Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...

Is MFA a Security Illusion?

A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Ramnit Man-in-the-Browser Attack Targets UK Banks

Nowhere is the cat-and-mouse game between attackers and the security of users more evident than with social engineering schemes. Users’ awareness of phishing campaigns, for example, may be improving, but that’s just forcing attackers bent on identity theft and stealing payment card information to...

Researchers Find Government Site Hosting Phishing Data

Phishing gangs have been getting bolder of late, and there’s no clearer evidence than the cache of phishing data that researchers at Sunbelt found on a site owned by the Paraguayan government.The researchers discovered that a site belonging to the federal government in Paraguay is currently hosti...