Security News

Phishing trends: Who is targeted and why (Help Net Security)

2017-02-08 13:00

The business model of phishing has evolved. The bad guys have found ways to multiply their profits at the expense of organizations they aren’t even attacking directly, according to PhishLabs....

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Phishing: Another thing we can blame on Brexit (The Register)

2017-02-07 15:51

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Scammers are blending W-2 phishing with wire fraud (Help Net Security)

2017-02-03 18:55

During last year’s run-up to the US Tax Day, scammers mercilessly targeted companies’ payroll and human resources professionals, tricking them into handing over employees’ W-2 forms. A W-2 form...

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IRS: New Email Phishing Combines W-2 Theft, Wire Fraud (InfoRiskToday)

2017-02-03 17:06

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PayPal Phishing Attack Immediately Verifies Credentials (SecurityWeek)

2017-02-03 13:51

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Egyptian civil society NGOs targeted with sophisticated phishing (Help Net Security)

2017-02-02 22:21

In the last few months, a number of Egyptian civil society organizations, lawyers, journalists, and independent activists have been targeted with personalized and generic emails aimed at revealing...

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91% of phishing attacks are display name spoofs (Help Net Security)

2017-02-01 14:34

GreatHorn analyzed more than 56 million emails from 91,500 corporate mailboxes from March to November 2016. The data found that display name spoofs are the clear phishing weapon of choice for...

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