Security News

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method (Threatpost)
2017-08-21 18:28

Researchers who identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings won $100,000 from Facebook last week.

Facebook Awards $100,000 Prize for Spear-Phishing Detection Method (Security Week)
2017-08-18 09:45

Facebook announced on Thursday the winners of its 2017 Internet Defense Prize. A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...

Barracuda Launches AI-based Spear Phishing Detection (Security Week)
2017-06-29 06:31

Barracuda Networks this week announced its new Sentinel product: an artificial intelligence (AI) powered spear-phishing and business email compromise (BEC) realtime detection and prevention...

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...

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...

Spear-Phishing Attacks Increasingly Focused: Report (Security Week)
2017-05-31 14:15

Spear-phishing attacks have become increasingly “laser-focused,” with many campaigns aimed at only a small number of inboxes belonging to the targeted organization, according to a report published...

Clever spear-phishing emails hit employees involved in SEC filings (Help Net Security)
2017-03-08 21:18

FireEye has flagged a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign hitting US-based businesses with emails purportedly coming from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The emails look like...

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.