These attacks are often given accompanying names: Spear phishing, Whale phishing, Smishing, Vishing, and email phishing. Thanks to modern impersonation techniques, spearheaded by various ...

Hackers also engage in video message phishing (vishing), SMS phishing (Smishing), and more. Essentially (and unfortunately), any communication format can be used for phishing, but I'll focus on ...

Vishing (voice phishing ... QR codes are now ubiquitous and cybercriminals have noticed. A new type of phishing, "quishing," ...

However, their widespread use has also opened up a new vector for phishing attacks, giving rise to QR code phishing (or quishing) attacks. With the NCSC recently warning about the rise in these ...

Phishing — or smishing if it’s performed over SMS — often sees attackers encouraging iPhone users to click on a link, which will take them to a page set up by adversaries to steal login ...

Cloud communications company Twilio was actually breached twice, not once, this past summer as a result of phishing attacks ... or mitigate similar smishing and vishing attacks in the future ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The term "smishing" is a combination of "SMS" (short message service) and "phishing." Smishing is a form of phishing, the fraudulent practice of sending ...

Scammers who prey on Apple iMessage users via phishing (or smishing) messages are doubling down on a novel tactic that tricks their victims into disabling built-in security. Spotted by ...

On the holiday scams webpage, the USPIS gave Americans warnings about the rising amount “of counterfeit stamps being sold online,” people getting “emails (phishing) or texts (smishing ...