Security News

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.

Phishing attacks target mobile browsers with dash-padded URLs (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-15 13:49

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

Curiosity Kills Security When it Comes to Phishing (Threatpost)
2017-06-06 19:20

The results of an academic experiment reveal that recipients of Facebook messages are much more likely to click on suspicious links.

Spear Phishing Attacks (Schneier on Security)
2017-06-06 11:11

Really interesting research: "Unpacking Spear Phishing Susceptibility," by Zinaida Benenson, Freya Gassmann, and Robert Landwirth. Abstract: We report the results of a field experiment where we...

New Gmail anti-phishing features rely on machine learning (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 14:00

Google has announced several new security features and improvement of existing ones in order to protect Gmail users against phishing emails. New features The new features are intended for users of...

Stanford University Site Hosted Phishing Pages for Months (Security Week)
2017-06-02 13:47

Hackers compromised the website of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University to deploy phishing sites, hacking tools, and defacement pages since January, Netcraft...