Security News

Detecting and tracking phishing campaigns through web analytics identifiers
2019-11-06 14:07

Cyber crooks are quick to abuse legitimate services for their own malicious purposes. One of the latest instances demonstrating this propensity involves phishing kit developers using web analytics...

Google Analytics Emerges as a Phishing Tool
2019-11-06 14:00

Web analytics help phishers hone their attacks -- but website defenders can also use these tactics to better detect the scope of attacks and mitigate their effects.

Phishing Campaign Uses Salary Increase Ploy: Report
2019-11-05 16:49

Message About a Raise Designed to Harvest CredentialsA new phishing campaign lures employees with a message about a salary increase, according to researchers at the security firm Cofense. The...

Researchers develop machine learning-based detector that stops lateral phishing attacks
2019-11-05 06:00

Lateral phishing attacks – scams targeting users from compromised email accounts within an organization – are becoming an increasing concern in the U.S. Whereas in the past attackers would send...

Europol on Methodology Behind Successful Spear Phishing Attacks
2019-11-04 17:41

"Spear phishing... remains the principal attack vector for most cybercrimes," says Europol in a new report. Sixty-five percent of targeted attack groups use it as their primary infection vector,...

Europol: Spear phishing the most prevalent cyber threat affecting orgs across the EU
2019-11-04 12:08

Spear phishing describes the practice of targeting specific individuals within an organisation or business for the purposes of distributing malware or extracting sensitive information. As...

LogicHub Autonomous Phishing Triage helps speed up response to phishing emails
2019-11-04 04:00

LogicHub, the provider of the industry’s most complete security automation platform, announced the release of LogicHub Autonomous Phishing Triage. Built on the LogicHub SOAR+ platform, LogicHub...

Cybercriminals using custom phishing tools to target the world’s largest tech brands
2019-10-31 05:30

Cybercriminals are using enterprise-based development and deployment strategies, such as phishing as a service (PaaS), to leverage some of the world’s largest tech brands, with 42.63% of domains...

How to protect your business against phishing attacks that exploit major tech brands
2019-10-30 18:00

Users of Microsoft, PayPal, DHL, and Dropbox are among the top targets of phishers, according to a new report from cloud service provider Akamai.

Facebook launches $2m suit against alleged phishing, hacking sites
2019-10-30 11:33

Facebook is using trademark law to target the operators of sites that imitate or target Facebook and Instagram sites.