Security News

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...

Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
2018-07-23 11:34

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place...

Google: Security Keys Neutered Employee Phishing
2018-07-23 11:34

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place...

DanaBot Trojan Targets Bank Customers In Phishing Scam
2018-07-16 16:13

A new phishing scam purports to be MYOB invoices - but really contains a novel banking trojan.

A Successful Strategy for Fighting Phishing
2018-07-11 21:03

Brent Maher of Johnson Financial Group Offers Real-World Lessons LearnedThe key to lowering the risk of employees becoming victims of phishing is to adopt an "adult learning" approach to training,...

95% of companies want humans and tech to work together to fight phishing
2018-07-10 14:54

More than half of companies are plagued with phishing emails on a regular basis, and awareness training often isn't enough, according to an IronScales report.