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Scammers are blending W-2 phishing with wire fraud

During last year’s run-up to the US Tax Day, scammers mercilessly targeted companies’ payroll and human resources professionals, tricking them into handing over …

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Egyptian civil society NGOs targeted with sophisticated phishing

In the last few months, a number of Egyptian civil society organizations, lawyers, journalists, and independent activists have been targeted with personalized and generic …

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91% of phishing attacks are display name spoofs

GreatHorn analyzed more than 56 million emails from 91,500 corporate mailboxes from March to November 2016. The data found that display name spoofs are the clear phishing …

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Phishers’ new social engineering trick: PDF attachments with malicious links

It is – or it should be – a well known fact that attackers occasionally email potential victims with PDF attachments containing malware or exploit code. But the …

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Researchers predict upsurge of Android banking malware

Android users, beware: source code and instructions for creating a potent Android banking Trojan have been leaked on a hacker forum, and researchers are expecting an onslaught …

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New Gmail phishing technique fools even tech-savvy users

An effective new phishing attack is hitting Gmail users and tricking many into inputing their credentials into a fake login page. How the attack unfolds The phishers start by …

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Brother and sister arrested for spying on Italian politicians for years

Two Italian siblings have been arrested on Monday and stand accused of having spied on Italian politicians, state institutions and law enforcement agencies, businesses and …

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Record wave of phishing comes to an ebb in autumn 2016

The Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that the year’s record wave of phishing subsided in the autumn. According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the total …

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Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime

Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …

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Risky sites have never been easier to exploit

46% of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky. This is largely due to vulnerable software running on web servers and on underlying ad …

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Corporate Office 365 users hit with clever phishing attack

Corporate Office 365 users are being targeted by phishers using a clever new trick to bypass email filters and the default security protections of the Microsoft service. The …

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12 tips for implementing secure business practices

Optiv Security shared a list of a dozen tips for implementing secure business practices during the 2016 holiday season. Security experts developed these recommendations to …

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