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Go Phish: Cybercriminals Stick to Coronavirus and Financial Content to Fuel Phishing Schemes
We’ve reached the half-year mark and online scammers are still taking advantage of the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic. Cyber-attacks targeting both consumers and business surged worldwide, and the trend shows ...
New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN
Bitdefender this week has detected a new phishing campaign targeting iPhone owners with a range of scams aiming to defraud unsuspecting victims. First things first. If you receive the email pictured below, ...
Financial Services Get Hooked, Experience 147% Increase in Phishing Clicks
According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, “The threat of cyber security may very well be the biggest threat to the US financial system.” Coupled with the fact that financial services is ...
New Homograph Phishing Attack Impersonates Bank of Valletta, Leverages Valid TLS Certificate
Bitdefender researchers recently uncovered a new IDN (internationalized domain name) homograph phishing attack in which attackers impersonate the Bank of Valletta, Malta. Bitdefender’s Deep Learning technologies, trained specifically to spot this type ...
Lancaster University Says Phishing Attack Behind Data Breach
Lancaster University has revealed that a successful phishing attack resulted in a data breach involving the data of its students and applicants. On 22 July, the public research university announced on Twitter ...
A Phishing Protection Protocol that Covers 6 Non-Email Attack Vectors
The evolution of phishing attacks over the past couple of years has shown a […] ...
Flaw Reinforces Browser Extensions as Potential Attack Vector
We took notice a couple of weeks ago when it was reported that a […] The post Flaw Reinforces Browser Extensions as Potential Attack Vector appeared first on SlashNext ...
645,000 people warned their personal health data at risk after phishing attack
The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) has started notifying more than 600,000 people that their personal details have been put at risk after staff were tricked into granting hackers access millions ...
Demo of New Automated Phishing Attack That Hacks Two-Factor Authentication
We’ve written several blogs this year about the pros and cons of two-factor authentication […] The post Demo of New Automated Phishing Attack That Hacks Two-Factor Authentication appeared first on SlashNext ...
‘Your account has been locked’ – 7 telltale signs of a phishing scam
According to study after study, phishing remains the most efficient attack vector for bad actors to steal your data. Even though attackers have plenty of options, they prefer phishing because it does ...
