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APWG Q3 Report: Four Out of Five Criminals Prefer HTTPS
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), known for its collaborative analysis of phishing attacks and identify theft techniques, has released its Phishing Activity Trends Report for Q3 of 2020. Highlights from the report ...
Major Nigerian Phishing and BEC Actors, SSGToolz and CeeCeeBossTMT, Arrested by Nigerian Police and Interpol
An Interpol headline on November 25, 2020 announces "Three arrested as INTERPOL, Group-IB and the Nigeria Police Force disrupt prolific cybercrime group" however the article does not name the suspects. The Interpol ...
$2.3M Stolen from Wisconsin GOP via BEC Attack
With Election Day just around the corner, the Republican Party of Wisconsin revealed that $2.3M was recently stolen from election funds intended to support the re-election of President Trump. According to ...
APWG: SSL Certificates No Longer Indication of Safe Browsing
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its Phishing Activity Trends Report analyzing phishing attacks and identifying theft techniques reported by its members for Q2 of 2020. Key highlights of the report ...
SEGs Haven’t Stopping Phishing, So Email Isolation is Next, Hold On
Users of a Secure Email Gateway (SEG) are protected from most phishing, yet emails with malicious URLs still get through. To address the issue, SEG vendors have added isolation technologies to their ...
Gift Cards Requested in Two-Thirds of BEC Attacks, Report Reveals
A report revealed that scammers requested funds in the form of gift cards in two-thirds of business email compromise (BEC) attacks. For a phishing trends report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), ...
Targeted Attacks Part 1 – OSINT and Reconnaissance
In our August monthly episode we start our three part series on targeted attacks. In this episode we focus on OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and reconnaissance techniques used by attackers in phishing ...
Top 3 Reasons Gaps in Microsoft and Proofpoint Email Security Are Leaving Organizations Vulnerable
Email Account Takeover (ATO) attacks occur when a threat actor gains unauthorized access to an email account belonging to someone else. Cybercriminals obtain stolen user credentials through trade or purchase on the ...
UK National Cyber Security Centre Warns Sports Organizations of Ransomware and BEC attacks
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a warning about the growing risks of sports organizations becoming valuable targets for ransomware attacks, phishing campaigns and Business Email Compromise (BEC). “We are ...
Returning to the Workplace and the Ongoing Threat of Phishing Attacks
Guest post by Richard Hahn, Consulting Manager, Sungard Availability Services According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), approximately 14.2 million people (44% of the total number of working adults) have worked ...
