Microsoft Account Email Phishing Attempt Looks Legitimate

March 26th, 2019

Researchers have discovered a pair of nasty phishing campaigns that are making use of Microsoft's Azure Blob Storage in a bid to steal the recipient's Microsoft and Outlook account credentials.

Both campaigns are noteworthy in that they utilize well-constructed landing pages that have SSL certificates and a windows.

Bots Are Attacking Retail Sites On A Large Scale

March 22nd, 2019

If you own a retail business, an attack known as "credential stuffing" is the latest online threat to be concerned about.  If you're not sure what that is, read on and prepare to be dismayed. According to the 2019 State of the Internet, Retail Attacks, and TPI Traffic Report published by Akamai, there has been an surge in large scale botnet attacks against businesses, with retail outlets being the hardest hit.

New Amazon Order Confirmation Emails Could Be Phishing Attempts

January 11th, 2019

According to Alexa, Amazon is the 4th most visited website in the United States and ranks 8th worldwide.  To say that it gets a lot of traffic every day would be an understatement, which is why a newly discovered phishing campaign pretending to come from Amazon is so disturbing.

New Phishing Attacks Look Like Emails From Apple

January 2nd, 2019

There's a new, widespread phishing campaign underway that you need to be aware of if you use the Apple App store at all.  At this time, no one knows who's behind the campaign, but already, a surprising number of people have been taken in by it.

The campaign works like this:

You'll receive an email that appears to be from Apple confirming your recent purchase of a $30 app.

Hackers Target Users Of Google Maps With Bank Phone Scam

December 10th, 2018

Google relies on crowd sourcing to help keep its maps up to date.  There's no other approach that even comes close to being feasible.  Sure, Google has employees on the job, roving the nation's highways, byways, and back streets. Even if the company employed ten times the number they're currently using, their maps wouldn't be nearly as accurate as they've become via crowd sourcing.

New Fake Antivirus Tech Support Scam Tricking Users

October 31st, 2018

McAfee has long been a popular target of scammers, but recently, they've changed the nature of their game.

In years past, they'd display a webpage informing you that any McAfee products on your computer are out of date and provide a link to the company's virtual storefront where you could renew.

Uninstall Fake App Called “The Album by Google Photos”

October 30th, 2018

If you take a lot of photos with your Android device, you're probably constantly on the lookout for a better way to organize them and access them.  That's exactly what the authors of the malicious app called "The Album, by Google Photos" are hoping for.

HIPAA Fines For Data Breaches Continue To Grow

October 29th, 2018

Anthem is one of the largest insurance providers in the United States. Unfortunately in 2015, they had the dubious honor of suffering the largest health data breach in history. It left protected health information of nearly 79 million of their customers exposed.

How Long Before You Experience A Cyber Attack?

October 6th, 2018

According to this year's Traveler's Risk Index, published by The Traveler's Indemnity Company, a majority of business owners have a somewhat fatalistic view of hacking and data breaches.

The index includes 52 percent of survey respondents indicating that they believe a cyber-attack is inevitable.

Your Business Email Is Highly Targeted For Attacks

September 24th, 2018

There's a new report out, authored by ProofPoint, and its findings for business are grim.

It's no secret that businesses of all shapes and sizes are coming under increasing fire from hackers around the world.

Now we have hard data that shows us exactly how big of an increase we're seeing.