Hackers focused on CEO fraud (or Business Email Compromise - BEC) attacks often go to great lengths to hide the fact they have access to your CEO’s mailbox as part of a larger scam.
Focused on compromising social media credentials, scammers trick Instagram users into giving up credentials and other personally identifiable information with convincing phishing emails.
LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers hit Britain’s two main political parties with back-to-back cyberattacks on Tuesday, sources told Reuters, attempting to force political websites offline with a ...
Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Sunday suffered a ransomware attack that took down parts of its network.
Danny Palmer at ZDnet alerted on the following: "An unconventional form of ransomware is being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers – and it appears to have links to ...
Joe in accounting is pretty cyber-savvy. He doesn’t fall for basic phishing emails with masked URLs or phony password reset requests. But what happens when Joe gets an email from a ...
Fake sexual harassment complaints appearing to come from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are the latest baits used by attackers to disseminate TrickBot banking ...
It might not be possible to resist a good con artist, according to award-winning author, journalist, and champion poker player Maria Konnikova. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, ...
81% of charities say they’ve been targeted by a phishing attack this year, according to Ed Macnair, writing for UK Fundraising. Meanwhile, only 37% of charities think their IT and ...
Graham Cluley warned: "It’s been almost 25 years since macro malware first reared its head, and it would be nice to think that the defences Microsoft has built into its Office suite in ...
Here are all of the major items and updates our Technical Content Engineers have added to our knowledge base and KMSAT product in the last couple of months.
Attackers are always looking for new tricks to distribute malware without them being detected by antivirus scanners and secure email gateways. This was illustrated in a new phishing ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Well over a year ago we reported on the rise of a new form of CEO fraud in which malicious actors persuaded unwitting employees working in ...
Agari’s latest Email Fraud & Identity Deception Trends report highlights the growing threat of vendor email compromise (VEC), according to SecurityWeek. This is a variety of business ...
PhishLabs warns that replying to a phishing email, even if you know it’s a scam, can lead to further attacks. Most phishing campaigns are automated and replying to them puts you on a ...
America's Cold War with Russia was fought with the threat of mutually assured destruction using atomic weapons. Being hit with a nuke is very much like being whacked over the head with a ...
According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the number of phishing attacks continued to rise into the autumn of 2019. The total number of phishing sites detected by APWG ...
In order to defend against insider threats, you need an accurate picture of the problem. The CyberWire’s Carole Theriault spoke to a number of industry experts about insider threats and ...
