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A new phishing email abused a legitimate web service in an attempt to phish users’ Netflix account credentials.

Zix | AppRiver spotted a tech support scam in which digital fraudsters claimed that victims had viewed adult content on their computers. Researcher at Zix | AppRiver received an email in mid-June 2020 that claimed to originate from Microsoft Support.

Over the next few days we’ll unpack all the best bits of Microsoft Inspire and end it all with a virtual happy hour on Friday afternoon.

In case you're unfamiliar, let me introduce you to our long-time antagonist since 2014, Emotet.

Security researchers detected a phishing campaign whose attack emails employed numerous tricks to steal recipients’ Bank of America (BOA) account credentials.

Over the past 24 hours alone, Zix/AppRiver advanced email threat protection filters have stopped over 88,000 messages attempting to abuse legitimate forms and survey services. The total count of blocked attacks jumps to an astonishing 590,000 messages over the course of the past week.

  Security researchers discovered a new phishing campaign that abused Samsung, Adobe and Oxford services to steal victims Office 365 credentials.

We have been closely monitoring Conversation Hijacking Attacks (CHA) ever since we uncovered the activity back in late 2017.

The Zix/AppRiver threat team is no stranger to the Phorphiex/Trik botnet and its wide-ranging attacks.

Digital attackers are using malspam campaigns to target organizations that are looking to purchase Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) with Lokibot and other malware.

The malicious actors behind the Emotet malware family are now leveraging conversation hijacking attack techniques to deliver the Qakbot banking trojan.

Malicious actors didn’t waste any time in exploiting people’s fears surrounding coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Troy Gill, manager of security research at Zix | AppRiver, couldn’t agree more: