Tag: phishing scams
The Importance of Team Diversity in Detecting Phishing Scams
An email subject line catches a user’s interest. The user clicks through and gets compromised. This is a classic phishing attack; it remains one...
Multiple Indian Banks Encounter Phishing Attacks
Sensitive financial information is always a lucrative target for cybercriminals. Threat actors often use advanced techniques in their phishing campaigns to harvest victims’ banking...
Here’s Why You Are More Likely to Be Targeted with a...
Threat actors constantly innovate and adopt new techniques to perform their phishing activities successfully. They often leverage compromised email IDs, login credentials, and other...
IRS Alerts U.S. Taxpayers About e-File Identity Theft via Phishing Attacks
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had previously issued several warnings regarding scammers using the IRS name and/or logo to dupe people into giving access...
Social Engineering: Life Blood of Data Exploitation (Phishing)
What do Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and Frank Abigail all have in common, aside from the obvious fact that they...
Real or Imposter? Everything You Need to Know About “Homoglyph” Phishing
Security experts from Malwarebytes discovered cybercriminals using a combination fake domains with favicons to launch “Homoglyph Attacks.” The attackers used Homoglyph attack — also...
Hackers Favored Google and Amazon for Brand Phishing Attacks in Q2...
Google and Amazon were the top used brands in phishing attacks (13%) during Q2 2020, according to Check Point’s Brand Phishing Report. The report...
54% of Universities in the U.K. Suffered a Data Breach Last...
A survey on the state of cybersecurity in the higher education sector, conducted by managed threat detection provider Redscan, revealed that nearly 54% of...
Phishing is the Top Digital Fraud Globally: Report
A new research from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion revealed that phishing is the top digital fraud across the globe related to the COVID-19...
Australia Lost Over $630 Mn to Phishing Scams: Report
A recent survey from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that Australians lost over $634 million to scams in 2019, which is...
