Phishing

A phishing attack compromised the information of Waldo County employees in Maine.

Despite its relatively small pool of viable targets, the malicious Windows-based downloader Hancitor continues to surface in malspam campaigns that recently have relied heavily on distribution servers set up via fraudulent hosting provider accounts, a new blog post report states.

Cybercriminals are exploiting traditional measures of trust to gain a foothold on users systems by compromising trusted sites.

Grand Rapids, Mich.'s Police Department are warning people about a Netflix scam looking to dupe users out of their payment information.

The small Iowan city of Keokuk has disclosed that a cybercriminal used a phishing scam to fraudulently obtain an electronic file containing the 2017 W-2 tax forms of current and former employees and elected officials.

The FBI has issued a warning that scammers are crafting phishing emails that impersonate the agency's Internet Crime Complaint Center, claiming recipients were recently defrauded, and in some cases offering restitution if the individuals provide personal information.