Security News

How dodgy browser plugins, web scripts can silently rewrite that URL you were about to hit – and throw you into an internet wormhole
2019-08-15 07:08

Clickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total Analysis Clickjacking, which came to the attention of security types more than a decade ago, continues to thrive, despite...

iOS URL Scheme Could Let App-in-the-Middle Attackers Hijack Your Accounts
2019-07-15 17:49

Security researchers have illustrated a new app-in-the-middle attack that could allow a malicious app installed on your iOS device to steal sensitive information from other apps by exploiting...

Google launches new Chrome protection from bad URLs
2019-06-20 14:47

The "Suspicious Site Reporter" extension lets users easily report dubious sites, while a new warning flags potential typosquatting pages.

Unpatched Flaw in Xiaomi's Built-in Browser App Lets Hackers Spoof URLs
2019-04-05 10:48

EXCLUSIVE — Beware, if you are using a Xiaomi's Mi or Redmi smartphone, you should immediately stop using its built-in MI browser or the Mint browser available on Google Play Store for non-Xiaomi...

RSAC 2019: Malicious Emailed URLs See Triple-Digit Increase
2019-03-05 11:00

At least 463,546 malicious URLs contained in the 28.4 million analyzed emails made it through to corporate in-boxes in Q4 of 2018.

40% of malicious URLs were found on good domains
2019-03-01 06:15

While tried-and-true attack methods are still going strong, new threats emerge daily, and new vectors are being tested by cybercriminals, according to the 2019 Webroot Threat Report. 40 percent of...

Phishers’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters
2019-02-20 11:51

Phishers have come up with another trick to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many e-mail security services: they delete the links from the document’s relationship...

What’s behind this 1,000-character phishing URL?
2019-02-14 13:09

Bleeping Computer learned of a strange phishing campaign which uses an unusually long URL - but why?

Malicious URLs outnumbered attachments in emails 3 to 1 last year
2019-02-07 17:08

The end of 2018 saw a spike in malicious attachments which businesses need to be wary of, according to a Proofpoint report.

Chrome’s hidden lookalike detection feature battles URL imposters
2019-02-04 12:41

Chrome now checks for misspellings of popular URLs and will display a link to the site that it thinks the user might have wanted to visit.