Phishing Attacks

Compared to the classical phishing and social engineering attacks, the term watering hole attack is seldom given any attention by cybersecurity websites. It is a coverage something we need to amend, as contrary to the popular notion that such a campaign is very rare. It is a common occurrence but received less coverage than more

Maybe some of you have forgotten when then Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates uttered one of the silliest claims to promote Microsoft in 2004. In the prestigious 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: “Two years from now, spam will be solved.” He made such brave claim in relation to the

Fake invoices are easier to detect if these piggyback emails that came from people you don’t know. We are well aware of the messages from complete strangers may range from complete irrelevant to dangerous as it harbors malware, placing the victim into cybersecurity trouble. Even phishers and cybercriminals know that basic principle of safe computing,

Global cloud-based email management firm Mimecast, in their State of Email Security report, revealed that their study revealed that UAE’s cyber impersonation cases are up by 75%, which caused financial loss for the victims. The report is a result of the aggregate information coming from more than a thousand IT leaders from multinational companies, with

Security conscious users are still wary of using mobile banking apps, for the very reason they cannot clearly determine if the bank app connects their online banking account to the bank’s servers in an encrypted fashion. The usual verification of a TLS connection is by checking the address bar of the web browser, it provides

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) disclosed in a report dated May 2019 that 378,000 cases of scams, mostly from the online environment were reported to the commission for the whole of 2018. Australians collectively lost AU$489 million, 41.7% more than 2017. ACCC runs Scamwatch, which separately collected 177,516 reports, that number is so

Development Bank of Singapore and the Singapore Police have issued a warning to the public that a specifically crafted phishing SMS message are spreading, providing users a link that will steal their username and passwords for their DBS online account. Sample messages below: DBS instructed their customers never fall for such scams, especially those messages

In today’s world, everyone needs to understand the dangers of phishing attacks. Every single individual who uses the internet in one way or the other needs to know how to ensure protection against phishing attacks. What is Phishing? Almost every one of us is targeted by phishing attacks regularly. Phishing attacks comprise sending fraudulent communication,

The Better Business Bureau has warned banks, especially Bank of America and their depositors/creditors to be alert of a new phishing attack using a newer social engineering technique. Some victims of the new phishing attack suddenly realized that their bank accounts were totally wiped-out of funds, even without remembering if she gave her banking information

Fraud transaction through clever social engineering enabled Chinese phishers in successfully swindling an estimated $18.6 million from Tecnimont SpA’s Indian branch. With a cleverly written email that heavily resembles Pierrorberto Folgiero’s (the company’s Group CEO) was sent to Tecnimont Pvt Ltd, the phishers were able to persuade decision makers in the company’s India office to