This classic tactic is making a comeback and is elegantly simple to execute, yet sufficiently complex enough to keep email scanning solutions from seeing it as malicious.
Spam calls in the US spiked in October, according to Truecaller’s annual Global Spam Report. The report observed that Truecaller customers in the US received 3,115,861 spam calls in ...
We found a discussion on Twitter about this topic and we thought it would be useful to provide to provide the correct technical background related to whitelisting.
A Swiss phishing study involving roughly 15,000 participants in a 15-month experiment produced some interesting results. The study was run by researchers at ETH Zurich, working together ...
A US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data spotlight has found that people in the US lost $148 million to gift-card-related scams in the first nine months of 2021. The spotlight also found ...
When most see cyberattacks as something that is impactful at the organizational level, the head of the National Security Agency sees cyberattacks as being a threat to the entire nation.
The need to balance offering coverage for cyber incidents with maintaining a profit has cyber insurers rethinking how they will approach measuring insured risk and exposure.
Bringing together specialized police units from 20 countries, Operation HAECHI-II targeted those involved in online fraud, romance scams, investment fraud and money laundering.
With the increased interest in and availability of movie and TV streaming services, plenty of new scams are popping up attempting to steal personal details and credit card information.
Shaming employees for falling for phishing attacks is the wrong approach, according to Dr. Karen Renaud, a chancellor’s fellow at the University of Strathclyde. In an article for the Wall ...
KnowBe4 is aware of the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) and has been investigating this issue in-depth. We can confirm that no KnowBe4 products are affected by this at this ...
Researchers at Kaspersky have found that most phishing pages are active for less than one day, with many of them going offline after just a few hours. Most of these short-lived pages were ...
US telecommunications company Cox Communications has disclosed a data breach that exposed some customers’ information, BleepingComputer reports. The company said in a breach notification ...
The holiday season may be closer to "normal" this year, and that means your users will be even more focused on holiday activities - including travel. Cybercriminals will undoubtedly be ...
Scammers are exploiting a real “cyber incident” at a Riverhead New York high school to send out robocalls that claim to be coming from the local police department, RiverheadLOCAL reports.
Researchers at MailGuard have observed a phishing campaign that’s using phony “spam notification” emails that purport to come from Microsoft Office 365. The emails tell recipients that an ...
New shocking data shows how unconcerned victim users are after being notified of a data breach involving their credentials, personal information, and even social media accounts.
Doing one of the best jobs impersonating a website ever seen, this new scam attempts to take those renewing or initially signing up through a believable process that most would fall for.
Partially due to the shift to working remotely, cybercriminals are finding some resemblance of success in getting internal assistance, begging the question of what to do about it.
Researchers at Malwarebytes offer more details on a spear phishing campaign run by a Pakistani threat actor that’s come to be known as “SideCopy.” The campaign was first reported by ...
