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Quishing: Phishing campaign uses QR codes

20 November 2021

A new phishing campaign, Quishing, uses QR codes to trick victims into clicking on a compromised link. Access data for the Microsoft 365 cloud applications are to be stolen. Phishing is one of the greatest threats to IT security, as is well known by now. Most companies have taken steps to at least contain the tide of ongoing campaigns. As a result, the attackers also have to keep upgrading and come up with new tricks. The cybersecurity researchers from Abnormal Security are now reporting on a new phishing campaign. Cyber criminals try to ...

How Cyber Scammers Use Google Forms

15 October 2021

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| Sophos, Stories

SophosLabs Reveals: How Cyber Scammers Use Google Forms. Phishing and malware often pave the way for ransomware or data theft. The latest analysis by SophosLabs shows how the fraudsters use Google Forms for their own purposes. Sophos has published a new analysis report entitled “Phishing and Malware Actors Abuse Google Forms for Credentials, Data Exfiltration” that deals with the misuse of Google Forms by cyber criminals. Google Forms makes it easy for cybercriminals “The extent to which attackers are using Google Forms for themselves came to light when we examined how malware abuses the encryption, ...

Global Threat Report: 2,9 billion emails in quarantine

11 October 2021

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Zix publishes its Mid-Year 2021 Global Threat Report on global threats. E-mail threats are on the rise: 2,9 billion e-mails were quarantined by Zix in the first half of the year alone. Zix Corporation, the leading provider of cloud solutions for email security, productivity and compliance, publishes its Mid-Year 2021 Global Threat Report on Global Threats. Twice a year, the researchers from Zix present their assessments of the current threat and security situation, combined with an overview of current developments in attack techniques and tips for companies on prevention. Cyber crime is growing rapidly “Cyber crime will continue to grow rapidly in 2021. The probably ...

70 percent more phishing attacks

September 19, 2021

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Pandemic proportions: Worldwide 70 percent more phishing attacks in the home office according to the Sophos Phishing Insights Report 2021. During the pandemic, work often had to be rushed home - this was shamelessly exploited by cyber criminals: the Sophos Phishing Insights Report 2021 proves that global phishing -Attacks on businesses have increased by 70 percent. In Germany the rate is 68 percent, in Austria 88 percent and in Switzerland 87 percent. Sophos publishes its latest Phishing Insights 2021 report, which focuses on the experiences and processes behind phishing attacks on organizations during ...

Spam ranking: WhatsApp and package info are increasing

August 31, 2021

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Cyber criminals use WhatsApp and information about parcel deliveries to spread spam and phishing emails. There was a slight increase in spam emails in the second quarter of 2021. This is confirmed by a spam analysis by Kaspersky for Q2 / 2021. Since last year, cyber criminals have been taking advantage of delivery delays and outages to trick users into opening malicious email attachments and links. This trend continued in the second quarter of this year, but online scammers continued to develop their methods and became more adept and precise at sending spam emails with greater local relevance. They also made more use of current discussions ...

Blocked more than a million phishing websites

August 28, 2021

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Cyber criminals are still using the Covid-19 topic for themselves, as a current Kaspersky analysis of anonymous data shows. From March 2020 to July 2021, the cybersecurity company's products blocked over a million attempts to visit pandemic-related phishing websites worldwide. A total of 300 websites in Europe have been blocked in the study period since the beginning of the pandemic. Most of the attempts came from Germany: a third of the blocked websites were tried to be accessed from here. Most hits from Germany The most common methods used by cyber criminals to seduce users into disclosing data include fake payment offers and discounted COVID-19 tests. Since…

Overtired IT teams lose the battle against phishing

August 20, 2021

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New Ivanti study: Overtired IT teams and poorly prepared employees are losing the battle against phishing. Almost three quarters of businesses were phishing attacks last year. One reason: More than half suffered from a shortage of IT specialists. Ivanti, the automation platform that detects, manages, secures and maintains IT resources from the cloud to the edge, has presented the results of a recent survey on phishing attacks. The central message of the study: The global shift of work to remote locations has significantly increased the number of attacks, their sophistication and the effects of phishing attacks….

The enemy in your own inbox

August 13, 2021

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Attacking email accounts will continue to be one of the most popular methods used by cyber criminals to gain access to sensitive company information. Barracuda best practices for addressing a lack of integration between incident response and web security. Although classics such as compromised email attachments or links still serve their purpose, attackers do not necessarily want to rely on them: social engineering or the use of stolen credentials for planned data theft are far more difficult tactics. And so, inefficient responses to email attacks cost companies billions of dollars each year. Because for many companies, finding, identifying and removing email threats is a ...

Cyber criminals phish for data via messenger apps

August 4, 2021

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Due to their popularity, messenger apps such as WhatsApp continue to be a popular tool for phishing scammers, according to a recent analysis by Kaspersky. According to this, 2020 malicious links in connection with messengers were blocked worldwide between December 2021 and May 94.559. That corresponds to more than 500 incidents per day. 89,6 percent of this was on WhatsApp, 5,6 percent on Telegram, 4,7 percent on Viper and less than 0,1 percent on Hangouts. In Germany, 96 percent of phishing attempts took place via WhatsApp. Dangerous links via WhatsApp Messenger apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram are popular and will ...

Spam & Phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany

19 May 2021

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Spam and phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany. The Kaspersky Report shows: Covid-19 topic is still popular as bait among cyber criminals around the world. In the past year, COVID-19-related spam emails and phishing sites have become one of the most profitable fraud opportunities for cyber criminals due to the publicity and explosiveness of the topic. Fraudsters continue to exploit this issue, especially in Germany. In the first quarter of this year, around 15 percent of spam attacks worldwide came from Germany, which was the second highest figure in the world last year. At the same time, the opening rate of malicious emails in Germany was ...

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How Cyber Scammers Use Google Forms

Global Threat Report: 2,9 billion emails in quarantine

70 percent more phishing attacks

Spam ranking: WhatsApp and package info are increasing

Blocked more than a million phishing websites

Overtired IT teams lose the battle against phishing

The enemy in your own inbox

Cyber criminals phish for data via messenger apps

Spam & Phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany

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