Security News

Senator Calls For Use Of DMARC To Curb Phishing (Threatpost)
2017-07-19 19:46

Senator Ron Wyden is pushing to mandate government-wide use of the email authentication protocol DMARC “to ensure that hackers cannot send emails that impersonate federal agencies.”

Enterprises face 3,680 potential phishing emails each week (Help Net Security)
2017-07-13 14:52

GreatHorn analyzed more than 3.5 terabytes of data – over 373 million corporate emails – to gain insights into the sheer volume of email threats facing enterprises and the role of automated tools...

Men stole bitcoin by phishing individuals on the dark web (Help Net Security)
2017-07-10 15:10

Michael Richo, a 35-year-old from Connecticut, had the brilliant idea of stealing bitcoin from people involved in illegal deals through dark web marketplaces. Perhaps he thought that he would be...

Barracuda Launches AI-based Spear Phishing Detection (Security Week)
2017-06-29 06:31

Barracuda Networks this week announced its new Sentinel product: an artificial intelligence (AI) powered spear-phishing and business email compromise (BEC) realtime detection and prevention...

Making HTTPS phishing sites easier to spot (Help Net Security)
2017-06-28 18:31

For years, we taught users that a website’s URL that includes https at its very beginning is a relatively good indicator of whether they can safely input sensitive information into it. Most users...

Criminalization of DNS for phishing continues to advance (Help Net Security)
2017-06-28 13:00

Cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, by registering more and more domain names, rather using web servers and domains they have hacked into. These “malicious domain...

Phishing: The Speed of Attack (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-26 13:18

Midway through 2017, phishing attacks are very much on the rise, namely because they are too easy to launch and far too lucrative for the attackers, says Brooke Satti Charles of IBM Security Trusteer.

GreatHorn Secures $6.3 Million Combat Spear-Phishing Attacks (Security Week)
2017-06-23 17:39

Belmont, Mass-based start-up GreatHorn announced Wednesday completion of a $6.3 million Series A funding round led by Techstars Venture Capital Fund and .406 Ventures.  read more

Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Palestinian Law Enforcement (Security Week)
2017-06-21 00:36

Palestinian law enforcement agencies and other targets within Palestine were targeted in a spear phishing campaign delivering malware to remotely control infected systems, Talos researchers...

Login-stealing phishing sites conceal their evil with lots of hyphens in URL (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-15 13:49

Compromised domains target Android users with fake login pages for cloud services.