phishing

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed more phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2016 than at any other time in history. According to a new report, the total …

Pawn Storm, one of the oldest APTs engaging in cyber espionage, has been spotted targeting members of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of …

Netcraft researchers have recently spotted an extremely convincing Facebook phishing attack. The fraudsters made it look like the fake “Facebook Page Verification” …

Cybercriminals are exploiting human nature as they rely on familiar attack patterns such as phishing, and increase their reliance on ransomware, finds the Verizon 2016 Data …

Too many system and network breaches today start with a well-designed, persuasive phishing email, and organizations and businesses would do well to continually train their …

Cybercriminals are adopting corporate best practices and establishing professional businesses in order to increase the efficiency of their attacks against enterprises and …

The latest (likely very successful) ransomware delivery campaign takes the form of spear-phishing emails targeting specific individuals and, for added credibility, includes …

A new type of ransomware does not only encrypt the victims’ files, but also their disk’s Master File Table (MFT), and it replaces the boot drive’s existing …

In February, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning about a 400 percent surge in tax related phishing and malware incidents. The alert said that the most …

A successful email phishing attack aimed at Snaptchat’s payroll department has resulted in the compromise of payroll information about some current and former employees, …

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, PhishLabs exposed the murky evolution of a thriving, sophisticated phishing underworld. Their report is based on more than one million …

97% of malware is unique to a specific endpoint, rendering signature-based security virtually useless. The data collected by Webroot throughout 2015 shows that today’s threats …