Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing system prevented more than 482 million attempts to visit fraudulent web pages during 2018, a two-fold increase on 2017, when 236 million such attempts were blocked. Annual rises in the number of phishing attacks have been observed for the last few years,Read More…
Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET discussed the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group offers a mixed bag of findings about the phishing landscape in 2018Read More…
Trend Micro today released its 2018 Security Roundup Report, which depicts a threat landscape that has evolved heavily through both approach and tactics. One shift in attacks that businesses should be aware of is the rapid growth of cryptocurrency mining, which increased 237 percent in the same time.Read More…
Kaspersky Lab experts have detected a sharp increase in phishing activities from criminals offering users various romantic goods on the eve of St. Valentine’s Day. The total number of user attempts to visit fraudulent websites with a romantic theme that were detected and blockedRead More…
Lukas Stefanko, Malware Researcher at ESET highlights that cybercrooks have used fake finance apps on Google Play to phish six online banks and cryptocurrency exchange worldwide. The writer also shares tips to secure yourself against such crimes. Another set of fake finance apps has found its way into the official GoogleRead More…
On 16 April, Kaspersky Lab researchers reported on a new Android malware distributed through a domain name system (DNS) hijacking technique and targeting mainly smartphones in Asia. Four weeks on, the threat continuesRead More…
In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 percent were attempting to visit a financial-related website – 6 percentage points higher compared to data from 2016. This is the first time since recording phishing attemptsRead More…
Hackers have targeted organisations involved with next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, according to security company McAfee. Organisations involved with the games were sent emailsRead More…
