Google yesterday announced that its latest Chrome release adds real-time phishing alerts and password breach warning capabilities to the browser. The real-time anti-phishing capabilities represents an upgrade to Google’s Safe Browsing service, which compiles an ever-changing blacklist of dangerous websites that browsers can check against. Typically, when a Chrome user visits a website, the browser…
Cybercriminals are reportedly attempting to trick users of the Steam video game digital distribution service into visiting a phishing site that pretends to give away new game skins, but actually steals login credentials. Researcher “nullcookies” first reported the fraudulent giveaway promotion in a Twitter post late last month. BleepingComputer followed up on the post and…
Attackers have been actively exploiting an Android vulnerability that allows malicious apps to display dangerous permission requests and phishing overlays under the guise of a legitimate app. Dubbed StrandHogg (an old Norse Viking term), the flaw resides in Android’s taskAffinity control setting, and can be successfully abused without having to first gain root access, according…
It’s one thing for employees to receive a phishing email that is purposefully crafted or spoofed to look like a genuine online communication. But when happens when people receive an actual, legitimate email that accidentally looks like a phishing scam? According to a report from TechCrunch, this exact scenario took place last week when cloud-based…
Since October, a threat actor has been impersonating governmental agencies in phishing emails designed to infect American, German and Italian organizations with various forms of malware, including the Cobalt Strike backdoor, Maze ransomware and the IcedID banking trojan. Business and IT services, manufacturing companies, and healthcare organizations make up a large share of the targets…
That WebEx meeting invite you just received may actually be a phishing email that spreads the WarZone remote access trojan by abusing a Cisco open redirect. An open redirect is an app or website vulnerability — caused by improper authentication of URLs — that allows attackers to introduce their own URLs that route users or…
Cofense has come across a particularly seductive phishing scam that uses the lure of a wage increase to entice workers to spill their Microsoft Office 365 credentials. The spoofed email differs little from other varieties used in phishing attacks, except this one purportedly comes from a corporate human resources department regarding a company-wide pay hike…
Home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond yesterday disclosed in a Securities & Exchange Commission 8-K filing that an unauthorized third party illegally accessed one percent of its online customers’ accounts. The online intruder acquired the account emails and passwords from a “source outside the company’s systems,” the Union Township, N.J. retailer reported. Based on…
The United Nations and other non-government organizations have been undergoing spear phishing attacks since at least March of this year with the goal of obtaining staffers’ login credentials. The attackers are using compromised Office 365 credentials garnered through phishing attacks to enter the NGOs’ systems, enabling them to install phishing websites that mimic each organization’s…
Cybercriminals have devised a phishing campaign that that takes aim at customers of the online payment processing company Stripe, with the intention to steal their credentials, compromise their accounts and presumably view their payment card data. The attackers employ two clever tricks to hide their malicious activity. First, they use a technique to block email…
