Phishing

Kaspersky researchers say they blocked more than 8,000 business email compromise (BEC) attacks in Q4 of 2021, many of them large-scale events or so-called BEC-as-a-Service attacks.

Proofpoint’s State of the Phish report says cybercriminals continue to focus on attacking people versus gaining access to systems via technical vulnerabilities.

Egress researchers say attackers are targeting Microsoft Outlook 365 users in North America and the United Kingdom.

Researchers say a phony site was up the morning of Feb. 3 and SMS messages were sent to customers of UnionBank of the Philippines for some three hours.

Low-code automaton can accelerate investigations, responses and resolutions, thus mitigate phishing attacks.

Researchers report finding a new banking trojan, dubbed "Medusa," targeting Android devices that uses the same file names as the Cabassous malware, AKA FluBot.

Microsoft reported that it was able to avert over 25.6 billion brute-force authentication attacks in Azure Active Directory, as well as 35.7 billion phishing emails using Microsoft Defender for Office 365.