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Successful Phishers Make Slim Gains in 2020
2021-02-24 19:25:47| TechNewsWorld
Catastrophic events, like a pandemic, coupled with hasty technological change such as many people forced to work from home immediately, have been a rich environment in the past for phishers, who use deception to infect machines with malware, steal credentials, and invade corporate networks. However, malicious actors achieved only a marginal increase in success in 2020, according to a recent report.
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Phishers Bait Hooks for Netflix, Amex Users
2019-03-22 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Cybersecurity experts at Microsoft's Windows Defender Security Intelligence Team this week reported their discovery of two new email-based phishing campaigns. One targets Amex users while the other targets Netflix customers. Both campaigns reportedly are very well-crafted, featuring legitimate logos and even fill-in forms that closely mimic those on the respective company's own websites.
Phishers Find Apple Most-Tasty Target
2014-10-07 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
"Follow the money" isn't just the war cry of journalistic bloodhounds hot on the trail of political corruption. It's the mantra of Web predators, too. That's why PayPal consistently has been the top brand targeted by phishers -- although that appears to have changed. Apple now has the dubious distinction of most-phished brand, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Work Group.
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Phishers Cast Longlines to Hook More Victims
2013-03-11 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Phishing and spear phishing have long been thought to be mutually exclusive hacking tricks, but cybercrooks have found a way to combine the two in a technique called longline phishing. "The technique allows you to hit a lot of people very quickly and largely go undetected," said Dave Jevans, founder and CTO of Marble Security.
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