Here you will find all the articles with the tag: impersonation attacks.
Cybercriminals are increasingly using the Google Ads platform to spread malware as legitimate software. This is according to recent research by Guardio Labs, Trend Micro and others. Cybercriminals are increasingly spreading malware masquerading as legitimate software. They create a clone of the ... Read more
1 year ago
Fraud group 'Fangxiao' built a network of 42,000 sites that impersonate well-known businesses. The network was designed to steer victims to websites pushing adware. Fangxiao uses fake domains to generate website traffic and advertising revenue for its own websites and the websites of customers w... Read more
1 year ago
Email scammers have impersonated over 7000 CEOs since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The COVID-19 emergency has unleashed another epidemic, namely a sudden rise in the impersonation of CEOs through business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A BEC attack allows a hacker to impersonate a company execut... Read more
4 years ago
The latest report from one of the top cybersecurity firms, Kaspersky, revealed that cybercriminals are advancing their phishing attacks. These criminals are taking advantage of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to develop new ideas on how to deploy their malware. Researchers from Kaspersky said t... Read more
4 years ago
The number of impersonation attacks worldwide has increased by almost 70% in just one year. Mimecast states this in its annual State of Email Security report (pdf), which is based on research among 1,025 IT decision-makers. According to the report, impersonation attacks are 67 percent more common t... Read more
5 years ago
