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PayPal Phishing Attacks

Covers phishing campaigns that impersonate PayPal to steal login credentials, financial data, and personal information. Posts analyze common PayPal phishing email templates, fake login pages, and fraudulent transaction alerts, while providing actionable tips to verify legitimate PayPal communications and secure your account.

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PayPal Phishing Attacks

PayPal Phishing Attacks: How to Spot and Stop Them

In January 2021, a wave of PayPal phishing attacks hit inboxes so convincingly that even security-savvy professionals did a double take. The emails replicated PayPal's branding pixel-for-pixel, warned of "unusual activity" on the recipient's account, and linked to a login page hosted on a

Carl B. Johnson Aug 15, 2021 7 min read
PayPal Phishing Attacks

PayPal Phishing Attacks: How to Spot and Stop Them

A Single PayPal Email Cost One Business Owner $68,000 I got the call on a Tuesday morning. A small business owner in Ohio had received what looked like a routine PayPal dispute notification. She clicked the link, entered her credentials, and within four hours, a threat actor had drained

Carl B. Johnson Apr 05, 2019 8 min read