Vishing

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2024
OP KAERB: Europol dismantled phishing scheme targeting mobile users

A joint international law enforcement operation led by Europol dismantled a major phishing scheme targeting mobile users. Europol supported European and Latin American law enforcement agencies in dismantling an international criminal network that unlocks stolen or lost mobile phones using a phishing platform. The organization operated a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called iServer, which had over […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2022
Twilio discloses another security incident that took place in June

Twilio suffered another brief security incident in June 2022, the attack was conducted by the same threat actor of the August hack. The Communications company Twilio announced that it suffered another “brief security incident” on June 29, 2022, the attack was conducted by the same threat actor that in August compromised the company and gained access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2021
Vishing attacks conducted to steal corporate accounts, FBI warns

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a notification warning of ongoing vishing attacks attempting to steal corporate accounts. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a Private Industry Notification (PIN) that warns of ongoing vishing attacks aimed at stealing corporate accounts and credentials from US and international-based employees. Vishing (also known as voice phishing) is a social engineering […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2020
Hackers are targeting teleworkers with vishing campaign, CISA and FBI warn

The FBI and CISA issued a joint alert to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting entities from multiple US sectors. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2014
Vishing is still alive and a malicious campaign is scaring banking

Security Experts at PhishLabs revealed that a vishing campaign targeted banking industry to harvest credit/debit card data from customers. The security firm PhishLabs revealed that numerous US banks are victims of a recent Vishing (VoIP-based phishing) campaign that is targeting the payment card information of up to 250 Americans per day. Assuming that the withdrawal limits on ATM […]