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Phishing With Deepfakes for HK$200 Million

My hacker story occurred not too long ago at the Hong Kong office of an undisclosed multinational corporation. The hackers pulled off a first-of-its-kind scam that leveraged a phishing ...

New Research Shows An Alarming Trend of Phishing Attacks Doubling For US and European Organizations

Cybercriminals never sleep, and their aim keeps getting better. According to new research from Abnormal Security, phishing attacks targeting organizations in Europe shot up by a ...

Beware: Major AI Chatbots Now Intentionally Spreading Election Disinformation

Just when you thought the disinformation landscape couldn't get any worse, a new report from Democracy Reporting International in Europe reveals that popular AI chatbots have started ...

Sinister "More_eggs" Malware Cracks Into Companies by Targeting Hiring Managers

Job seekers, beware - cybercriminals have a nasty new way to slide their malicious code on corporate networks. Researchers have uncovered a devious phishing campaign that's distributing ...

DarkGate Malware Being Spread Via Excel Docs Attached To Phishing Emails

A phishing campaign is spreading the DarkGate malware using new techniques to evade security filters, according to researchers at Cisco Talos.

New HR-Themed Credential Harvesting Phishing Attack Uses Legitimate Signature Platform Yousign

A new phishing campaign is exploiting the eSignature platform Yousign.

Bruce Schneier: "AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams"

Wow. It does not happen often that the godfather of infosec comes out this strong about phishing risks. He co-published new research in the Harvard Business Review May 30, 2024, which in ...

Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing

Social engineering and phishing are not just IT buzzwords; they are potent threats capable of devastating damage to your organization.

[New Feature] Find Out if They've Got a Bad Reputation in Record Time with PhishER Plus Threat Intel

The PhishER Plus platform just got smarter with the addition of the new PhishER Plus Threat Intel feature that integrates web reputation data into the PhishER Plus console.

Nearly Three-Quarters of Organizations Were the Target of Attempted Business Email Compromise Attacks

New data highlights just how dangerous Business Email Compromise attacks are.