Security News

Literary-minded phishers are trying to pilfer publishers’ manuscripts
2018-10-15 11:57

In a twist on Business Email Compromise, they're spoofing literary agents and going after manuscripts at Penguin Random House and Pan Macmillan.

Email Phishers Using New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Protections
2018-08-15 18:33

Phishing works no matter how hard a company tries to protect its customers or employees. Security researchers have been warning of a new phishing attack that cybercriminals and email scammers are...

Microsoft tops list of brands impersonated by phishers
2018-07-18 12:40

The number one brand spoofed by phishers in Q2 2018 in North America was Microsoft, says email security company Vade Security. The company credits the surging of adoption of Microsoft Office 365...

Office 365 users targeted by phishers employing simple HTML tricks
2018-06-22 15:39

Phishers are using a simple but effective trick to fool Microsoft’s NLP-based anti-phishing protections and Office 365 users into entering their login credentials into spoofed login pages. The...

WannaCry is back! (Psych. It's just phisher folk doing what they do)
2018-06-21 15:47

Spamming scum fire out phishing frighteners An unusually large wave of phishing emails was spewed out this morning, with recipients warned that all their devices had been infected by WannaCry.…

Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection
2018-06-19 20:18

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by...

Phishers Use 'ZeroFont' Technique to Bypass Office 365 Protections
2018-06-19 15:27

Cybercriminals have been leveraging a technique that involves manipulating font sizes in an effort to increase the chances of their phishing emails bypassing the protections implemented by...

Phishers increasingly targeting cloud storage and SaaS
2018-05-17 11:45

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has been tracking notable increases in phishing campaigns that target SAAS/webmail providers, as well as increased attacks on financial / banking targets and...

Phishers Use New Method to Bypass Office 365 Safe Links
2018-05-08 11:04

Cybercriminals have been using a new method to ensure that the URLs included in their phishing emails bypass the Safe Links security feature in Office 365, cloud security company Avanan revealed...

Phishers target Netflix users, ask for info and photo of their ID
2018-01-16 16:48

Should you send Netflix a selfie in which you hold your ID card to get your account reinstated? The answer is an emphatic no, but each one of us knows at least one person who would find the...