Security News

789% year-over-year spike in malware and phishing (Help Net Security)
2016-06-07 12:30

An analysis of phishing email campaigns from the first three months of 2016 has seen a 6.3 million increase in raw numbers, due primarily to a ransomware upsurge against the last quarter of 2015....

Amazon Users Targets of Massive Locky Spear-Phishing Campaign (Threatpost)
2016-05-26 16:05

Researchers tracked a Locky ransomware and spam attack that spoofed an Amazon shipping email that included an estimated 100 million sent missives.

Phishing attacks rise to highest level since 2004 (Help Net Security)
2016-05-26 13:00

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed more phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2016 than at any other time in history. According to a new report, the total number of unique phishing...