OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state is among those being targeted by a “large-scale, highly sophisticated” nationwide phishing campaign, the office of Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — For the third straight day, federal prosecutors have announced criminal charges accusing Iranian nationals with conducting cyberattacks in the U.S., with the charges this...

PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland have issued an advisory about an apparent email phishing scam targeting firearms dealers in the state.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding to...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska attorney general has warned residents to look out for scammers posing as employees of the Alaska USA Federal Credit Union.

NEW YORK (AP) — Phishing scams that infect a computer and potentially allow hackers to invade bank and other accounts are highly preventable — but it takes eternal vigilance on the part of...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who hacked Los Angeles County court computers, sent 2 million malicious phishing emails and stole hundreds of credit card numbers has been sentenced in Los...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new state report shows Connecticut's utilities are "well aware of the increasing dangers" of cyberattacks and appear to have successfully thwarted recent threats they...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said computer services are being restored in Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions after a phishing attack.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Personal information of more than 6,000 people became exposed in a phishing attack on the Oregon Judicial Department.

The department said Thursday the attack occurred at...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Officials say patients' health information may have been compromised after a phishing email was sent to an Oregon State Hospital employee earlier this month.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says one of its contractors fell for an email phishing scheme, and personal information belonging to more than 2,000 clients might...

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a Georgia man accused of running an email phishing scheme and stealing $20,000 from an Alabama bank.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts hospital says a data breach exposed information about some 12,000 patients.

Baystate Health of Springfield said Monday that a phishing incident...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University officials say some employees didn't receive their paychecks recently after being victims of an e-mail phishing scheme.

Computer hackers asked the employees through a scam that asked them to type in their university ID number and password, giving scammers access bank account numbers, student records and other personal information.

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — Officials say a southeastern New Mexico county has become the latest victim of a phishing scam after an employee was duped into sending money to a fake account.

The Hobbs News-Sun reports Lea County Manager Mike Gallagher said last week a fraudulent email purporting and appearing to be from one of the recent fair and rodeo's vendors sought payment of $32,500 and an employee paid the wire transfer.

LONDON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts at consulting firm Accenture are warning that Russian hackers are using public interest in Brexit as a lure in their latest phishing emails.

The company's security division issued an advisory Thursday about a Brexit-themed document intended to deliver malware to targets.

Accenture said the Microsoft Word file started circulating the same day this month that the British government agreed on a draft of its agreement to leave the European Union.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A University of Missouri spokesman on Wednesday said a Missouri Democratic Party email seeking interns ended up in the inboxes of most faculty, staff and students at the Columbia campus, and that someone then used the email addresses for a phishing attempt.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — UnityPoint Health says a phishing attack on its email system could have compromised the health and personal information of 16,000 patients.

The Des Moines Register reports that the system discovered on Feb. 15 that a phishing attack had affected some employee email accounts. A letter sent to patients on Monday says accounts may have been accessed between Nov. 1 and Feb. 7.

PHONE AND PHISHING SCAMS

Income tax filing season brings an increase in activity by would-be thieves using phone calls and email to try to get money out of taxpayers. That warning comes from the IRS.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan auditors who conducted a fake "phishing" attack on 5,000 randomly selected state employees said Friday that nearly one-third opened the email, a quarter clicked on the link and almost one-fifth entered their user ID and password.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Chinese nationals are accused of operating a cybersecurity firm that used phishing scams and malware to steal data from international corporations.

A federal indictment unsealed Monday in Pittsburgh says the trio's targets included Siemens AG, Moody's Analytics in New York and Trimble Inc. in Sunnyvale, California.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A two-part computer phishing scam made to steal banking passwords has attacked University of Illinois computer users and their off-campus email contacts from as far as Ohio.

W-2 SCAM

The IRS is warning businesses about a sharp increase in email phishing scams involving employees' W-2 forms — scams that can put staffers' Social Security numbers and other critical information in the hands of thieves.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian businessman suspected of tricking more than $100 million out of Google and Facebook in an elaborate cybercrime case should be extradited to the United States, a local court ruled Friday.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Nigerian citizen has been arrested in a phishing scheme that targeted school districts in Connecticut and Minnesota in an effort to get employees' personal information and file bogus tax returns, federal authorities said Friday.

DAVENPORT, Fla. (AP) — The computer systems of a Florida-based, voter-registration-software company were never compromised, the company's chief operating office said Monday, rebutting parts of a leaked U.S. National Security Agency report that suggested hackers stole information from VR Systems and used it to send phishing messages to local elections officials nationwide.

Ben Martin told Florida election supervisors during a presentation Monday that his company's systems were never breached.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina officials say there's no evidence Russian hackers targeted state or local elections staffers by posing as a voting software supplier.

State elections board spokesman Patrick Gannon said Monday that none of the 21 counties that use software sold by the compromised Florida company received suspected phishing emails. The elections offices searched for efforts to sneak into their networks between the start of 2016 to the present.