Threat Spotlight: Evolving ‘we know where you live’ tactics personalize sextortion scams
Sextortion scams are a type of extortion where criminals attempt to extort money from victims by threatening to release explicit images or videos unless demands are met. Leveraging usernames and passwords stolen in data breaches, criminals contact victims and claim...
Threat Spotlight: The evolving use of QR codes in phishing attacks
QR code phishing, also known as quishing, is a type of social engineering attack. Cybercriminals try to trick victims into using the camera on their mobile phone to scan a QR code that goes to a malicious website to steal sensitive...
Threat Spotlight: Phishing emails using Adobe InDesign on the rise
Barracuda security researchers are warning of a recent surge in phishing attacks leveraging Adobe InDesign, a known and trusted document publishing system. Some of the attacks are targeted. According to Barracuda telemetry, there has been a near 30-fold increase since October in...
