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A large-scale campaign involving over 200 phishing and scam sites has tricked users into giving their personal data to fake investments schemes impersonating genuine brands. The fraudulent operation relies upon the abuse of Google Ads and SEO to draw victims to hundreds of fake websites targeting the Indian audience.

Remember when phishing was a funny new term for tricking people into giving up information? Now there are so many variants, spear phishing, clone phishing, and even whaling! Here are five things to know about Consent Phishing.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine warned today of a spearphishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The phishing emails are being sent from two domains, the former trying to impersonate the i.ua free Internet portal providing email services to Ukrainians since 2008.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine warned today of a spearphishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The phishing emails are being sent from two domains, the former trying to impersonate the i.ua free Internet portal providing email services to Ukrainians since 2008.

Krazy Glue of the internet Cloudflare has buffed up its email security with the purchase of anti-phishing firm Area 1. Area 1 Security is all about pre-emptively tracking phishing campaigns and preventing customer mailboxes being troubled thanks to its INBOX.CLEAN product.

An ongoing large-scale phishing campaign is targeting customers of Citibank, requesting recipients to disclose sensitive personal details to lift alleged account holds. The campaign uses emails that feature CitiBank logos, sender addresses that look genuine at first glance, and content that is free of typos.

One of the biggest obstacles to successful phishing attacks is bypassing multi-factor authentication configured on the targeted victim's email accounts. D0x set up a phishing attack using the Evilginx2 attack framework that acts as a reverse proxy to steal credentials and MFA codes.

The Ukrainian cyberpolice have arrested a group of phishing actors who managed to steal payment card data from at least 70,000 people after luring them to fake mobile service top up sites. According to the announcement from law enforcement, the actors used the stolen information to empty their victims' bank accounts.

Over the weekend, hackers stole millions of dollars worth of non-fungible tokens belonging to 17 members of the OpenSea NFT marketplace. On Saturday, a small number of OpenSea users noticed their NFTs were missing.

The non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea is investigating a phishing attack that left 17 of its users without more than 250 NFTs worth around $2 million. Phishing actors are always looking for ways to take advantage of changes that require users to take action and the OpenSea NFT theft is no different.