Messaging Apps and Social Media Platforms Enable Phishing Scams
In this blog, we explore how scammers are having success phishing on SMS/messaging and chat apps, as well as social media platforms. Learn how to mitigate threats.
zvelo’s Phishing Detection systems leverage human-supervised machine learning and crowd-sourced continuous ActiveWeb monitoring in order to identify and track millions of active phishing URLs. Stay up to date and protect your networks and users with the latest targeted and “Zero-Minute” phishing URLs and campaigns.
Delivering Real-Time Protection For Malicious, Phishing, and Objectionable URLs
In this blog, we explore the category updates that require real-time protection as well as how we deliver instant updates to URL databases worldwide.
2019 State of Phishing and What’s Next For Phishing Detection
Ransomware is so 2017. Today, targeted phishing poses the most significant risk. But how did we get here and what’s next for AI-based Phishing Detection.
How to Spot and Protect Against Phishing Websites
Unfortunately, protecting yourself against malicious threats online is constant battle in this day and age. Security researchers and media outlets have a seemingly never-ending list of topics and events to cover—driving a constant pressure and awareness that we’re not safe online.
What is an IDN Homograph Attack and How Do You Protect Yourself?
An internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack is a method of deceiving computer users about the remote computer they’re communicating with. It exploits the fact that many characters are homographs, meaning they look alike. Homographs allow a malicious party to create an IDN that appears very similar to an established domain, which can then be used to lure users to the new website.
Mobile Phishing Attacks: 9 Tips to Improve Security
Over the past several years, there’s been a significant increase in mobile phishing attacks—particularly targeting enterprises. In this blog, we cover 9 tips and strategies to improve your security against mobile phishing attacks.
2018 Phishing Campaign Against Stripe Payment Processing Users
Over the years, cybercriminals have deployed increasingly sophisticated scams to deceive users of payment processing systems—particularly small and medium sized business owners—into compromising their accounts by unknowingly divulging account credentials. Here’s an example of a recent phishing campaign from Fall 2018 targeting Stripe users.
Increase in Mobile Phishing Scams Targeting Apple ID Users
A trend forming among newly identified phishing URLs shows bad actors sending fraudulent emails informing Apple ID users of outdated Apple ID information or problems with billing. The emails and internal links attempt to deceive Apple ID users into “verifying” account information. When the user proceeds to log in, the form handing over access credentials to their accounts.
Phishing Websites Detected by zvelo
Prior to this blog post, zveloLABS published a phishing URL alert about fake Apple account verification websites. Now, zvelo’s team of engineers and researchers has unearthed a new phishing attack campaign using fraudulent Facebook log-in sites.
Phishing Website Alert: Fake My Apple ID Account Verification URL
zveloLABS discovered a phishing website masquerading as an account verification page for Apple IDs, as depicted in the following screenshot and explained in this blog post.