APWG Q3 Report: Four Out of Five Criminals Prefer HTTPS

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 ...
Global Phishing Campaign Sets Sights on COVID-19 Cold Chain

Global Phishing Campaign Sets Sights on COVID-19 Cold Chain

A global phishing campaign targeted organizations associated with the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) cold chain. Discovered by IBM Security X-Force, the operation began in September 2020 by targeting multiple entities that support the ...
Cyber Security Roundup for December 2020

Cyber Security Roundup for December 2020

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, November 2020.Manchester United FC remains impacted by a seemly major ...
Holiday Shopping Scams and Tips to Stay Safe

Holiday Shopping Scams and Tips to Stay Safe

In our November monthly episode we discuss the scams that you may encounter this holiday shopping season due to the pandemic and our top tips on how to stay safe and more ...
Back-to-Work Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporate Email Accounts

Back-to-Work Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporate Email Accounts

A phishing campaign used what appeared to be back-to-work notifications in order to compromise recipients’ corporate email accounts. Near the end of November, Abnormal Security detected one of the campaign’s attack emails ...
Employee Cybersecurity: Prevent Holiday Shopping from Compromising Your Network

Employee Cybersecurity: Prevent Holiday Shopping from Compromising Your Network

Employees are continuing to work from home as more and more cases of the pandemic come to light. This increase in cases means that working from home is going to continue for ...
Employee Cybersecurity: Prevent Holiday Shopping from Compromising Your Network

Employee Cybersecurity: Prevent Holiday Shopping from Compromising Your Network

Employees are continuing to work from home as more and more cases of the pandemic come to light. This increase in cases means that working from home is going to continue for ...
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, ...
Phishers Using Redirector Sites with Custom Subdomains for Evasion

Phishers Using Redirector Sites with Custom Subdomains for Evasion

Malicious actors launched a phishing attack that’s using redirector websites with custom subdomains in order to evade detection. On November 16, Microsoft Security Intelligence tweeted out that it had spotted the phishing ...
spear-phishing

Targeted Spear-Phishing on the Rise

The pandemic has presented many challenges for cybersecurity, especially COVID-19-related phishing attempts targeting employees working from home. However, security experts speaking at the Exabeam Spotlight20 virtual conference warned of an increase in ...
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