Social Engineers Earn a First
A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...
Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...
Russian intelligence services sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts used by Florida election officials in November 2016, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ...
Despite maintaining an improved security posture over last year, 2019 brings additional attacks with a higher price tag, causing the U.K. government to urge organizations to do more.
Ohio joins South Carolina and Michigan to create cybersecurity legislation modeled after the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law.
The beginning of 2019 has proven that data breaches in the health industry aren’t going anywhere. And from the intel on the breaches, phishing is playing a predominant role.
With the Game of Thrones (GoT) Season 8 finally airing, bad guys are using a variety of social engineering tactics to trick your end-users.
Armor, a leading global cloud security solutions provider, read the news about a recent cyberattack, where hackers targeted the payroll department of the city of Tallahassee, FL and ...
U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of millions of incidents analyzed during the last year by ...
Ray Shultz at MediaPost's EmailINSIDER wrote about a nasty new way that the bad guys are trying to establish trust: spoofing the return path and received email headers of Barracuda in an ...
Inadvertent sharing, phishing attacks, and ransomware top the list of attack vectors, with teachers, students, and vendors all contributing to the risk of breach.
We are seeing a new type of attack popping up more and more. Bad guys send a phishing attack and steal the credentials of your employee. But they stay under the radar and lurk for a while ...
The treasurer of the city of Ottawa, Marian Simulik, fell for a business email compromise (BEC) scam and sent $100,000 to a scammer, the city’s auditor general revealed this week. Simulik ...
Payment fraud continues to soar, as a record 82 percent of organizations reported incidents in 2018, according to the 2019 AFP Payments Fraud & Control Survey, underwritten by J.P. ...
The latest data from 1,200 IT organizations shows organizations seeing attacks as inevitable and, for some industries, successful compromise as even more a given.
Phishing kits are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection and make their scams more convincing, according to Prakhar Shrotriya at Zscaler.
These latest attacks are designed to proxy login requests that incorporate SMS-based authentication as a way to seamlessly bypass 2FA protection without being noticed.
A new survey of professionals in industries using industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) finds 90 percent of respondents say their environment has been damaged ...
With Tax Day only a few days away, cybercriminals are trying to take advantage of tax season through widespread phishing campaigns that aim to trick people into providing sensitive ...
Scammers are capitalizing on the hype for March Madness with a bevy of malicious streaming sites and phishing scams, according to Lindsey O’Donnell at Threatpost. Researchers at Zscaler ...
Game of Thrones is the top TV show used to deliver malware-infected pirated content, researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found. Threatpost says the researchers saw nearly 21,000 users ...