Active Phishing Campaigns are coordinated attacks that Fortra has observed bypassing email security gateways and filtering tools. The following analysis includes examples, high-level details, and associated threat indicators ..read more

Active Phishing Campaigns are coordinated attacks that Fortra has observed bypassing email security gateways and filtering tools. The following analysis includes examples, high-level details, and associated threat indicators. Sample Email Lure ..read more

QR phishing is currently considered a high priority risk capable of bypassing existing security controls, according to the latest article from Cyber Security Intelligence. QR Phishing, otherwise known as Quishing, is an extension of phishing attacks that is gaining popularity among threat actors who understand many email systems have difficulty reading the contents of the code ..read more

Threat Background & History Beginning in the first half of 2022, Fortra has monitored a significant ongoing upward trend in fraud activity originating from various Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) operations. Some of these services have thrived, while the popularity of others has diminished. One PhaaS operation that has notably been present throughout the past two years is known as Strox (aka Strox.su or Strox Pages ..read more

Is your 401k a target for cybercriminals? According to the latest article from U.S. News, warning signs such as missing contributions and unexplained transactions could indicate your retirement funds are at risk. Check out the article here to learn what signs could indicate that something is amiss, and best practices from Fortra’s security expert Eric George on how to protect your accounts ..read more

In July 2021, the White House established a voluntary initiative for industrial control systems (ICS) to promote cooperation between the critical infrastructure community and the federal government. The fundamental purpose of the initiative was “to defend the nation’s critical infrastructure community by encouraging and facilitating the deployment of technologies and systems that provide threat visibility, indications, detection, and warnings” to enable effective responses in industrial businesses against evolving cybersecurity threats ..read more

One of our Digital Risk Protection service customers, LastPass, is committed to monitoring the cyber threat environment to keep our customers as secure as possible. To highlight this commitment, we want to call attention to recent joint efforts to disrupt a phishing campaign targeting LastPass customers and associates that began two weeks ago. We are sharing this with you not because it is a new or unique threat, but to underscore the efforts we are taking to disrupt this threat and ones like it ..read more

Fortra’s PhishLabs has identified two separate incidents of new Google top-level domain (TLD) .zip used in phishing attacks. The attacks, detailed in the September issue of Cyber Defense Magazine, use .zip to impersonate a social media conglomerate and global technology company ..read more

According to Forta’s Phishlabs, credit unions became the top targeted industry on the dark web in Q2, surpassing banking institutions for the first time since we began reporting on this data in 2021. Financial institutions as a whole experienced the vast majority of abuse, with compromised credit card data leading all threat types on the dark web ..read more

Cybercriminals doubled down on popular threat types and preferred malicious software in Q2, with O365 phish and QBot malware dominating inboxes by significant margins. QBot operations eclipsed all other malware once again, reaching their highest volume of share just before a multinational takedown Tuesday removed malicious code from more than 700,000 computers ..read more