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Why are phishing emails so enduringly popular with the bad guys? A new approach may suggest that curiosity is at play.

Our cyber defenses are becoming stronger and stronger every year. Even the smallest companies can now deploy advanced anti-malware and intrusion detections tools that were, until recently, only...

Bargain basement gTLDs and glyph attacks using IDNs are powering phishing attacks, with fraudulent registrations on the rise. Worse yet, phishing sites are increasingly getting security certificates.

The City of Burlington, Ontario, revealed Thursday that it fell prey to "a complex phishing email" that cost the City CAD $503,000 (around USD $375,000). Few details have yet been released. read more

Why you shouldn't trust a website simply because it's secured using HTTPS and backed by the green padlock symbol.

Malicious actors are abusing users’ trust in the HTTPS protocol to launch phishing campaigns, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns in a recent alert. read more

Some 140,000 more domains are using DMARC records since the start of 2019, though DMARC-based enforcement remains complex to implement.

The vulnerable kits also offer a point of entry to compromise legitimate website servers.

Absolutely criminal behavior – unrestricted file upload, really? Exclusive Phishing kits – used by miscreants to build webpages that steal victims' personal information and money by masquerading...

Researchers revealed a massive hole in Google Safe Browsing's mobile browser protection that existed for over a year.