Understanding social engineering attacks is the key to thwarting them, according to Juan Badell and Russell Petrich, content designers for Sophos’s phishing simulation service. Badell and ...
Researchers at Zix have observed phishing emails sent from legitimate but compromised university email accounts, impersonating the university’s IT department. The emails notified users ...
Facebook’s security team has taken action against a phishing operation run by APT32 (also known as OceanLotus), a threat actor associated with the Vietnamese government. Facebook says the ...
Did you see our new "tip of the iceberg" security doc? Send this Public Service Announcement to your end-users. It is a great piece that was created based on the focus group feedback - ...
According to the Press Republican, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles warned New Yorkers last Friday of ongoing SMS phishing (aka smishing) attack.
According to research released Thursday by Code42, 85% of employees are more likely to leak files today than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cybercriminals are still using Zoom and other conferencing platforms as phishbait, according to Zlati Meyer at Fast Company. This phishing theme isn’t likely to let up any time soon, so ...
A new report from the Identity Theft Research Center discusses which cybersecurity attacks will be most impactful next year as part of the ITRC’s 2021 predictions.
A new spear phishing campaign appearing to come from a microsoft.com email address is targeting organizations in critical industries that use Office 365 for email to steal credentials.
It's all over the press. A wide swath of U.S. Government orgs were hacked by the Russians. They accessed those networks by slipping malware into a SolarWinds software update, according to ...
As three members of the cybercriminal group TMT were recently arrested, details emerge around the breadth and depth of their attacks from a year-long Interpol investigation.
With in-person shopping still considered “high risk”, online shopping with home delivery and the need to meet delivery deadlines creates the perfect scenario for scammers.
Since August of this year, some ransomware attacks are being followed up by phone calls to increase pressure, promote the attack internally, and increase the chances of getting paid.
Voicemail scams are on the rise, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. These scams are a form of voice phishing (“vishing”) in which scammers churn out automated phone calls and ...
Organizations need to be on the lookout for GDPR-themed phishing lures, according to Mike Puglia, Chief Product Officer at Kaseya. In an article for ITProPortal, Puglia explains that GDPR ...
…you’re sending out emails like the below to all staff at 8 in the morning.
The US elections have come and gone, but people should still be on the lookout for election-themed phishbait, according to Roger Kay at Inky. Emotions are still running high in the US, ...
Researchers at IBM’s X-Force have identified a phishing campaign targeting the COVID-19 vaccine “cold chain” (the part of the supply chain focused on “the safe preservation of vaccines in ...
