Phishing Archive
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost upon us. Let the shopping begin! However, the flurry of purchases and the data that they represent means cybercriminals will also be looking to cash in. What are the risks? As well as genuine …
According to the Trump administration, Healthcare.gov, the portal for the Affordable Care Act, has been hacked, compromising 75,000 consumer files. This represents only a small number of the nearly 12 million people enrolled in Obamacare but try telling that to …
A phishing scam cost Texas’ Henderson Independent School District (HISD) more than $600,000. On September 26, 2018, the HISD sent an electronic payment to pay for construction work. However, the payment never went to the construction company. The school district …
Mimecast’s Email Security Risk Assessment report has revealed that BEC (business email compromise) attacks have increased by 80% in the past quarter. BEC scams target organizations to try to compromise the email account of a victim and get personal data, …
The personal information of 417,000 patients at Augusta University Health was compromised after 24 employees fell victim to a phishing attack in September 2017. Upon discovery, Augusta University disabled the affected email accounts, requested password resets, and increased system monitoring …
A Mimecast survey has found that more than 50% of organizations say phishing attacks have increased over the past year. Respondents to Mimecast’s second annual State of Email Security report also highlight a rise in impersonation attacks, a specific kind of phishing in which a …
On August 1, 2018 the US Department of Justice announced that three high-ranking members of the Eastern European “FIN7” cyber crime group were in custody for their role in attacking more than 100 US companies. Since 2015, FIN7 has been …
The personal information of 18,000 patients at University Medical Center Health System (UMC Physicians) in Texas has potentially been compromised in a hacking attack. On May 18, 2018 the IT team discovered that an employee’s email account had been hacked …
Employees at Missouri-based Children’s Mercy Hospital fell victim to a phishing attack that compromised the personal information of more than 60,000 patients. The incident was identified on December 2, 2017, and the passwords for the compromised email accounts were promptly …
Russian threat intelligence organization Group-IB has warned that the Cobalt gang, which was responsible for stealing up to $1.2 billion from banks across the globe, has re-emerged. The gang is known for its carefully orchestrated attacks that combine phishing scams and ‘jackpotting’, in which malware dispenses …
