phishing
Windows Live ID scam targets personal information
Kaspersky Lab experts are warning of a new scam that uses Windows Live ID as bait to catch personal information stored in user profiles on services like Xbox LIVE, Zune, …
Fake PayPal payment reversal notification leads to phishing
PayPal phishing attempts take many forms, and one of the most often used techniques is fake emails containing a warning and a prompt to act quickly.An active phishing campaign …
Address spoofing Safari bug opens door for phishing attacks
Hacker David Leo has released a PoC exploit for a Safari vulnerability that can be misused to trick users into thinking they are on one site while they are actually on another …
Can you correctly identify phishing emails?
An Intel Security quiz presented ten emails and asked respondents to identify which of the emails were phishing attempts designed to steal personal information and which were …
Man charged with attempted spear-phishing attack on U.S. Department of Energy
An indictment is charging a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with a total of four felony offenses in …
Chrome extension protects your Google account from phishers
Google developers have created Password Alert, an open source Chrome extension that aims to prevent users from entering their Google password in a phishing site or, …
Smarter threats and the rising complexity of cybercrime
85,000 new malicious IPs are launched every day, and the top phishing targets are technology companies and financial institutions, the new Webroot 2015 Threat Brief reveals. …
Pawn Storm cyberspies still at work, target NATO and the White House
Pawn Storm, the long-standing economic and political cyber-espionage operation that has been first detailed in October 2014, continues unabated. Aiming to compromise the …
New trend in cybercriminal activity: APT wars
Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group …
Main sources of data breaches: Phishing, RAM scrapers, web app insecurity
US telecom giant Verizon has published its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is based on an analysis of nearly 80,000 security incidents, including more than 2,100 …
Phishers increasingly target banks and ISP accounts
Phishing against banks and ISPs rose markedly compared to other sectors in the third quarter of 2014, according to the APWG. The number of brands being attacked remains high, …
Russian hackers executed the US State Department, White House network breaches
The October 2014 breaches of some of the computer systems of the US State Department and the White House have been executed by Russian hackers, unnamed US officials familiar …