IT Sec News updates – Phishing Attacks

August 11, 2023
NEWS

Cybercriminals Increasingly Using EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Executives

Threat actors are utilizing the 'EvilProxy' Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) toolkit to carry out account takeovers.

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Email Phishing Tempts 33% of Employees to Click on Suspicious Links: KnowBe4 Report

Simulated phishing platform, KnowBe4, reveals the results of its email phishing report and reveals how fraudsters are updating their approach.

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Interpol Busts Phishing-as-a-Service Platform '16Shop,' Leading to 3 Arrests

16Shop specialized in the sales of phishing kits that other cybercriminals can purchase to mount phishing attacks on a large scale, ultimately …

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Closer look at how criminals are phishing college students – WWLP

Phishing attacks are targeting students this back-to-school season. One tactic that these cyber criminals are using to get students' personal …

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EvilProxy Campaign Fires Out 120,000 Phishing Emails – Infosecurity Magazine

Researchers have warned of a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) phishing campaign targeting thousands of users, including a large share of …

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Researchers put LLMs to the test in phishing email experiment | TechTarget

At Black Hat USA 2023, a security researcher discussed the results of an experiment that used large language models, or LLMs, to produce phishing …

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Takeovers of MFA-protected accounts increase, as Microsoft 365 phishing campaign shows

The new phishing campaign targets business executives and uses EvilProxy to defeat multifactor authentication. Person holding phone near a laptop …

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Closer look at how criminals are phishing college students – YouTube

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – As college students prepare to go back to school, cybercriminals are working to steal their money.

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Microsoft 365 accounts of execs, managers hijacked through EvilProxy – Help Net Security

A phishing campaign leveraging EvilProxy has targeted Microsoft 365 user accounts of executives and managers at over 100 organizations.

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Hundreds of executives are falling for Microsoft 365 phishing attacks: Report

Threat actors are having recent success defeating multifactor authentication-protected Microsoft 365 cloud accounts using the EvilProxy phishing …

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