Originally published in BLEEPINGCOMPUTER Excerpt: "U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of millions of incidents analyzed during the last year by threat intelligence company PhishLabs." Read the full article here .

Overall phishing attack volume grew 40.9% in 2018 Charleston, S.C., April 16, 2019 – PhishLabs, the leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect against social engineering, today released its 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report . Using data collected from millions of social engineering attacks spanning email, web, social media, SMS, and mobile channels, the report highlights...

Half of all phishing sites now have padlocks, but are anything but secure Originally published in TechRadar Excerpt: "The padlock icon next to a web address used to let users know that a site is legitimate and secure but now new research from PhishLabs suggests that this is no longer the case as have of all phishing scams are now hosted on websites that have the padlock and begin with HTTPS." Read...

Winners announced at InfoSec World 2017 in Orlando. Charleston, S.C., April 20, 2017 – PhishLabs , the leading provider of 24/7 phishing defense and intelligence solutions, today announced it was recently ranked highest in cybersecurity client experience in the category of Cybercrime Threat Intelligence by Black Book TM of Cybersecurity LLC, a division of Brown-Wilson Group, Inc. The announcement...

The FBI dubbed the category of attacks “business email compromise” in an August advisory . At that time, the Bureau estimated that, since 2013, the total dollar losses to American companies exceeded $740 million, while only hitting around 7,000 targets. When international victims are added in, the losses total $1.2 billion. Don Jackson, threat researcher and malware analyst for PhishLabs explains...

It’s happened again. Scammers have leveraged Phishing to gain access to W2 information at several firms, including technology powerhouse Seagate. No company is immune to these types of social attacks, and organizations both large and small have become victims to a finance-based scheme that has a long reach. Last week, Sunday in fact, Snapchat disclosed that someone had posed as the company’s CEO...

From Bloomberg The malware known as ZeuS and its rogue creator have been at the cutting edge of cyber-crime for nearly a decade. With repeated enhancements, ZeuS and its offspring became juggernauts of cyber bank robbery—turning millions of computers into global networks of zombie machines enslaved by criminals. Conservative estimates of their haul reach well into hundreds of millions of dollars...

From SecurityWeek . The complete source code for the Android remote access Trojan (RAT) called Dendroid has been leaked online, which researchers from PhishLabs have found contains several vulnerabilities. “The lack of user input validation in Dendroid’s control panel is severe, especially when you consider the level of operational security needed in even smaller crimeware campaigns,” PhishLabs...

From SC Magazine: Hackers are compromising online banking and social media users in a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack campaign that involves posing as major organizations – and they are doing it without setting off alerts, according to researchers with PhishLabs. More than 70 recognizable financial organizations around the globe have been targeted so far in the campaign, according to PhishLabs...