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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…

Threat actors are abusing virtual shopping lists to trick Walmart customers into transferring money or disclosing personal information, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Links to the lists are distributed via Google Ads that impersonate Walmart support.  As a result, someone…

Analysis of typosquatting and brand impersonation activity across 500 of the most visited domains provides insight in to how these techniques come together to effectively deceive. From February 2024 to July 2024, Zscaler’s ThreatLabz tracked more than 30,000 lookalike domains that…

Researchers at Barracuda have observed an increase in phishing attacks that abuse popular content creation and collaboration platforms. These include online graphic design platforms and document-sharing services widely used by educational institutions and businesses. “The analysts found that attackers are…