Threat actors have to host their malicious login stealing pages somewhere – why not in Amazon’s cloud: Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud
Credential thefts and Amazon’s AWS cloud
Tourist rebound after COVID-19 is an obvious target for phishing attacks
Research company Proofpoint, has shown that the threat actor, tracked as TA558, has increased it’s phishing campaigns targeted at hotel and travel companies, to coincide with the rapid increase in foreign travel as the pandemic decreases. Hackers target hotel and travel companies with fake reservations (bleepingcomputer.com) Threat actors are always …
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Phishing attacks are meant to deceive everyone…
Even someone like me and Dan Goodwin, who wrote the linked article – people who work in cybersecurity all the time. I’m a security reporter and got fooled by a blatant phish | Ars Technica It is worth reading to see what you are dealing with, when it comes to …
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Personal data leaked in another “sophisticated” attack
First see what I have to say about “sophisticated attacks” then we will get into this leak of personal information by an organisation that should have a reasonable spend on cyber-security! Twilio – a communications and phone company based in San Francisco – is reluctant to give away much information on …
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Seasonal article over on CyberAwake
With the holiday season well underway, I thought we would take a look at the cyber security implications of the Out-of-Office notification:
