More than 40 million UK consumers are thought to have been targeted by digital fraudsters so far in 2022, a double-digit increase from the same time last year. Charity Citizens Advice commissioned a poll of over 2000 UK adults back…
Attackers are taking advantage of the current news about monkeypox to trick people into clicking on malicious links, Pickr reports. Researchers at Mimecast have spotted a phishing campaign that impersonates companies in an attempt to trick employees into visiting phony…
Researchers at PIXM have uncovered a major Facebook Messenger phishing scam that’s “potentially impacted hundreds of millions of Facebook users.” More than eight million people have visited just one of these phishing pages so far this year. “While viewing the…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its partners have issued a joint alert on Karakurt, a data theft extortion group that harasses victims’ employees, customers, and business partners in order to pressure the victim to pay up.…
Researchers at KELA warn that ransomware gangs are increasingly refraining from mentioning their victims’ names after the initial attack, giving the victims a chance to pay up before the attack is publicized. This puts an additional layer of pressure on…
Reaching more than 1 million attacks in a single quarter for the first time, new data on phishing attacks in Q1 of 2022 show an emphasis on impersonation and credential theft. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) collects data from a…
