Collaborate Disseminate
Browser fingerprinting is one of many tactics phishing site authors use to evade security checks and lengthen the lifespan of malicious campaigns. While browser fingerprinting has been used by legitimate organizations to uniquely identify web browsers … Continue reading Cybercriminal adoption of browser fingerprinting
PhishLabs by HelpSystems has identified attackers leveraging a weakness in Google’s ad service to carry out phishing campaigns on financial institutions. In this Help Net Security video, Kevin Cryan, Director of Operational Intelligence at PhishLabs, t… Continue reading How phishing campaigns abuse Google Ad click tracking redirects
Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41 percent of all email-based scams targeting employees, during Q2 of this year. This is according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends &#… Continue reading Response-based attacks make up 41% of all email-based scams
The APWG’s Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that in the first quarter of 2022 there were 1,025,968 total phishing attacks—the worst quarter for phishing observed to date. This quarter was the first time the three-month total has exceeded o… Continue reading Phishing reaches all-time high in early 2022
Vishing (voice phishing) involves defrauding people over the phone. Vishing cases have increased almost 550 percent during 2021, and vishing attacks have overtaken business email compromise (BEC) as the second most reported response-based email threat … Continue reading Vishing attacks: What they are and how organizations can protect themselves
Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs. In Q1 2022, Agari and PhishLabs dete… Continue reading Vishing cases reach all time high
Social media as a threat channel saw a two-fold increase in attacks throughout 2021, according to a report from PhishLabs. In Q4 and throughout 2021, PhishLabs analysed hundreds of thousands of phishing and social media attacks targeting enterprises, t… Continue reading Social media attacks surged in 2021, financial institutions targeted the most
Phishing remains the dominant attack vector for bad actors, growing 31.5 percent over 2020, according to a PhishLabs report. Notably, attacks in September 2021 were more than twice as high as the previous year. “While we saw a drop early this sum… Continue reading Phishing attacks grow 31.5% over 2020, social media attacks continue to climb
Overall, the first half of 2021 shows a 22 percent increase in the volume of phishing attacks over the same time period last year, PhishLabs reveals. Notably, however, phishing volume in June dipped dramatically for the first time in six months, immedi… Continue reading Phishing attacks increase in H1 2021, sharp jump in crypto attacks
The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021, after landmark increases of 2020 in which reported phishing websites doubled. The number of reported phishing website… Continue reading Phishing maintained near-record levels in the first quarter of 2021