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The total number of phishing sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group worldwide in October through December 2019 was 162,155, following the all-time-high of 266,387 attacks recorded in July through September 2019. APWG contributor OpSec Security saw attacks against more than 325 different brands per month in Q4. Stefanie Wood Ellis, Anti-Fraud Product & Marketing Manager at OpSec Security, noted that the most frequent targets of phishing attacks continued to be Webmail, payment, and bank sites, but that "Phishing against Social Media targets grew every quarter of the year, doubling over the course of 2019.".
Sectigo, the world’s largest commercial Certificate Authority (CA) and a provider of purpose-built and automated PKI management solutions, announced the availability of Sectigo Subscription SSL....
We should be able to trust public key certificates, but this is the real world: mistakes and “mistakes” happen. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington have analyzed 379 reported instances...
Pulse Secure and Fortinet Released Critical Fixes Months Ago, But Patching LagsA hacking group known as APT5 - believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government - has been targeting serious...
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Cybersecurity in the age of the remote workforce Users can be set up for a productive experience while...
Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information...
The issue impacts users of the vendor's Cloud WAF product.
Vendors Issued Security Updates to Fix Severe Flaws Several Months AgoPatch or perish redux: Hackers are unleashing automated attacks to find and exploit known flaws in SSL VPNs manufactured by...
Attackers are taking advantage of recently released vulnerability details and PoC exploit code to extract private keys and user passwords from vulnerable Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN and Fortigate...
In 2018, phishing attacks were attempted 482.5 million times, more than doubling the number of incidents in 2017. New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics...