Want to stay up to date with the latest phishing scams? Our ‘catches of the month’ feature reviews the most prominent attacks across the web, explaining how they occurred and the steps you should take to stay safe. In our first review of 2020, we look at a new twist on a PayPal scam, and discuss data breaches at an IVF treatment facility and in the Singapore...
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One of phishers’ preferred methods for fooling both targets and email filters is to use legitimate services to host phishing pages. The latest example of this involves Office 365 users being directed to phishing and malicious pages hosted on Office Sway, a web application for content creation that’s part of Microsoft Office. The Email The email that tries to trick recipients into visiting the phishing page isn’t...
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Have you ever received emails from unknown sources claiming to offer insurance, lottery tickets or advertisements? You may have noticed that such emails always have a link that they prompt you to click. What lies on the other side of the link can be any one of many ways to phish users into giving away their important login credentials. You obviously don’t want any confidential information...
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Hackers don't typically tell their victims that they've been hacked. Most of the time, when hackers gain entry to computers to do their dirty work, they don't want anyone to know. That way, they can come back another time to see what else they can do or find. Because of that, you might not know if your computer has already been hacked. But there are a...
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What do you do when your CEO emails you with an urgent request? You immediately do what he says, of course. This behaviour, however, is the exact reason why employees in Singapore are falling prey to CEO email scams that put the company’s data and funds at major risk. Among 11 Southeast Asian countries, Singapore recorded the highest number of business email compromise (BEC) scams last year, according...
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