Threat hunters say they’ve seen a concerted rise in the use of a phishing tactic designed to bypass traditional email defenses by subtly changing the prefixes (a.k.a. schemes) of malicious URLs in hyperlinks. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Threat hunters say they’ve seen a concerted rise in the use of a phishing tactic
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GoDaddy scam shows how voice phishing can be more deceptive than email schemes
A GoDaddy office location in Sunnyvale, California (GoDaddy Inc.). Companies can protect employees from phishing schemes through a combination of training, secure email gateways and filtering technologies. But what protects workers from phone-based voice phishing (vishing) scams, like the kind that recently targeted GoDaddy and a group of cryptocurrency platforms that
Microsoft secretly seized domains used in COVID-19-themed email cyberattacks
A court has granted a bid by Microsoft to seize and take control of malicious web domains used in a large-scale cyberattack targeting victims in 62 countries with spoofed emails in an effort to defraud unsuspecting businesses. The technology giant announced the takedown of the business email compromise operation in
States’ lack of DMARC adoption ups risk of Covid-19 email spoofing scams
As phishing scammers actively impersonate institutions like the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control in order to capitalize on Covid-19 fears, government bodies and state-run health care organizations continue to make themselves vulnerable to email spoofing scams that leverage their names by failing to employ DMARC email validation
Amazon fires employees for leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers
Amazon has fired a number of employees after they shared customer email address and phone numbers with a third-party “in violation of our policies.” The email to customers sent Friday afternoon, seen by TechCrunch, said an employee was “terminated” for sharing the data, and that the company is supporting
Breach of email accounts impacts 50,000 patients of Minnesota hospital
Minnesota-based hospital operator Alomere Health this month began notifying patients of a data breach affecting 49,351 individuals, after a malicious actor gained access to two employee email accounts in late October and early November. The first incident took place between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2019, while the second account hijacking
Only a few 2020 US presidential candidates are using a basic email security feature
Just one-third of the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates are using an email security feature that could prevent a similar attack that hobbled the Democrats during the 2016 election. Out of the 21 presidential candidates in the race according to Reuters, only seven Democrats are using and enforcing DMARC, an email security
TriNet sent remote workers an email that some thought was a phishing attack
It was the one of the best phishing emails we’ve seen… that wasn’t. Phishing remains one of the most popular attack choices for scammers. Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information, typically usernames and passwords, so that scammers can log into
Gates: Stone discussed WikiLeaks DNC email dump with Trump
A day before House impeachment hearings drew President Trump’s Ukraine policies into the spotlight, prosecutors in the Roger Stone trial ended their case with testimony from former Trump Deputy Campaign Manager and convicted felon Rick Gates, who said that Stone served as a liaison between WikiLeaks and the campaign regarding hacked DNC emails, with
Shopify expands into email marketing
Shopify continues to expand beyond its core e-commerce platform with a new product called Shopify Email. Shopify’s chief product officer Craig Miller and director of product for marketing technology Michael Perry gave me a quick demo of the product yesterday; Miller argued that they’ve created “the first email product designed