phishing news

Over the past couple of months, the volume of phishing attacks using distorted URL prefixes has increased by 5933%. Security researchers at GreatHorn have discovered a new phishing campaign in which criminals bypass traditional URL protection. While many phishing scams involve changing the...

Check Point Research reports that in November, the number of phishing emails written on behalf of delivery services increased by 440% compared to October. The sharpest growth was recorded in Europe, with North America and the Asia-Pacific region taking the second and third places in the number...

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com, a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. Until recently, I couldn’t quite work out what Privnotes was up to, but today it became...