Researchers at GreatHorn warn that a large-scale phishing campaign is using open redirects to evade email security filters. Open redirects allow attackers to take a URL from a ...
A customer sent me the following observation which is something I have been trying to get across for the last 10 years: "I found this interesting – and potentially disconcerting. This ...
FireEye says a newly characterized cybercriminal gang, FIN11, has been launching widespread email phishing campaigns for the past four years. The group isn’t particularly sophisticated, ...
KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. These are broken down into three different categories: social media related subjects, general subjects, ...
Read how one unnamed company fell victim to a scam that’s been repeated many times over the last few years, but never with such a massive payoff at the end.
Using copyright violation threats or the lure of obtaining a blue checkmark to verify your account, the latest scams easily trick victims out of their social media credentials.
A mix of domain, phishing emails, a dash of social engineering, and a survey are the recipe for a simple and yet effective campaign targeting the financial sector.
2020 has been no match for organizations worldwide, including the significant increase of ransomware attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic. As organizations continue to work in a remote ...
People need to be familiar with the types of malicious attachments used in phishing emails, according to Lawrence Abrams at BleepingComputer. One of the most common methods of installing ...
Cyber threat actors are getting more creative and more skilled at hacking the human. That's why we've created this cybersecurity eSummit to look at evolving attack techniques your end ...
An extremely skilled group of hackers-for-hire dubbed “Bahamut” is using sophisticated social engineering tactics against a range of targets around the world, researchers at BlackBerry ...
Each week during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re going to be sharing in-depth weekly cybersecurity tips from our evangelists to help your users make smarter security decisions and ...
There is a lot to be said for consistency in product names, but when you have dozens of products with multiple versions of each, similar names can get confusing fast. We’re looking at ...
Inexperienced cybercriminals can easily find places to buy phishing kits in the open, on the “surface web” (as opposed to the deep or dark web), according to Jan Kopriva at the SANS ...
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, hosts a massive sales event once a year called Prime Day. Usually set in July, the highly awaited two-day event was postponed until October ...
According to a local news source from Boston, the Town of Franklin recently became the next victim to a phishing attack, costing over $500K.
It may be time for organizations to stop paying the ransom when they sustain a ransomware attack, according to Caleb Barlow, CEO of CynergisTek. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, ...
With ransoms as high as $2 Million, the cybercriminal group behind this new family of ransomware is setting the bar pretty high, all while being the “new kid on the block”.
Phishing remains the top primary attack vector that keeps on giving to cybercriminals, as new data highlights the victories cybercriminals are enjoying at your organization’s expense.
