phishing

Latin American Internet users are constantly attacked by cyber crooks who aim to get their online banking credentials in order to perpetrate identity theft and banking fraud. …

The number of unique phishing reports submitted to the APWG rose substantially from early fall through the end of the year, while cybercrime gangs were apparently forced to …

Wombat Security Technologies released a new version of PhishPatrol, an e-mail filter designed to strengthen a business’s current filtering system by catching phishing …

The main spam topics that emerged during the last quarter included the increase in spam during the holidays, mass mailings, malicious attachments and the distribution of …

PayPal users are currently being targeted with emails purportedly coming from the e-payment giant and asking for their help: Dear Customer, We need your help resolving an …

Hotmail users are once again targeted by phishers. With “E-mail account alert!” in the Subject line, the fake email ostensibly comes from Microsoft. “This …

Phishing attacks impersonating email service providers increased 333 percent from Q4 2011 to Q1 2012. IID attributes this spike to spammers needing unsullied email addresses …

Unknown attackers are actively targeting natural gas pipeline sector companies in the US with spear phishing emails, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial …

New spam email campaigns are taking advantage of the users’ vague familiarity with the OpenID authentication method to phish their login credentials for a number of …

Symantec researchers warn about a variety of fake emails supposedly coming from popular email and online storage services, offering “storage quota upgrades”. A …

Customers of Santander, one of the largest banking groups in the world, are currently being targeted with a phishing email masquerading as a bogus notification of a scheduled …

A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reveals that in the second half of 2011, China’s Taobao.com became the world’s most …