phishing
Targeted attacks focus on small businesses
36 percent of all targeted attacks (58 per day) during the last six months were directed at businesses with 250 or fewer employees, according to Symantec. During the first …
Multi-target phishing campaign hits webmail users
An active phishing campaign that is simultaneously targeting Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and Windows Hotmail email users has been spotted by Webroot. The potential victims receive a …
Websense TRITON now with new malware and data theft defenses
Websense announced 10 new malware and data theft defenses, spear phishing protection with cloud sandboxing, and a forensic reporting dashboard with security intelligence. With …
Malicious “Windows Live alert” email targets users
Windows Live account owners are currently being targeted with an email purportedly coming from the Hotmail Security Team, threatening them with an account suspension due to …
Fake “Tax Refund” emails targeting UK citizens
The UK tax season came to an end in April, and notifications about tax returns have begun slowly trickling down to the country’s citizens. But unfortunately among those …
Fake Red Cross emails link to private PayPal account
A rather generic but well-crafted fake American Red Cross email has recently been hitting inboxes around the world and asking recipients for donations: As the offered link can …
Fake “confirm PayPal account” emails lead to phishing
An extremely legitimate looking email supposedly coming from PayPal has been hitting inboxes in the last few days, trying to trick customers of the popular e-payment giant to …
Google warns Gmail users of state-sponsored attacks
Google will start warning users that might be targeted by state-sponsored attackers with clear alerts that pop up above their Gmail inboxes no matter what browser they use …
Olympics fans targeted with lottery scam
An email purportedly coming from the promotion manager of the London 2012 Olympics has been hitting inboxes, trying to scam recipients into sending personal information and …
DNS-changing Trojan leads to phishing banking sites
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. …
Scammers working harder to fool consumers
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 enhances PhishPatrol, the anti-phishing email filter
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 …