Security News

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...

Don't Fall For This Sophisticated New PayPal Phishing Scam (Forbes)
2017-02-01 13:50

We need to talk about Granny: She's way more likely to fall for phishing (The Register)
2017-02-01 07:35

PayPal Users Targeted in Sophisticated Phishing Attack (SecurityWeek)
2017-01-31 20:50

W-2 Phishing Scams: Mitigating the Risks (InfoRiskToday)
2017-01-30 21:20

New Gmail phishing technique fools even tech-savvy users (Help Net Security)
2017-01-16 15:20

An effective new phishing attack is hitting Gmail users and tricking many into inputing their Gmail credentials into a fake login page. How the attack unfolds The phishers start by compromising a...

Netflix Phishing Campaign Targeted User Information, Credit Card Data (Threatpost)
2017-01-10 18:27

Researchers recently identified a phishing campaign set up to lure unsuspecting Netflix users into giving up their credentials and credit card data.

Experts Warn of Novel PDF-Based Phishing Scam (Threatpost)
2017-01-05 22:05

Security experts are warning of an active phishing campaign that utilizes PDF attachments in a novel ploy to harvest email credentials from victims.

Record wave of phishing comes to an ebb in autumn 2016 (Help Net Security)
2017-01-02 13:15

The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that the year’s record wave of phishing subsided in the autumn. According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the total number of phishing...

Corporate Office 365 users hit with clever phishing attack (Help Net Security)
2016-12-14 15:01

Corporate Office 365 users are being targeted by phishers using a clever new trick to bypass email filters and the default security protections of the Microsoft service. The attack comes in the...