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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Krebs on Security

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. million in an elaborate voice phishing attack. The phishing domain used to steal roughly $4.7 Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo. “ Annie.”

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Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers

Malwarebytes

We identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft’s search engine. One particularly interesting detail is how a phishing website created barely two weeks ago is already indexed and displayed before the official one. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already.

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End-to-end phishing resistance that’s actually deployable

Duo's Security Blog

They know your organization likely uses multi-factor authentication (MFA). Phishing-resistant MFA is the answer, but—it’s been notoriously difficult to implement at scale for all workers and all use cases. Complete passwordless authentication Passwords are the weakest link in the authentication chain, and attackers know it.

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Vulnerability Recap 10/28/24 – Phishing, DoS, RCE & a Zero-Day

eSecurity Planet

We’ll also look at increased phishing attacks, a couple of different Cisco flaws, and a Fortinet vulnerability that took some time to get its own CVE. The attacker must be authenticated and have Site Owner permissions to conduct the attack, but with those, they could inject and execute arbitrary code in SharePoint Server contexts.

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The great Google Ads heist: criminals ransack advertiser accounts via fake Google ads

Malwarebytes

Table of contents Overview Criminals impersonate Google Ads Lures hosted on Google Sites Phishing for Google account credentials Victimology Who is behind these campaigns? Figure 12: The actual phishing page that follows Finally, all the data is combined with the username and password and sent to the remote server via a POST request.

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The Anatomy of a Phishing Email

Security Through Education

One of the most common tactics threat actors use to trick individuals into giving up sensitive information, like login credentials, is phishing emails. According to Proofpoint’s 2024 report 91% of all cyber-attacks start with phishing. Spear phishing emails on the other hand are carefully crafted to target a specific individual.

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Level Up Your Security: Embrace Passkeys and Phishing-Resistant 2FA

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Level Up Your Security: Embrace Passkeys and Phishing-Resistant 2FA andrew.gertz@t Fri, 01/31/2025 - 15:17 Celebrate Change Your Password Day and 2FA Day by embracing passkeys and phishing-resistant 2FA. Learn why these modern security practices are essential for safer, stronger authentication. Passwordless authentication.