Oil & Gas Targeted in Year-Long Espionage Campaign

A sophisticated campaign targeting large international companies in the oil and gas sector has been underway for more than a year, researchers said, spreading common remote access trojans RATs for cyber-espionage purposes. According to Intezer analysis, spear-phishing emails with malicious...

Ukrainian Police Arrest Author of World's Largest Phishing Service U-Admin

Law enforcement officials in Ukraine, in coordination with authorities from the U.S. and Australia, last week shut down one of the world's largest phishing services that were used to attack financial institutions in 11 countries, causing tens of millions of dollars in losses. The Ukrainian attorn...

Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’

As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution...

Phishing mail offering free version of Windows 8

--- Image Credit : Sophos Microsoft committed itself a Trustworthy Computing program, each new version of Windows has introduced new security features and significantly improved its security posture, whereas phisher took advantage of this new exclusive release. Sophos noticed a mail pretending to...

Report: Phishing Activity is Down (And That's A Bad Thing)

The number of phishing attacks declined in the first half of 2010, but a report from the Anti Phishing Working Group warns that might not be such a good thing. The group released its Global Phishing Survey on Monday covering the first six months of 2010. Overall, the survey reported a steep decli...