Tag Archives: phishing

Phishing-as-a-service has come of age with what's being billed as the most pervasive worldwide package scam operation to date. "Darcula" has created 19,000 phishing domains in cybe... More

Tricking individuals to reveal sensitive information or grant access to systems doesn’t require technical expertise. These lures turn human behavior and trust into a weapon.... More

Phishing campaigns use fake social media profiles, in-depth research, and more to trick unsuspecting victims into clicking malicious links.... More

Researchers have uncovered a large-scale phishing operation that abused Facebook and Messenger to lure millions of users to phishing pages, tricking them into entering their accoun... More

Threat actors maintained their relentless attacks on enterprise end users for yet another year, new study shows.... More

In the past year, almost three-quarters (73 percent) of businesses suffered a data breach as a result of a successful phishing campaign. The trend can be partly attributed to remot... More

Organizations that don’t educate their employees on the dangers of phishing are putting themselves at risk, a report from security training platform KnowBe4 claims.The company re... More

Based on the huge number of phishing attacks seen over the past year, it is more important than ever to detect, educate and defeat these attacks on an organization’s employees an... More

Phishing emails that dupe users into sending cyber criminals wire transfers is by far the most lucrative form of cybercrime - here's what you need to know.... More

Phishing attacks have grown increasingly more sophisticated over the years. Usually targeting us on emails, sometimes via text messages, they attempt to lure users into providing s... More

The number of phishing attacks and other email-based cyber-criminal campaigns continues to rise, with most organisations having witnessed an increase over the past year – but des... More

Phishing is one of those attack vectors that keep evolving and multiplying. Because it’s been around for so long, many security and privacy professionals underestimate how effect... More

Akamai just released the 2019 State of the Internet security report: Phishing - Baiting the Hook featuring findings from the enterprise and carrier research teams. They've been col... More

Cybercriminals are developing custom tools to target tech brands and victimize their users, using enterprise-based deployment strategies, including phishing as a service (PaaS), ac... More

Phishing has proven to be one of the more difficult security problems to solve, and new research from Google shows that it’s not just because humans are gullible. It turns out th... More

Despite the wide-ranging effects of the Facebook data privacy scandal, only one-fifth of people are concerned over privacy issues related to social media use, according to a new st... More

Phishing has evolved from a scatter-gun approach as a generic email sent to millions of people with the expectation of a low percentage of hits to a targeted campaign designed to e... More

Phishing scams are more advanced and widespread than ever, and threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to craft malicious websites that look legitima... More

There has never been a time when more cybersecurity caution has been required when traversing the online world, with the volume of messages carrying malicious phishing payloads spi... More

Workers are seeing a wave of phishing attacks that send victims a link to a fake invoice that appears to come from a trusted party, according to a new threat spotlight report from ... More