Amazon phishing attacks pick up for holiday shopping season
Hackers are gearing up for the big holiday shipping season with a new collection of email that are just too good not to click on.
Maria Korolov | 12 Nov | Read more
Hackers are gearing up for the big holiday shipping season with a new collection of email that are just too good not to click on.
Maria Korolov | 12 Nov | Read more
Hackers have stolen user contact information, including email addresses and phone numbers, from the website of the European Central Bank and attempted to extort money from the institution.
Lucian Constantin | 24 Jul | Read more
You may have heard that the NSA has been spying on just about everyone, everywhere without regard for whether or not they are an actual threat to national security. The allegation that RSA accepted a payment of $10 million in exchange for cooperating with the NSA led some to boycott the recent RSA Conference, or participate in the TrustyCon counter-conference that was hosted around the corner. As it turns out, though, most IT professionals don't seem all that concerned with the activities of the NSA.
Tony Bradley | 06 Mar | Read more
AppRiver, an email and web security solutions provider, has released its Global Threatscape Report for the month of September, documenting the amount of spam traffic caught by the company's email filters in August of this year. While the report does provide information about specific malware threats -- like the fact that X.UPX.App.pakuberc was the most common malware threat in August based on frequency of appearance in email traffic -- it also offered valuable information about the fluctuation of spam frequency and its countries of origin.
Grant Hatchimonji | 07 Oct | Read more
Distributed Spam Distraction attacks may last up to 24 hours, and inundate an inbox with as many as 60,000 messages, AppRiver report notes
John P. Mello | 03 Jul | Read more
Attention! Dear Depositor -- the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) is not sending you an e-mail with a mysterious ZIP file attachment. If you receive such a message claiming to be from the FDIC, don't be fooled. The e-mail is a phishing attack, and the attachment is actually malware.
Tony Bradley | 19 Feb | Read more