IT Sec News updates – Phishing Attacks

May 28, 2024
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Report: The Dark Side of Phishing Protection – The Hacker News

The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks.

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New Tricks in the Phishing Playbook: Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, GenAI

The attack method, called transparent phishing or adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing, “uses Cloudflare Workers to act as a reverse proxy server …

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How scammers trick message board users | Securelist

As in scam 1.0, the attackers send a phishing link to the duped seller via a third-party messenger or directly on the message board. The linked page …

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How Criminals Are Leveraging AI to Create Convincing Scams | Tripwire

phishing scams. Cybercriminals create far more sophisticated scams with generative AI than traditional phishing scams. According to Visa research …

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KnowBe4 report uncovers HR and IT emails as top phishing targets – Businessamlive

A recent report from KnowBe4 has revealed that HR and IT-related email subjects are the top baits in phishing attacks,making up 42 percent and 30 …

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Beware the dangers of data breach fatigue – UNSW Sydney

phishing sites designed to get the additional credentials they need to get into bank accounts and steal money.” Phishing for personal information.

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Vishing meets AI: The changing nature of phishing threats | The Star

There's been a profound shift in how phishing attacks are executed. Earlier forms of phishing focused primarily on email, but nowadays threat …

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Data breach at medical giant Cencora exposes info from multiple drug companies

Identity theft and phishing … The affected companies are Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Bayer Corporation, AbbVie, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, …

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Victim who lost $7M in Ethereum re-staking exploit gets funds back – TradingView

“Yesterday, the old phishing group Inferno Drainer used the permit offline authorization signature to phishing away nearly US$7 million in ETH re- …

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Two banks in Hong Kong warn against phishing emails – MSN

Tai Sang Bank cautioned against emails claiming to be from its chairman. Two banks in Hong Kong have separately warned of phishing emails between …

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