Video Becomes the Next Big Bait for Social Engineering
Scammers are always looking for new ways to get potential victims to engage. It appears that the latest trend is to leverage our familiarity with watching video to spawn an attack.
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Scammers are always looking for new ways to get potential victims to engage. It appears that the latest trend is to leverage our familiarity with watching video to spawn an attack.
A recent report by security vendor Kaspersky highlights how healthcare organizations are at risk of cyberattack – and how a lack of training is responsible.
Rudy Friederich, a KnowBe4 friend at Marshal Security LLC sent me the following interesting tips related to finding out if you are the victim of Business Email Compromise. He wrote:
Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have been tracking a major phishing campaign that’s using library-themed emails to target more than sixty universities around the ...
CAPE TOWN – African business owners who attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town have flagged cybersecurity as the biggest threat to business.
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You’d better check your email queue for a new email from The Equifax Breach Settlement Administrator that was sent out several days ago to those who previously filed a claim. It will ...
Today’s phishing attacks have evolved way beyond spray-and-pray emails that mass target victims. Instead, the bad guys have carefully researched your organization in order to set the ...
Ethical hackers are especially well-positioned to use their knowledge of attack techniques to educate people, according to Zoë Rose, a white-hat hacker based in the UK. On the CyberWire’s ...
Zak Doffman, contributor at Forbes reported: "There is a cyberattack epidemic hitting businesses around the world, targeting individuals responsible for requesting fund transfers or ...
Scammers frequently impersonate lawyers in fraudulent emails in order to get recipients to take those emails seriously, according to Victoria Hudgins at Legaltech News. Legal threats or ...
FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams —aka CEO Fraud—are continuing to grow every year, with a 100% increase in the identified global ...
Danny Palmer at ZDNet had the scoop: "Social engineering is by far the biggest factor in malicious hacking campaigns, warn researchers – so how can it be stopped?"
BleepingComputer describes a PayPal phishing site that’s delivering a new strain of Nemty ransomware. The attackers used Unicode characters from different alphabets to make their URL look ...
Scammers are using bogus threats of deportation to coerce Chinese students studying in the UK into handing over tens of thousands of dollars, the Guardian reports. The scammers are posing ...
A ransomware infection has left one hospital in a group of 120 resorting to pen and paper as they work to remediate an attack custom-designed to attempt to take down all 120.
A new scammer group out of Nigeria is taking additional steps to verify email addresses are valid before launching BEC campaigns designed to commit fraud.