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New wave of phishing: Attackers use Adobe InDesign
New wave of phishing: Attackers use Adobe InDesign

There is currently an increase in phishing attacks that abuse Adobe InDesign, a well-known and trusted document publishing system. According to Barracuda Telemetry, the number of emails containing Adobe InDesign links has increased nearly 30x since October. While the daily number was previously around 75 per email per day, it has now increased to around 2.000. Almost one in 10 (9 percent) of these emails contain active phishing links. Many of these links have the top-level domain “.ru” and are hosted behind a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that acts as a proxy for the source site. This…

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Companies: Protection against fake accounts
Protection against fake accounts

Fake accounts massively damage the reputation of companies. Last year there were over 500 million hits on fake social media pages. Companies should definitely take an insight into their digital footprint. The latest version of Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence gives companies even stronger protection against reputation-damaging, fake accounts on social networks as well as fake apps in the AppStore and GooglePlay. Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence is part of the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence portfolio. Cybercriminals imitate well-known companies Kaspersky experts identified over half a billion attempts to access fake websites last year. Therefor…

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Phishing: Microsoft and Google most commonly impersonated
Phishing: Microsoft and Google most commonly impersonated

The Brand Phishing Report shows which brands are most commonly impersonated to steal personal or payment information. Microsoft, Google and Apple are currently the top three most imitated brands. In Q2023 2023, global technology company Microsoft climbed the Brand Phishing Report rankings, moving up from third place in Q29 XNUMX to first place. The tech giant accounted for XNUMX percent of all phishing attempts. This could be partly due to a phishing campaign, where hackers sent deceptive messages to account holders about…

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