Three more firms hit by targeted phishing attacks seeking W2 data

Posted on July 3, 2016

It’s happened again. Scammers have leveraged Phishing to gain access to W2 information at several firms, including technology powerhouse Seagate.

No company is immune to these types of social attacks, and organizations both large and small have become victims to a finance-based scheme that has a long reach.

Last week, Sunday in fact, Snapchat disclosed that someone had posed as the company’s CEO and requested employee payroll data. The email wasn’t viewed as a scam, but instead as a legitimate request, and thus 700 employees had their information exposed.

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A PhishLabs report by security writer Brian Krebs was featured in a CNET article warning web users about HTTPS security fraud on the Internet.

Founder and CTO of PhishLabs John LaCour spoke with FBI Special Agent Davey Ware at the RSA Conference in San Francisco to talk about how vishing attacks work to defraud victims of their money and

Half of all phishing sites now have padlocks, but are anything but secure

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