Employees at companies of all sizes can be targets of phishing attacks, but certain corporations or industries can be more valuable to an attacker than others. For instance, employees at telecom companies will often have some level of elevated access that is unavailable to a non-employee. In fact, this access can be so valuable that […]
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Missing DMARC Records Lead to Phishing
Email will continue to be the dominant mode of digital communication for the foreseeable future. However, the email framework was not designed with security in mind. There still are security flaws that bad actors regularly exploit to their advantage. Recently, researchers have discovered a business-email compromise scam in Russia. Known as Cosmic Lync, the cybercriminal […]
Spox Phishing Kit Harvests Chase Bank Credentials
Phishing kits are the back end components to a phishing attack and are often designed to make it easier to deploy a phishing page. These kits are typically bundled in compressed files, such as .zip archives, and contain the entire file infrastructure needed to operate a phishing page. Once a kit is uploaded to a […]
Meet the Victims of Online Scams
Imagine a lonely person who’s looking for romantic companionship, so they turn to the internet. Picture someone who’s terribly anxious for news about an online payment that will ease their paycheck-to-paycheck existence. Or perhaps you’ve known an individual with such limited technical skills and financial resources, they’re always browsing for the cheapest IT provider possible. […]
Steam Phishing Campaign Uses CS:GO Skin Gambling Lure
Attackers regularly target online gaming accounts as they can quickly sell any transferable items along with account logins to a third party. This scenario has cropped up for years now, and has affected a growing number of popular online games ranging from Runescape to Fortnite. These games run on their own clients — so stealing […]
YouTube Account Recovery Phishing
Phishing attacks against targeted channels have been successful in the past, as explained last year on ZDNet. Recently, our Remediation team found an interesting phishing page following a similar pattern that was targeting YouTube creators. Phishing Behavior The phishing campaign, which was initially discovered on a compromised WordPress website, is made up of two pages […]
Phishing Campaign Targets Poste Italiane & SMS OTP Verification
When creating phishing lures, attackers may cite recent major regulatory changes within the context of their social engineering scheme to confuse or further entice victims into clicking a link or performing some action. For example, in September 2019 the EU directive PSD2 went into effect (with some parts delayed until the end of 2020). This […]
Top 10 Hacks & Attacks from 2019
Last year was a busy one in the world of website security. Our 2019 Threat Research Report shows that over 60% of websites we cleaned had a vulnerability at the point of infection, up 4% over 2018. SEO spam remained a universal threat, while backdoors allowed hackers to reinfect sites recovering from an initial attack. […]
Multi-Step Phishing Kit Targeting Credit Union
Phishing attacks can come in all shapes and sizes. Posing a serious threat to industries large and small, phishing campaigns are the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive personal information or login details to gain unauthorized access to accounts to make fraudulent purchases. These malicious attempts to lure victims are often done by masquerading as a […]
Safe Browsing During a Pandemic: How to Spot COVID-19 Phishing Campaigns
Online bad actors tend to take advantage of tragedy for their own gain – and the coronavirus is no different. While we would hope that cybercriminals would be sympathetic during a global health crisis, it already appears this may be a pipe dream. As the virus spread across the world causing shutdowns and quarantines, cybersecurity […]
