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Customer Care Numbers as Phishbait

Researchers at CloudSEK have published a report looking at fraudulent customer service phone numbers in India. The researchers found around 20,000 of these phone numbers targeting users ...

[Eye Opener] Businessweek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About

This morning, Bloomberg News pointed at a brand new article at BusinessWeek, one of their media properties. This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when ...

Remote Workers Significantly Increase the Cost of Remediating Email-Based Cyberattacks as Costs Average $1 Million

With the average cost of the most expensive successful email attack at over $1 million, it’s necessary to begin to zero in on where the material sources of risk exist to keep these ...

NameCheap’s SendGrid Email Account Compromised, Used to Send Phishing Emails

Since phishing attacks need legitimacy to increase their deliverability, this latest twist shows how phishing scammers and hackers are working together to ensure phishing attacks continue.

Business Email Compromise Gang Gets Jail Time for Stealing Millions

An international cybercriminal operation responsible for millions of dollars in business email compromise (BEC) scams has finally been dismantled.

Blind Eagle Goes Phishing

BlackBerry has published a report on a threat actor, Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, which has been operating against targets in Ecuador and Colombia since at least 2019. Its most ...

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #09 [Eye Opener] Should You Click on Unsubscribe?

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #09 | February 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] Should You Click on Unsubscribe? By Roger A. Grimes. Some common questions we get are "Should I click on an unwanted email's ...

GLBA and Other Regulations Wake Up to the Importance of Security Awareness Training With  June 9, 2023 Deadline

Most computer security practitioners have understood for many years the importance of having an aggressive security awareness training program. As social engineering is involved in 70% to ...

Thousands of NPM Packages Used to Spread Phishing Links

Researchers at Checkmarx warn that attackers uploaded more than 15,000 packages to NPM, the open-source repository for JavaScript packages, to distribute phishing links. The packages ...

Malware Report: The Number of Unique Phishing Emails in Q4 Rose by 36%

With nearly 280 million phishing emails detected by just one vendor, and the increase in the number of unique emails, organizations have a lot to be worried about in 2023.