November 09, 2020
A phishing campaign is threatening targets with false claims of employment termination. The goal of the attacker is to intimidate employees into clicking on a link that will ultimately lead to Bazar or Buer malware infections by way of Trickbot....
October 20, 2020
Failure for any organization to properly register their domains poses several key risks. For example, anyone who might register an election-sensitive domain would be able to assume the identity of elections officials and send phishing emails....
October 13, 2020
Cyber criminals target Amazon Prime members. 2020 Prime Day phishing attacks attempt to steal credit card details, PII data....
October 06, 2020
President Donald Trump, election fundraising, Microsoft Office 365 used to send Emotet malware in fake Political Action Committee phishing email....
September 23, 2020
Credential harvesting phishing emails leverage GDPR compliance and exploits cloud-based services, Virtual Private Servers, to target sales executives....
August 27, 2020
Covid-19 phishing attack exploits need for face masks, thermometers to launch Agent Tesla malware (advanced Remote Access Trojan); bypasses gateways, DMARC....
August 17, 2020
The creators of two Microsoft phishing campaigns, that Area 1 has dubbed “Summer Bonus”, are attempting to lure unsuspecting employees into divulging their Microsoft credentials....
July 26, 2020
With only 100 days until Election Day, Area 1 Security’s new “Phishing Election Administrators” report assesses the depth of current email security controls used by 10,000 U.S. state and local election administrators....
July 20, 2020
On July 16th, 2020, an email appearing to be from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was sent to numerous recipients, seeking donations for the Foundation in Bitcoin....
