Phishing is a form of identity theft whereby someone steals or uses personal or sensitive information of another person by hacking into one's personal account, hijacking one's data and taking over one's online identity, to commit fraudulent acts or crimes.
Once activated, the malware generates a lot of Internet traffic, resulting in high bills. Interestingly, Eset found that this app exclusively attacks Android devices without a security solution installed.
A decade-long cyber espionage operation for stealing sensitive information from India and several Asean countries was discovered by US-based online security firm FireEye.
Notable brands like Target, Neiman Marcus, PF Chang?s, Staples, Michaels Stores, and Home Depot have all have become victims of point of sale (POS) security breaches targeting consumer payment card data.
Of the approximately 19,000 survey respondents from 144 countries, only 3% were able to correctly identify every example correctly and 80% of all respondents misidentified at least one of the phishing emails, which is all it takes to fall victim to an attack.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services provider IPC (IP Converge Data Services, Inc.) recently sounded the alarm on the increased risk of internet attacks via a new vector, based on a recent report by their partner in DDoS defense, Nexusguard.
Although security spending is at an all-time high, security breaches at major organizations are also at an all-time high, according to analyst firm Gartner.
The discovery was made by Kaspersky Lab experts during research into the activity of Naikon, a cyberespionage group also targeting organizations in the Asia Pacific region.
