Security News

Week in review: iOS phishing, and three reasons to secure your data now
2017-10-16 01:50

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Inventive cyber gang steals millions from East European banks Trustwave researchers have uncovered a series of...

Apple’s intermittent password prompts prime iOS users for phishing
2017-10-11 17:22

By asking iOS users to enter their AppleID password intermittently and with no regard of environment, Apple has laid the groundwork for phishers to go after the sought-after login credentials....

Watch Out! Difficult-to-Detect Phishing Attack Can Steal Your Apple ID Password
2017-10-10 10:03

Can you detect which one of the above screens—asking an iPhone user for iCloud password—is original and which is fake? Well, you would agree that both screenshots are almost identical, but the...

Ongoing Email Exchanges Hijacked in Spear-Phishing Attacks
2017-10-06 12:29

Malicious actors have injected themselves into ongoing email exchanges in highly targeted spear-phishing attacks aimed at entities across the world, Palo Alto Networks said on Thursday. read more

Activists targeted with barrage of creative phishing attempts
2017-09-29 13:00

More often than not, the human element is the weakest link in the security chain. This fact is heavily exploited by cyber attackers, and makes phishing and spear-phishing attempts the most likely...

Sophisticated Phishing Attacks Target Internet Freedom Activists
2017-09-29 10:36

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) revealed on Wednesday that employees of Internet freedom NGOs “Free Press” and “Fight for the Future” have been targeted in sophisticated spear-phishing...

Civil Liberties Activists Hit By Phishing Campaign
2017-09-28 18:40

Digital civil liberty activists with Fight for the Future and Free Press were hit with a phishing emails designed to steal business credentials earlier this summer.

1.4 Million Phishing Sites Are Created Monthly: Report
2017-09-22 13:54

According to a new report, an average of 1.385 million unique new phishing sites are created every month, peaking at 2.3 million in May 2017. The majority of these are online and active for an...

46,000 new phishing sites are created every day
2017-09-22 13:23

An average of 1.385 million new, unique phishing sites are created each month, with a high of 2.3 million sites created in May. The data collected by Webroot shows today’s phishing attacks are...

Equifax directed consumers to fake phishing site for weeks
2017-09-21 18:05

You can now add another blunder to the already long list of Equifax’s missteps in the wake of the massive breach it announced earlier this month: the company has been pointing affected customers...