Tag: Phishing
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Elderly scam victims are too embarrassed to speak up
“Christine” was a pensioner in her 70s with a terminally ill husband when she got an email out of the blue: she could receive £500,000 …
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Iranian Attackers Spoof Security Site for Phishing Lure
An Iranian APT group has been spotted building a phishing site, using a cybersecurity company which outed it as a lure. Charming Kitten has …
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DNC pushes employees, campaigns to embrace email security habits ahead of midterms
Staffers at the Democratic National Committee are getting better at spotting phishing emails, a skill that became a top priority after …
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June’s Cybersecurity Recap: The Evolving Cybersecurity Career Pathway
In June’s cybersecurity news, the cyberskills gap is growing and social engineering schemes like phishing attacks remain a top threat …
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Typeform data breach hits thousands of survey accounts
Survey company Typeform has admitted suffering a breach caused by attackers downloading a “partial backup” of its customer data. The …
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A week in security (June 25 – July 1)
Last week on Labs, we looked at comment moderation duties, Viagra spam on a news-making restaurant’s website, and how to manage your …
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Social SafeGuard scores $11M to sell alerts for brand-damaging fakes
Social SafeGuard, a 2014-founded U.S. startup which sells security services to enterprises aimed at mitigating a range of digital risks …
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Phishing scam claims to deliver WannaCry, demands bitcoin ransom
A new phishing campaign falsely claims to infect PCs with WannaCry ransomware and then demands users pay a bitcoin ransom in order to …
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Hundreds Report WannaCry Phishing Campaign
Action Fraud is warning of a new phishing campaign using the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack of May 2017 as a lure. The UK’s national …
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Agari gets $40 million investment to protect organizations from phishing, spoofing
Agari, a company that uses artificial intelligence to protect organizations from email threats, announced Friday that it earned $40 million …
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