Nov 30, 2023NewsroomMachine Learning / Email Security Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail. "RETVec is trained to be resilient against character-level manipulations including insertion, deletion, typos, … [Read more...] about Google Unveils RETVec – Gmail’s New Defense Against Spam and Malicious Emails
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Improve Your Security WordPress Spam Protection With CleanTalk Anti-Spam
Jul 03, 2023The Hacker NewsWebsite Security Tool Every website owner or webmaster grapples with the issue of spam on their website forms. The volume of spam can be so overwhelming that finding useful information within it becomes quite challenging. What exacerbates this issue is that spam can populate your public pages, appearing in comments and reviews. You likely understand … [Read more...] about Improve Your Security WordPress Spam Protection With CleanTalk Anti-Spam
Emotet and Qbot in spam mailouts
Our experts have detected significant growth in complex malicious spam e-mails targeting organizations in various countries. The number of these malicious e-mails grew from around 3000 in February 2022 to approximately 30,000 in March. So far, our technologies have detected malicious e-mails written in English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian … [Read more...] about Emotet and Qbot in spam mailouts
Spam mail with scammers’ phone numbers
With the colossal amount of telephone scamming these days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a phone owner anywhere on the planet who hasn’t been a scammer’s target at least once. But like all forms of cold calling, phone scams are resource-intensive and highly inefficient. Therefore, some scammers try to optimize the process by getting potential victims to call them. One tool they … [Read more...] about Spam mail with scammers’ phone numbers
Malicious spam spreading banking Trojans
For employees facing hundreds of e-mails, the temptation to speed-read and download attachments on autopilot can be great. Cybercriminals, of course, take advantage, sending out seemingly important documents that might contain just about anything from phishing links to malware. Our experts recently discovered two very similar spam campaigns distributing the IcedID and Qbot … [Read more...] about Malicious spam spreading banking Trojans
COVID-19 in spam and phishing related to deliveries
It would be hard to find a sphere of human activity untouched by the coronavirus pandemic, and express delivery services are no exception. Transport flows between countries have been disrupted, and there is a shortage of cargo planes as people and companies continue to order goods both domestically and from abroad. Demand for some items has even shot up. The spikes in demand … [Read more...] about COVID-19 in spam and phishing related to deliveries
New Apple ID Phishing Effort Compromises Over 100 Sites
Security firm Trend Micro outlined a new phishing scam that has seen the perpetrators compromise over 100 sites in their attempts to gain access to users' Apple ID accounts. While Apple IDs are relatively popular targets for phishing scams, Trend Micro's analysis offers some interesting detail on the approaches used by the criminals. We’ve identified a total of 110 compromised … [Read more...] about New Apple ID Phishing Effort Compromises Over 100 Sites