Flipping the BEC funnel: Phishing in the age of GenAI
For years, phishing was just a numbers game: A malicious actor would slap together an extremely generic (and usually poorly-written) email and fire it out to thousands of recipients in the hope that a few might take the bait. Over time, however, as s.....»»
Vishing cases reach all time high
Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs. In Q1 2022, Agari and PhishLabs detecte.....»»
INKY partners with GoDaddy to enhance email security for businesses
INKY announced its partnership with GoDaddy, the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs. This strategic partnership brings INKY’s anti-phishing and email assistant offering to customers of GoDaddy’s Advanced Email Security (AES) sol.....»»
Dangerous phishing pop-ups appear across major crypto websites
MetaMask wallet users visiting sites such as Etherscan and CoinGecko see suspicious popups......»»
Improving ion transmission efficiency of mass spectrometers
A recent study by researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science and published in Analytical Chemistry presents a novel electrostatic field ion funnel focusing technology called direct current (DC)-ion funnel. It realizes ion focusing with.....»»
Hackers Are Using SEO To Rank Malicious PDFs On Search Engines, Research Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Today, researchers at security service edge provider, Netskope, published the Netskope Cloud and Threat Report: Global Cloud and Malware Trends, which found that phishing downloads rose 450% over.....»»
Keytos EZMonitor prevents breaches and SSL related outages
Keytos launched EZMonitor, a security monitoring system that uses intelligence to help organizations gain full visibility into their X509 certificate health preventing costly SSL related outages, as well as detecting phishing and man in the middle at.....»»
Google lays out its plans to take on next-gen phishing scams
Google will tackle phishing by scaling phishing protections to Docs, Sheets and Slides and auto enrolling users in 2-Step Verification......»»
New Google privacy features fight phishing, scrub search results
Google is taking even more steps to help folks protect their privacy and keep their data secure. .....»»
Google Drive emerges as top app for malware downloads
Netskope published a research which found that phishing downloads saw a sharp increase of 450% over the past 12 months, fueled by attackers using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to improve the ranking of malicious PDF files on popular sea.....»»
Migrant workers are flipping the script and using Photovoice to tell their own stories
What happens when undocumented Bangladeshi and Pakistani men in Greece pick up their cell phones to record their lives as migrant agricultural workers?.....»»
Welcome “Frappo” – Resecurity identified a new Phishing-as-a-Service
The Resecurity HUNTER unit identified a new underground service called “Frappo”, which is available on the Dark Web. “Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which im.....»»
Nothing personal: Training employees to identify a spear phishing attack
Phishing attacks began years ago as simple spam, designed to trick recipients into visiting sites and becoming customers. In the meantime, they have morphed into a worldwide criminal industry. In recent years, threat actors have refined their methods.....»»
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke
You've heard for years that easier, more secure logins are imminent. That day is here. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and.....»»
Another top NFT company has been hit by a phishing attack
Cybercriminals infiltrated OpenSea’s Discord channel to send phishing links and steal users’ NFTs......»»
Another top NFT company has been hit by a phishing attack
Cybercriminals infiltrated OpenSea’s Discord channel to send phishing links and steal users’ NFTs......»»
Google to roll out new Security for Google Docs
Google to beef up security across its services to prevent phishing attacks. The post Google to roll out new Security for Google Docs first appeared on Phandroid. The tech giant is toughening up Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on the web wit.....»»
11:11 Managed Security Services protects customers against malicious activities
11:11 Systems launched Managed Security Services portfolio designed to prevent, detect and respond to malicious activities. The FBI reports a 300% surge in reported cybercrimes and a 400% year-over-year increase in phishing attacks* since COVID-19 an.....»»
Cybercriminals deliver IRS tax scams and phishing campaigns by mimicking government vendors
Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right before the end of the 2021 IRS income tax return deadline in the U.S. April.....»»
Mailchimp parent hit with lawsuit over cybersecurity "negligence"
Having fallen to a phishing scam that drained his crypto funds, the plaintiff launched a lawsuit against Mailchimp......»»
Don"t fall for this devious phishing scam, Facebook users warned
A new campaign scares people into giving away their Facebook account credentials......»»