Vishing, now there’s a new term for you. Basically its Phishing - but utilising VoIP call services, which makes it very easy to spoof the Caller ID.
Even though Caller ID Spoofing was Made Illegal in the USA - people will still continue to do it, remember the FCC said it’s still easy to spoof caller [...]

Now this is a massive growth, 8000% percent..woah!
Thankfully losses are still ‘modest’ whatever that means, I guess although the attacks grow in
number, awareness an education also increases (in places like UK anyway) so the risk is fairly well mitigated.

UK incidents of phishing scams have grown 8,000 per cent over the last two years, according to [...]

It seems common in most things, and it’s the same in infosec and especially malware, phishing and spam.
The majority of malware, phishing attacks and spam mails are coming from the same few sources, I’d say it’s a case of 80/20.
20% of the people are sending 80% of the messages, one of the big groups is [...]

It seems like phishers are changing their tactics to those similar to spammers, rather than going for big targets and mass mails they are turning to more wealthy customers and fewer but larger bounties.
Imagine if they can nail a few big ones, they are set.

Online fraudsters are turning their attentions away from large banks and [...]

Phishing is a difficult enough form of fraud to avoid for most computer users, but when some of the biggest names in the financial industry fail to do their part to detect and eliminate these online scams, consumers often are placed in an untenable situation.
Case in point: A source recently forwarded a link to one [...]