A report in the Wall Street Journal on October 26th described incidences of election officials within the U.S. at the local level being sent suspicious emails which appear to be purposefully targeting them due to their position within their states.
n Sunday August 30th, 2020 CenturyLink suffered a major outage which affected numerous internet companies including Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft via Xbox Live, EA, Blizzard, Steam, Discord, Reddit, Hulu, NameCheap, OpenDNS, and many others including PhishingBox.
The developers behind the Google Chrome browser have announced in a blog post that they will begin testing a new way to help defend against the increasing threat of phishing attacks.
In a new report from the combined efforts of Arizona State University, PayPal, Google, and Samsung, researchers found that at least 7.42% of victims who visit phishing pages input their credentials resulting in compromised accounts and experience fraudulent transactions as a result.
In an effort to inform and defend customers, LastPass warned that there had been reports of a Phishing email that was being sent to users using the LastPass platform.
A new post by the Microsoft security team warns about a new type of phishing attack vector targeting users. Consent Phishing, as they refer to it as, targets users by asking for an egregious amount of permissions from Single-Sign-On allowing the bad actors to abuse the accounts they have been granted access to.
Instagram users should be on the lookout for fake copyright notices that have emerged as a new way to try and phish people into handing over the credentials of their accounts. As reported by
As reported by Checkpoint Research, European users of Office 365 have been targeted with phishing emails sent from seemingly legitimate sources after bad actors hijacked Samsung's
As is common with real phishing campaigns, bad actors are using current events to take advantage of people and trick them into opening malicious emails.
