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Compromised employee accounts leading to most expensive data breaches: IBM
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): IBM Security on Wednesday announced the results of a global study examining the financial impact of data breaches, showing that these incidents cost companies 3.86 million dollars per breach on average and that compromised employee accounts were the most exp
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Maharashtra issues advisory regarding cyber attacks from China
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 23 (ANI): Maharashtra Cyber Department has issued an advisory regarding "Chinese cyber attackers planning a large scale phishing attack", revealing that at least 40,300 such cyber-attacks have been attempted in the last 4-5 days which can be traced to Cheng
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Google says it sent fewer phishing warnings in 2019
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed there were fewer phishing attacks last year compared to the year before, indicating its new protections are working.
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Instagram rolls out new feature to prevent phishing attacks
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
California [USA], October 8 (ANI): Instagram has added a new feature that is aimed at tackling phishing attacks carried out through social media platforms.
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New bug leaves android smartphones vulnerable to SMS phishing attacks: Che
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 7 (ANI): Android smartphones from leading manufacturers have a security flaw that leaves them vulnerable to advanced SMS phishing attacks, Check Point Research has revealed.
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Google Chrome bug can allow phishing attacks using 'inception bar'
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 29 (ANI): A security vulnerability in Google Chrome browser reportedly allows malicious users to launch a phishing attack using a fake address bar.
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Phishing attacks more than double in 2018: Kaspersky
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 15 (ANI): Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has said that its anti-phishing system prevented more than 482 million attempts to visit fraudulent webpages during 2018, a two-fold increase on 2017 when 236 million such attempts were blocked.
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Over 1/3 of phishing attacks target financial sector customers in Q2
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The second quarter of 2018 witnessed over 107 million attempts to visit phishing pages, of which 35.7 percent were related to financial services and targeting customers through fake banking or payment pages.
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Financial threats in 2016: every second phishing attack aims to steal your
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 24 (ANI): Almost half of all phishing attacks (fraudulent email messages or copycat websites that appear legitimate) registered in 2016 by Kaspersky Lab's heuristic detection technologies, were aimed at stealing their victim's money, according to an analysis
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The Black Friday Heist: Financial phishing increases during holiday season
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.15 (ANI): The number of financial phishing attacks is expected to rise during the Holiday season which starts unofficially on so-called Black Friday and continues through Cyber Monday and Christmas.
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