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Phishers go after unprecedented breadth of targets

Apple is the most phished brand in the world, accounting for 17 percent of all phishing reports sampled and analyzed from the first half of 2014, say the results of the new …

Teen researcher publishes PayPal 2FA bypass exploit

Joshua Rogers, a teenage whitehat based in Australia, has found an extremely simple way to bypass PayPal’s two-factor authentication feature. Rogers first discovered the …

PayPal 2FA flow partially mitigated, accounts are safe

In the wake of the revelation of a flaw that allows attackers to bypass PayPal’s two-factor authentication feature, the e-payment giant has made it temporarily …

Large increase in PayPal-related phishing URLs

CYREN published its April 2014 Internet Threats Trend Report. Among its findings, they revealed a 73 percent increase in the number of phishing attacks aimed at PayPal users. …

PayPal fixes merchant account hijacking bug

Well-known and prolific bug hunter Mark Litchfield has unearthed a pretty big flaw in PayPal Manager, which would allow attackers to hijack a merchants’ account by …

Beware of fake PayPal “Survey Program” offers

PayPal users based in the UK are being targeted with a spoofed PayPal email offering a reward for participating in a “new survey program,” warns Malwarebytes. …

First-rate phishing email claims “Your Paypal transaction was declined”

Extremely well-made fake notifications claiming the recipients’ PayPal transaction was declined are doing rounds and trying to trick users sharing personal and financial …

13 Anonymous hackers plead guilty to PayPal DDoS attack

Thirteen defendants pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose on Friday to charges related to their involvement in the cyber-attack of PayPal’s website as part of the …

Beware of fake PayPal “Account Access Limited” phishing email

Fake PayPal emails claiming recipients will have limited access to their account because they didn’t provide enough information have been landing for the last few days …

Mobile security trends, concerns and misperceptions

PayPal and the National Cyber Security Alliance unveiled the results from a new Zogby Poll highlighting the latest trends, concerns and misperceptions around mobile security …

Phishers increasingly target brands

The APWG is reporting in its latest Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use study that an increasing number of brands and their users have been targeted by …

PayPal unblocks MailPile’s account

MailPile, the open-source web-mail client with user-friendly encryption that has proved to be a hit with the Indiegogo crowd, has been slapped with some bad news: PayPal has …

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