phishers targeting Office 365 admins have a new trick up their sleeve: they are checking the credentials entered into the spoofed login page in real-time and, if they are valid, the victims are...

Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data
2019-05-23 10:05

Haul included employee passports, driving licences, bank statements and more The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance...

What will phishers do once push-based MFA becomes widely used?
2019-05-06 09:50

As phishing continues to be the number one method for initiating a breach, investing in anti-phishing technologies or training – preferably both – should be a no-brainer for most companies. As...

Cybercriminals targeting social media: Facebook and Instagram are becoming phishers’ favorites
2019-05-03 05:15

Social media phishing, primarily Facebook and Instagram, saw the highest quarter- over-quarter growth of any industry with a 74.7 percent increase, according to the Vade Secure Phishers’ Favorites...

Indian outsourcing giant Wipro confirms flushing phishers from systems
2019-04-16 09:50

Reported to be stepping stone for attacks on customers Indian IT outsourcing behemoth Wipro admitted this morning to falling victim to a "sophisticated" phishing attack.…

Phishers shift efforts to attack SaaS and webmail services
2019-03-05 07:10

There was some good news and some bad news for the Internet-using public in early 2019. The good news is that the total number of conventional, spam-based phishing campaigns declined as 2018 came...

Week in review: Formjacking, flawed password managers, phishers’ new trick
2019-02-24 18:23

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: IT security incidents affecting German critical infrastructure are on the rise In 2017, the German Federal Office for...

Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters
2019-02-20 11:51

Phishers have come up with another trick to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many e-mail security services: they delete the links from the document’s relationship...