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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...

New Dridex Phishing Campaign Delivers Fake Accounting Invoices (Threatpost)
2017-09-07 19:24

A new variant of the banking trojan Dridex is part of a sophisticated phishing attack targeting users of the cloud-based accounting firm Xero.

Researchers Devise Hopeful Defense Against Credential Spear Phishing Attacks (Security Week)
2017-09-05 12:07

Security Researchers Have Proposed a New and Effective Way to Detect Credential Spearphishing Attacks in the Enterprise read more

Locky Returns via Spam and Dropbox-Themed Phishing Attacks (InfoRiskToday)
2017-09-01 13:18

Massive Ransomware Campaign Flings 23 Million Emails in Just 24 HoursA massive Locky ransomware campaign has been infecting devices via malware-laced spam messages as well as through fake Dropbox...

Facebook Awards $100,000 Prize for Spear-Phishing Detection Method (Security Week)
2017-08-18 09:45

Facebook announced on Thursday the winners of its 2017 Internet Defense Prize. A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...

Researchers Find Phishing Site Encrypted with AES (Threatpost)
2017-08-14 15:20

A phishing site seeking Apple credentials and victim payment card information is encrypted with AES, researchers at Ring 0 Labs said.