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Beware of Fake Forwarded Phishes

There are many specific, heightened challenges of spear phishing emails coming from compromised, trusted third parties. Trusted third-party phishing emails usually come from the ...

Crowdstrike: "More Cyberattacks in the First Half of 2020 Than in All of 2019"

According to a recent study conducted by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, recent threat activity throughout its customers’ networks has shown more intrusion attempts within the first half ...

When Phishing And Disinformation Meet

The Insider reported that QAnon is co-opting a USPS phishing scam, and claim the Vishing text messages are linked to human trafficking. "A viral [text] phishing scheme is targeting people ...

How to Become a Harder Target From Malicious Threat Actors

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an advisory regarding threat actors associated with China’s Ministry of State ...

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #38 [Heads Up] My Name Is Being Used in Criminal Identity Theft Attacks at the Moment

Security Awareness Advocate Kai Roer Discusses the 2020 Security Culture Report

Our security awareness advocate Kai Roer recently did an interview with Cybercrime Magazine. Kai discusses the history of CLTRe (now KnowBe4 Research) and his background on security ...

High-Profile Caper Spawns Phishing Campaign

A phishing campaign is using the recent Twitter hack as phishbait, HackRead reports. In mid-July, hackers used social engineering against Twitter employees to gain access to more than a ...

Funds Transfer Fraud Has Increased 35% Since the Onset of COVID-19

With reported losses from thousands of dollars to well over $1 million, funds transfer fraud represents 27% of cyber insurance claims in 2020.

Business Email Compromise attacks increase 67% Leading to Fraud, Ransomware, and Data Breaches

Involved in 60% of cybersecurity insurance claims, Business Email Compromise (BEC) is growing in interest by cybercriminals as the initial malicious action as part of a larger attack.

CISA’s Advice on Countering Phishing

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an advisory on best practices to thwart email-based phishing attacks. The ...