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Email scammers can’t pass up a tried and true theme that is almost guaranteed to produce results. And with W-2 forms being sent out, it marks the start of this year’s expected campaigns.
New cyber attack data from 2022 is providing insight into what to expect in 2023, including ransomware campaigns.
New data shows users aren’t scrutinizing emails used in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, allowing critical changes in banking details that would impact the victim's organization ...
We received great feedback from many of you after sharing data about completion percentages last month so much that we thought, “What other things can we share from our vast amount of ...
Coinbase describes a targeted social engineering attack that led to the theft of some employee data. The attacker first sent smishing messages to several Coinbase employees, urging them ...
Some common questions we get are “Should I click on an unwanted email’s ’Unsubscribe’ link? Will that lead to more or less unwanted email?”
When it comes to cybersecurity, ransomware is the rockstar of threats. But taking a peek behind the curtain, business email compromise (BEC) causes huge financial losses.
Cloudflare warns that business email compromise (BEC) phishing has assumed a new form: vendor email compromise (VEC). The classic BEC case involves the impersonation of someone within an ...
When should organizations be on guard against social engineering? Always, of course, but there are certain times when they should be especially alert. A study of cyberattacks has found ...
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone is trying to communicate information to another person, but falsely assumes that the other person has the same level of ...
You should use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) when you can to protect valuable data and systems. But most biometrics and MFA are not as strong as touted and much of ...
The Russian-based hacking group Seaborgium is at it again with increased spear phishing attacks targeting US and European countries in the last year.
The Dutch organization Supply Value (a specialist in network optimalisation) together with the website Computable, published an article on their annual research into the top trends in IT ...
Cybersecurity is not just a technological challenge, but increasingly a social and behavioral one.
A survey by Tanium has found that IT security professionals in the UK say that 64% of avoidable cyber attacks are due to human error, which usually involves falling for phishing attacks. ...
There is a lot to learn from Reddit's recent data breach, which was the result of an employee falling for a “sophisticated and highly-targeted” spear phishing attack.
Seemingly repeating the previous year, the FTC’s latest report highlights that nearly 70,000 people reported being the victim of a romance scam last year.
As deepfake technology continues to improve, creators of deepfake technology seek to lock down and safeguard the use of their technology after inappropriate use shows up on the web.
Attackers are abusing a legitimate service called “GeoTargetly” to launch localized phishing attacks, according to Jeremy Fuchs at Avanan. GeoTargetly is meant to be used by advertisers ...
CyberheistNews Vol 13 #07 | February 14th, 2023 [Scam of the Week] The Turkey-Syria Earthquake Just when you think they cannot sink any lower, criminal internet scum is now exploiting the ...
