The evolving landscape of email phishing attacks: how threat actors are reusing and refining established techniques

Introduction Cyberthreats are constantly evolving, and email phishing is no exception. Threat actors keep coming up with new methods to bypass security filters and circumvent user vigilance. At the same time, established – and even long-forgotten – tactics have not gone anywhere; in fact, some ar...

Phishers Exploit Salesforce's Email Services Zero-Day in Targeted Facebook Campaign

A sophisticated Facebook phishing campaign has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Salesforce's email services, allowing threat actors to craft targeted phishing messages using the company's domain and infrastructure. "Those phishing campaigns cleverly evade conventional detection methods...

Attack AI systems in Machine Learning Evasion Competition

Today, we are launching MLSEC.IO, an educational Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC for the AI and security communities to exercise their muscle to attack critical AI systems in a realistic setting. Hosted and sponsored by Microsoft, alongside NVIDIA, CUJO AI, VM-Ray, and MRG...

Attack AI systems in Machine Learning Evasion Competition

Today, we are launching MLSEC.IO, an educational Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC for the AI and security communities to exercise their muscle to attack critical AI systems in a realistic setting. Hosted and sponsored by Microsoft, alongside NVIDIA, CUJO AI, VM-Ray, and MRG...

Catch Me if You Can—JavaScript Obfuscation

While conducting threat research on phishing evasion techniques, Akamai came across threat actors using obfuscation and encryption, making the malicious page harder to detect. The criminals were using JavaScript to pull this off...