The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the U.S. FBI have released an advisory warning of Iranian state-sponsored spear-phishing attacks targeting “individuals with a nexus to Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs, such as current or former senior government officials,…
Netcraft warns that scammers are posting QR code stickers on parking meters in the UK and other European countries. In the UK, the QR codes lead to phishing sites that impersonate the parking payment app PayByPhone. The phishing sites are…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing most, if not all, industries worldwide. AI systems use complex algorithms and large datasets to analyze information, make predictions and adjust to new scenarios through machine learning – enabling them to improve over time without…
Researchers at ReliaQuest have published a report looking at cyber threats surrounding the upcoming US presidential election, warning that election-related phishing will continue to increase over the next month. People working in the political sphere need to be wary of…
A phishing campaign is targeting GitHub users with phony CAPTCHA pages, according to researchers at McAfee. The phishing emails ask users to address a security vulnerability in a GitHub repository that they recently contributed to, and contain a link to…
New analysis of attacks on the financial sector shows that the combination of phishing emails and compromised credentials is a recurring — and financially impactful — threat. According to IBM, financial services is the second most expensive sector with an…
