Security News

New Actor DarkHydrus Targets Middle East with Open-Source Phishing
2018-08-09 15:28

DarkHydrus uses the open-source Phishery tool to create two of the known Word documents used in the attacks.

Detecting Phishing Sites with Machine Learning
2018-08-09 11:17

Really interesting article: A trained eye (or even a not-so-trained one) can discern when something phishy is going on with a domain or subdomain name. There are search tools, such as Censys.io,...

The Art of the Steal: FIN7's Highly Effective Phishing
2018-08-07 18:18

Cybercrime Gang Phoned Victims to Increase Phishing Attack Success RatesThe FIN7 cybercrime gang regularly phoned victims, posing as buyers, to trick victims into opening phishing emails and...

Phishing Campaign Steals Money From Industrial Companies
2018-08-02 16:46

Phishing emails purported to be commercial offers - but were really installing remote administration software on victims’ systems.

Phishing Campaign Targets 400 Industrial Organizations
2018-08-02 15:13

A new wave of spear-phishing emails masquerading as legitimate procurement and accounting letters have hit over 400 industrial organizations, according to Kaspersky Lab. read more

The Year Targeted Phishing Went Mainstream
2018-08-02 15:11

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site...

Google pledges to foil phishing attacks with new Titan Security Key
2018-07-27 12:20

If you trust Google, this is the second-factor security key for you.

Hey you smart, well-paid devs. Stop clicking on those phishing links and bringing in malware muck on your shoes
2018-07-25 19:02

At Node Summit, coders served some humble pie Software developers have been lionized in recent years for their influence over the information economy. At the Node Summit in San Francisco,...

Google hasn’t suffered an employee phishing compromise in over a year
2018-07-24 11:07

Phishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware tokens in early 2017. That’s the remarkable claim made...

Nation-State Spear Phishing Attacks Remain Alive and Well
2018-07-23 13:48

Russians Tied to Hack Attacks, But 'Two-Factor' No Silver Bullet, Google WarnsSpear phishing attacks are in the news again following the Justice Department's indictment of Russian military...