The month of October in the threat landscape is often associated with scary social engineering tactics in time for Halloween. As in years past, the threats that lurk in and plague the current threat landscape are real. Most of them can cause irreparable damage, often resulting in information, or worse, identity theft as shown in [...]
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Trick or Threat?
We often associate Halloween with pumpkins and costumes but for cybercriminals it’s merely another avenue to exploit, steal, and trick users into giving away their personal identities. Treats are fun but we all need to be on the lookout for the sneaky and tricky ways cybercriminals slither into our computers. Below are the TrendLabs, top 7 [...]
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This Halloween, Enjoy the Treats but Be Wary of Online Tricks
A recently conducted ethical phishing (New study details the dynamics of successful phishing) experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against.
The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns are capable of bypassing anti-spam filters, and once again [...]
With all the “spooky” cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the cyber terrorism myopia that cyber [...]
Trend Micro threat analysts found several phishing sites registered in China that target specific people or companies. The said email can customize phishing URLs using the names of intended recipients via a technique called “spear phishing.”
Spear phishing has been used by cybercriminals before in attacks that involved specific targets. In the previous post, “So Is It Twitter or [...]
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Taiwan: Spear Phishers Target Gmail Users
