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Operation Pawn Storm: Varied targets and attack vectors, next-level spear-phishing tactics

In a recently released whitepaper, Trend Micro researchers have shared many details about a long-standing economic and political cyber-espionage operation they dubbed Pawn …

Beware of Ebola-themed phishing, malware campaigns and hoaxes

US-CERT released an advisory warning users about email scams and cyber campaigns using the Ebola virus disease as a theme. “Phishing emails may contain links that direct …

Infographic: How to spot a phish

Since many cyber attacks originate with a phishing email, the best way for organizations and individuals to protect themselves online is to identify and avoid phishing emails. …

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 …

Malicious eBay listings redirect users to phishing site

An IT worker from Scotland who is also an “eBay PowerSeller” has discovered an eBay listing for an iPhone that was rigged to redirect potential buyers to a spoofed …

Phishers resort to AES crypto to obfuscate phishing sites

Phishers have started employing AES encryption to disguise the real nature of phishing sites from automatic phishing detection tools. This is the latest obfuscating trick in …

80% of business users are unable to detect phishing scams

McAfee Labs revealed that phishing continues to be an effective tactic for infiltrating enterprise networks. Testing business users’ ability to detect online scams, the …

iCloud wasn’t hacked, says Apple

Apple has released a statement denying that iCloud was hacked to steal nude photos of celebrities. “When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately …

Cybercriminals love PayPal, financial phishing on the rise

Kaspersky Lab’s experts reported a substantial increase in the amount of financial phishing in spam. There was a 7.9 percentage points increase in the amount of scam …

70% of IT pros experience weekly phishing attacks

69 percent of IT professionals experience phishing attacks at least once a week, with customer data cited most often as the type of data attacked, followed by financial …

Phishers targeting crypto currency and retail sites

Online payment services and crypto-currency sites are being targeted by phishers. The number of phishing attacks remained high, and the second quarter of 2014 saw the …

Bitcoin-themed phishing campaign creates quite a stir

The latest massive email phishing campaign targeting Bitcoin users has had an unexpected click-through rate. The spam campaign came in two waves, and of the 12,000 messages …

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