social engineering

The cross-platform Frutas RAT is being used in a new email phishing campaign targeting high-profile finance, mining, and telecom companies as well as governments in Europe and …

Hijacked social networking accounts can be monetized in a number of ways, so cyber crooks are always thinking up new ways of doing so, preferably without the user noticing. …

Secure Mentem released the Human Incident Response Service to specifically address the issue of exploiting human vulnerabilities. Some of the most noted attacks in recent …

Help desks are most commonly asked to assist users in addressing common IT problems including password resets and application and connectivity issues. Often the performance of …

Pinterest users beware: an email purportedly coming from the popular pinboard-style photo-sharing website and notifying you of a successful password reset is fake: If you …

Blizzard Entertainment has acknowledged that the notification email that has been hitting users’ inboxes and has been purportedly sent by the company is, in fact, a …

Hijacked Facebook Fan Pages are a great asset to online spammers and scammers, so it’s no wonder that at any given time there are a number of active phishing campaigns …

37.3 million users around the world were subjected to phishing attacks in the last year, which is a massive 87 percent increase for the number of targeted user in 2011-2012. …

Yahoo has announced that coming July 15th, any Yahoo email account / Yahoo ID that hasn’t been logged into for over a year will be “freed up” and can be …

Scareware aimed at mobile users is not nearly as ubiquitous as that directed at those who use Windows-run PCs. Nevertheless, there is some out there. Sophos’ Paul …

An interesting and very comprehensive phishing and malware-delivery campaign has been spotted by Webroot researchers. The attackers are posing as the chief of NATO’s …

Trend Micro researchers have discovered a new, massive cyber espionage campaign that has been hitting as many as 71 victims each day, including government ministries, …