The spear
phishing attack targeted the personal information of scores of users.
The exchange explained that it had seen sophisticated
phishing attacks targeting its users since early January, and around February 22nd there was a sharp uptake in phishing emails pointing to similar - looking domains but using unicode characters (under the «i» and the «a» of «binance.com»
Not exact matches
«Sometimes even the most careful and security - minded users are successfully
attacked through
phishing scams, especially if those
phishing scams were individually
targeted at the user in question.»
Also, some rare
attacks twist the traditional
phishing message to
target mobile phones.
Employees of several pipeline companies have been
targets of spear -
phishing attacks — efforts to lure them to click on email attachments containing malicious code.
They began with a simple
phishing email, similar to the one Russian hackers used in the
attacks on the Democratic National Committee and other
targets last year.
Co-founder and Executive Director of United We Dream, Cristina Jimenez explains, «Our movement is led by undocumented immigrants and people of color, and under Trump we've seen our members
targeted in
phishing attacks online and chased by white supremacists out in the streets.»
through a «
phishing»
attack targeting Associated Press employees.
On Thursday, Bee Token became the latest crowdfunding campaign to get
attacked (this time, it was a
phishing scam
targeting emails and Telegram).
It was reported that North Korean government - backed hackers
targeted South Korean cryptocurrency exchange customers using security flaws in software and spear
phishing attacks.
Of course, there might be other explanations such as improved awareness among the public of security issues and identity theft and the like as well as more effective and so protective software and security systems on putative
targets of cybercrime including as email
phishing attacks on bank account, for example.
The next day, eHarmony's accounting department was
targeted by an identical
phishing attack in which scammers pretending to be eHarmony CEO requested W - 2s for salary review.
In the examples above the hackers were after client data stored on firm servers, but they can also
target client trust account money through spear -
phishing attacks or malware attached to emails.
The biggest risk that comes from a stolen email address is that you or someone you know might be
targeted by
phishing attacks, which accounted for 20 percent of recorded data breach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations report.
Sometimes even the most careful and security - minded users are successfully
attacked through
phishing scams, especially if those
phishing scams were individually
targeted at the user in question.
The information could be harnessed for more
targeted attacks, such as
phishing.
However, some users of MyEtherWallet have reported being
targeted by
phishing attacks and hackers, so you'll need to remember to take security precautions when using this free platform.
On a more positive note, most exchanges appear to be very resilient to the frequent DDoS and
targeted phishing attacks.
Now, according to reports by a US cyber security firm, SecureWorks, the group may be plotting to use
targeted email and
phishing attacks on well - known people in the cryptocurrency space.
Spies have used LinkedIn to identify
targets for spear -
phishing attacks.
The malware is capable of identifying a variety of financial and retail mobile apps on the infected devices and tailors the
phishing attack to display a fake version of the banking app the victim uses, if the
target bank is recognized by the malware.
The attackers are actively
targeting its initial coin offering (ICO) with
phishing attacks and have already duped gullible investors for over $ 1 million worth of Ethereum.
Typically, these
attacks were intended to
target unsuspecting users into signing up or giving out their private keys to a
phishing website.
Thisgroup aims to help participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem protect their assetsfrom
phishing and
targeted attacks.
The result is as one would expect:
phishing and
targeted attacks have almost become the new normal.
According to the FortiGuard Labs team, an
attack was observed
targeting South Korea, which arrives via
phishing emails using a variety of social engineering contexts.
Phishing attacks to steal user or administrator passwords are the most common
attack vector, but cybercriminals are also going after mobile wallets and
targeting weaknesses in the blockchain.
Modern organizations struggle with the scale, trusted nature, and lack of visibility of these platforms, and they're vulnerable against a new breed of highly - effective
attacks outside the perimeter, ranging from
targeted phishing and spoofed accounts to executive threats and data loss.
One of the methods used by the North Korean hacking group was Spear
Phishing, the FireEye report stated, which targeted individual cryptocurrency users with highly sophisticated phishing attacks and
Phishing, the FireEye report stated, which
targeted individual cryptocurrency users with highly sophisticated
phishing attacks and
phishing attacks and malware.