The FBI is warning that an Iranian-linked cyber operation called "Enemies of the People" continues to threaten federal and state officials as well U.S. civilians via emails and text messages.
A Russian-speaking "scam-as-a-service" operation dubbed "Classiscam" is expanding globally, with 40 interconnected gangs in about a dozen countries using fake product advertisements to launch phishing schemes, the security firm Group-IB reports.
The "remote workforce" of 2020 is gone. Now we're talking about the new, permanent "branch office" - and it comes with its own unique set of cybersecurity concerns, says Derek Manky of FortiGuard Labs. He discusses new social engineering trends and how to respond.
The Australian Cyber Security Center is warning that fraudsters have recently started sending phishing emails that spoof the agency and contain malware designed to steal banking credentials.
A recently uncovered phishing campaign is spoofing messages from the New York State Department of Labor, claiming to offer $600 as part of a COVID-19 relief program, according to Abnormal Security. The goal is to harvest personally identifiable information.
Federal investigators have seized two domains impersonating the pharmaceutical firms Moderna, which has begun shipping a COVID-19 vaccine, and Regeneron, which developed a treatment for COVID-19, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Fraudsters were using the websites for identity theft.
Fraud in the interactive voice response channel was growing before the pandemic. Since? IVR fraud has become “a fraudsters’ playground,” says Mark Horne, CMO of Pindrop. He shares a new account-centric defensive solution.
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A spear-phishing campaign in which emails appear to originate with legitimate companies is targeting enterprise users to steal Office 365 credentials, according to Abnormal Security.
Email is still the #1 attack vector the bad guys use. A whopping 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email, but email hacking is much more than phishing and launching malware!
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An ongoing phishing campaign designed to harvest Office 365 credentials is using a Microsoft Outlook migration message, according to researchers at Abnormal Security. These fake messages have landed in about 80,000 inboxes so far.
Russia-linked hackers used phishing emails with COVID-19 themes as a way to infect devices with a backdoor called Zebrocy, the security firm Intezer reports.
An ongoing spear-phishing campaign is spoofing the official Microsoft.com domain name and targeting users of the company's Office 365 suite, according to security firm Ironscales. Fraudsters are likely using these attacks to harvest credentials.
Are insurers getting cold feet over covering losses to ransomware? With claims due to ransomware skyrocketing, some insurers have reportedly been revising offerings to make it tougher for companies to claim for some types of cybercrime, including extortion.
Detecting "deepfake" images used by fraudsters is challenging, says Gartner Research analyst Avivah Litan, who describes key steps in the detection effort.
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