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Researchers at PIXM have uncovered a major Facebook Messenger phishing scam that’s “potentially impacted hundreds of millions of Facebook users.” More than eight million people have ...
Researchers at KELA warn that ransomware gangs are increasingly refraining from mentioning their victims’ names after the initial attack, giving the victims a chance to pay up before the ...
In KnowBe4’s new Password Policy ebook, What Your Password Policy Should Be, we recommend that all users use a password manager to create and use perfectly random passwords. A perfectly ...
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its partners have issued a joint alert on Karakurt, a data theft extortion group that harasses victims’ employees, ...
A new survey of executives sheds light on how well organizations fared with cyberattacks in the last 12 month as well as what attack vectors are going to increase future breaches.
A new phishing method uses a decades-old special URL format to take advantage of how security solutions and email clients interpret URLs, tricking victims into clicking.
The world’s five leading cybersecurity authorities have again issued a joint report about an increase in malicious cyber activity targeting managed service providers they expect to ...
New data from security vendor Sophos shows that while the presence of cyber insurance coverage has increased, it’s the experiencing of attacks that’s driving the need.
Reaching more than 1 million attacks in a single quarter for the first time, new data on phishing attacks in Q1 of 2022 show an emphasis on impersonation and credential theft.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned that people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto to scams since the beginning of 2021. The vast majority of these losses were ...
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Bitdefender warns that Microsoft Office applications are vulnerable to phishing tactics that exploit international domain names (IDNs). Affected applications include Outlook, Word, Excel, ...
A growing number of organizations worldwide are utilizing cryptocurrency for a host of investment, operational, and transactional purposes. Seemingly overnight, technologies like ...
KnowBe4 just released its official guidance and recommendations regarding password policy. It has been a project in the works for many months now, but we wanted to make sure we got it ...
KnowBe4 just released its first e-book covering password attacks, defenses and what your password policy should be. Here is a summary of its recommendations:
Check out the 26 new pieces of training content added in April, alongside the always fresh content update highlights and new features.
A smishing campaign is impersonating the UK-based delivery company Evri with text messages informing recipients that their package couldn’t be delivered, according to Paul Ducklin at ...
The India-aligned APT SideWinder is using a variety of social engineering techniques to target Pakistani government and military entities, according to researchers at Group-IB. The threat ...
Part of a six-month attack, email accounts on the NHS’ Microsoft 365 instance were compromised, resulting in over 1,100 targeted email attacks used to obtain more credentials.
