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Cobalt cybercrooks phry up phishing campaign to phling at phinance orgs
2018-08-31 09:42

Emails hiding dodgy scripts designed to plant backdoors A notorious hacking group suspected in attacks across dozens of countries has launched a campaign against banks in eastern Europe and Russia.…

If you have to simulate a phishing attack on your org, at least try to get something useful from it
2018-08-29 09:22

Step 1: let the higher-ups know Just when it looked as if the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) had finally got one over on the phishing hackers that had been owning it since 2016, the...

False Alarm: Phishing Attack Against DNC Was Just a Test
2018-08-24 11:03

Unannounced Exercise Stoked Voter Database Hacking FearsA website that appeared to be part of a phishing campaign designed to gain access to the Democratic National Committee's voter database has...

DNC: Highly Publicized ‘Phishing Attempt’ Was Only a Security Test
2018-08-23 13:39

DNC officials and Lookout believed a spoofed site was built to harvest authentication details for the Democratic voter database.

Attack on DNC Part of Simulated Phishing Test
2018-08-23 12:29

A recent phishing attack aimed at the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was actually part of a simulation, researchers and representatives of the Democratic Party confirmed. read more

Week in review: Office 365 phishing, compromising networks with malicious faxes
2018-08-20 00:30

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: AT&T sued for enabling SIM swap fraud A cryptocurrency investor is suing AT&T because criminals were able to empty his...

Phishing Attack Last Year Exposed Health Data on 417,000
2018-08-17 20:18

Why Did It Take 10 Months to Determine a PHI Breach Occurred?Augusta University Health in Georgia says it just recently concluded that a phishing attack that occurred - and was detected - 10...

Widespread Phishing Campaign Targets Financial Institutions
2018-08-17 18:48

A phishing attack on Wednesday fueled by the Necurs botnet targeted at least 2,700 banking institutions of various sizes in the U.S. and around the world, explains Aaron Higbee of Cofense, which...

Why phishing remains a critical cyber-attack vector
2018-08-15 18:39

Spear phishing emails targeting business users are so well-crafted they should be called "laser" phishing attacks, says Microsoft's Cybersecurity Field CTO Diana Kelley.

Office 365 Phishing Campaign Hides Malicious URLs in SharePoint Files
2018-08-15 16:06

Researchers say the "PhishPoint" tactic has already impacted 10 percent of Office 365 users globally.