A sophisticated multistage phishing campaign dubbed ‘Heatstroke’ has been identified by security researchers, where scammers apparently steal PayPal and Credit Card information. It was called Heatstroke after a variable found inside the phishing kit’s malicious code.Read More…
As much as 50% of all unique organizations impacted by observed phishing domains are from the financial services sector, according to data from Akamai’s 2019 State of the Internet / Security Financial Services Attack Economy Report.Read More…
Nearly 80% of websites have no DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) policy in place, increasing the odds that their domain will be spoofed and used for phishing attacks on customers, a report titled Global DMARC Adoption 2019 by 250ok, an Indianapolis-based email intelligence platform, released today, said. DMARC isRead More…
Researchers have spotted a variant of the Dridex banking trojan with stronger capabilities that help it skirt anti-virus detection. While Dridex has been around since 2011, researchers have said that they recently spotted phishing emails distributing a never-before-seen variant of the malware. This variant uses file signatures that are difficultRead More…
Mrugesh Chandarana, Senior Product Manager, Identity and Access Management Solutions at HID Global discusses the rising trend of Business Email Compromise (BEC) and shares his views to combat this growing menace.Read More…
Mimecast, a leading email and data security company, today announced the availability of its latest quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA), an aggregated report of tests that measure the efficacy of widely used email security systems. The report shows the need for the entire industry to continue to work towardRead More…
Avengers fans, beware! Scammers are are promising full movie downloads of the Marvel Blockbuster, in a new kind of phishing attack.Read More…
GoDaddy and security firm Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have taken down 15,000 subdomains dedicated to selling fake pharmaceutical products. Their two-year investigation led to them to some major cyber spam attacks on which these companies thrive. To begin with, they discovered that affiliate spammers had compromised the accounts ofRead More…
