The Internal Revenue Service is warning of an email-based phishing scam that impersonates tax software providers, in order to trick professional accountants into giving away their log-in credentials for these services.
Of 100 infosecurity professionals surveyed, 34 percent fingered Russia as the biggest threat to cybersecurity in the U.S., followed closely by organized crime at 33 percent, according to a Cylance blog post.
The Chrome version the app Copyfish was compromised to push out ads and spam after an employee for its developer At9t fell for a phishing scam and gave access to the company's Play Store account to an unauthorized individual.
Researchers at Imperva recently set up fake online accounts and intentionally allowed themselves to be phished by scammers in order to observe how behavior cybercriminals act after they come into possession of a victim's credentials.
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