Phishing

About a dozen Saudi Arabian agencies were singled out for spearphishing attacks aimed at placing cyberespionage malware on government computers using an infected Word document.

A Lithuanian national has been arrested for defrauding two major tech companies out of $100 million by pretending to be a business affiliate.

Proofpoint reports a 45 percent increase in business email compromise (BEC) attacks during the closing months of 2016.

A spearphishing scammer demanded a sex show from a private citizen after obtaining the victim's email credentials.

With tax scammers redoubling their efforts in the waning days of the 2017 tax season, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning to tax professionals and citizens to be on the lookout for last-minute scams.

The cybersecurity firm Defense Point Security that holds several government contracts told its employees it was hit with a W-2 phishing scam resulting in the exposure of all the personally identifiable information.

A spam campaign that targets recipients with personalized messages is spreading in Germany, similar to a previous scourge there earlier this year and another that spread in the U.K. in April 2016.

A new cloud-based keylogger has hit the market, resulting in a small number of cybercriminals attempting to infect businesses and collect keystrokes, system information, stored passwords, screenshots, and game credentials.