Another day, another couple of rogue sponsored tweets [1], [2] which lead to phishing. There is a 0% chance this isn’t a phishing scheme pic.twitter.com/GvfwL6iUuf — Mourt Goldman (@Ryan_Mourton) January 8, 2017 The account pushing the first phish has now been deleted, but it’s trivial to set up another one – and the phishing URL … [Read more…]

Introduction Last November we conducted a brief analysis of the threat landscape over the holiday period – from October to December in 2014 and 2015 – to find out if the number of financial cyberattacks during this time differs to that usually seen throughout the year. The retrospective analysis found that the percentage of phishing … [Read more…]

This post was co-authored by @hasherezade and Jérôme Segura During the Christmas season and early into the new year, we noticed a sharp decrease in spam volume, perhaps as online criminals took a break from their malicious activities and popped the champagne to celebrate. It could also have been a time to regroup and plan new strategies for the … [Read more…]