Security News

Microsoft Teams phishing attack alerts coming to everyone next month
2025-01-27 17:43

Microsoft reminded Microsoft 365 admins that its new brand impersonation protection feature for Teams Chat will be available for all customers by mid-February 2025. [...]

Phishing Emails Targeting Australian Firms Rise by 30% in 2024
2025-01-23 19:16

For the APAC region as a whole, credential phishing attacks rose by 30.5% between 2023 and 2024.

Ransomware gangs pose as IT support in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks
2025-01-21 15:59

Ransomware gangs are increasingly adopting email bombing followed by posing as tech support in Microsoft Teams calls to trick employees into allowing remote control and install malware that...

New 'Sneaky 2FA' Phishing Kit Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts with 2FA Code Bypass
2025-01-17 10:07

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing kit that's capable of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to steal credentials and two-factor authentication...

Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts
2025-01-16 19:15

FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Star Blizzard, a prolific phishing crew backed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), conducted a new campaign aiming to...

Russian Star Blizzard Targets WhatsApp Accounts in New Spear-Phishing Campaign
2025-01-16 18:12

The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims' WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in...

Phishing False Alarm
2025-01-15 12:00

A very security-conscious company was hit with a (presumed) massive state-actor phishing attack with gift cards, and everyone rallied to combat it—until it turned out it was company management...

Phishing texts trick Apple iMessage users into disabling protection
2025-01-12 19:31

Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage's built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links. [...]

CrowdStrike Warns of Phishing Scam Targeting Job Seekers with XMRig Cryptominer
2025-01-10 09:09

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is alerting of a phishing campaign that exploits its own branding to distribute a cryptocurrency miner that's disguised as an employee CRM application as part of...

Criminal IP: Bringing Real-Time Phishing Detection to Microsoft Outlook
2025-01-09 15:02

AI SPERA announced today that it launched its Criminal IP Malicious Link Detector add-in on the Microsoft Marketplace. Learn more about how this tool provides real-time phishing email detection...