Phishing and pretexting represent 93% of social attack-based breaches
A good article in Forbes that takes another dive into the new 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
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Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
A good article in Forbes that takes another dive into the new 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
Phishers have found a way of moving the malicious URLs in their emails past Office 365's protections. The security company Avanan says they've observed criminals using a tag in the HTML ...
Bleepingcomputer reported: "Ransomware has infected the servers of the Riverside Fire and Police department for the second time in a month. The first ransomware infection took place on ...
Gmail's new confidential mode lets its users create "expiration dates" for emails, or require recipients to provide an SMS passcode. (And Google also claims they've removed the option to ...
Rosie Murray West at the Financial Times reported: "Taxpayers are being targeted by a new wave of phishing scams linked to the financial calendar, HM Revenue & Customs has warned. ...
The word "phishing" can't be found in Chaucer or Shakespeare. It is a homophone of "fishing". But why "ph" instead of "f"? Many English words of Greek origin transliterate "φ" (phi) as ...
OK, here is something really scary. KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick now and then calls me with some chilling news. This time, Kuba Gretzky, a white hat hacker friend of ...
Attackers know that companies are sending a lot of emails to customers about GDPR—and that makes them prime opportunity for phishing attacks. With the looming GDPR May 25 deadline almost ...
This is the second year we've published quarterly results of the most-clicked phishing email subjects across a few categories. We separate the data into subjects related to social media ...
Catalin Cimpanu at Bleepingcomputer reported: "Chinese cyber spies are evolving their tactics, focusing on IT staffers, relying more and more on spear phishing instead of malware, and ...
The most common infection vectors are still email phishing and drive-by downloads according to the latest threat report from AI security specialist Cylance. The report provides a ...
Daniel R. Stoller at Bloomberg Law had an excellent observation about the risks of phishing related to general crime policies. Here is a short excerpt and the whole article is warmly ...
Brad Haan sent me this riot cartoon:
Why is credentials phishing moving from consumers to the enterprise, just like ransomware has done in the last 2 years? The answer might surprise you. Elliot Volkman at the PhishLabs ...
Rob Wright at SearchSecurity wrote: "Proofpoint research shows that while phishing attacks now require victims to take more steps, the success rate for such attacks hasn't declined and ...
Attorneys Zuckerman Spaeder noted on JDSUPRA: "When employers are caught off guard, they can face not only the loss of their own assets, but also liability to their employees. For ...
The notorious Necurs botnet is one of the oldest and largest spam and phishing delivery systems in existence. It controls millions of machines that the criminal botmasters use to send ...
Researchers at Check Point and CyberInt, have discovered a new generation of phishing kit that is readily available on the Dark Web. The new kit, compiled and offered by a criminal whose ...
“Double kill” is a bragging term from the world of violent video gaming – it means you finished off two assailants with a single shot. In the world of cybercrime, it’s the name given by ...
Organizations have been victimized by a wide range of threats and exploits, most notably phishing attacks that have penetrated corporate defenses, targeted email attacks launched from ...
