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Phishing

Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.

[On-Demand Webinar] How To Phish Like the Bad Guys

Despite all the spectacular news stories about advanced persistent threats and targeted hacks from nation-states, the most common security challenge facing enterprises today continues to ...

SyncCrypt Uses Graphic File to Cloak Ransomware in ZIP Phishing Payload

Emisoft Security researcher xXToffeeXx discovered another new phishing threat adept at bypassing Antivirus using a variation of the game played by PowerPoint PPSX attachment phishing ...

New Study: Phishing Is Still The Top Threat Faced By Organizations

The new 2017 SANS Threat Landscape survey from the well-known research and education specialist finds that security professionals rate phishing at 72 percent, spyware at 50 percent, ...

Cyber-Attacks Soar by a Quarter as Phishing Dominates

Cyber-attacks were up by a quarter in Q2 2017, with a surprising twist: global manufacturing is now the top target. The report from NTT Security also shows that phishing is the most ...

We Love The PhishMe Free Idea!

Yesterday, PhishMe's CEO Rohyt Belani came out with a great new initiative. They have created a "lite" version of their platform — they call it simplified — and they are giving it away ...

How Modern Email Phishing Attacks Have Organizations On The Hook

Israeli anti-phishing vendor IronScales came out with an interesting new report about phishing trends. They looked at more than 8,500 attacks that bypassed spam filters, from more than a ...

How Not To Fall For Phishing As An IT Pro

OK, here is a new spear phishing scheme that attacks your development team. Cyber criminals with IPs resolving to Russia hijacked an extension for Google Chrome and abused their illegal ...

Hackers are targeting hotel Wi-Fi with particularly evil malware and spear phishing

The veteran DarkHotel hacking group is back with a few new tricks up their sleeve. These sophisticated hackers first began targeting high level executives in 2011 with a signature brand ...

New Phishing Templates: OJ Simpson Parole and Chester Bennington Suicide Note

QUICK UPDATE

New Type Of WhatsApp Phishing Attack

Heads-up. There is a new social engineering attack currently being tested in Europe, and that means we will see it in America in the near future.

Second Quarter 2017 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report at least quarterly on the latest top-clicked phishing email subjects so our customers know what the highest-risk ...

Scam Of The Week: Phishing Moves To Smishing

Cybercriminals are increasingly trying to circumvent your spam filters and instead are targeting your users directly through their smartphone with smishing attacks, which are hard to ...

Russians Are Suspects in Phishing Attacks Involving U.S. Nuclear Site

A report from the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security warns of malware attacks targeting mainly nuclear power stations, and energy facilities. The attacks started May this ...

APWG Cybercrime Report: Phishers’ Command of Domain Name System Reaches All-Time High in 2016

Criminalization of DNS for Phishing Advanced Most Every Year Since 2012 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- The APWG's latest study has found that cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, ...

Scam Of The Week: Real Estate Wire Transfer Phishing Fraud

According to the NY Daily News, State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler was in the process of selling her apartment and buying another, when she received an email that seemed like it was ...

Global Cyber Alliance: "Few U.S. Hospitals Secure Their Email Against Phishing"

Shaun Waterman at the quite useful CyberScoop site wrote: "Fewer than one-third of the largest 98 public and private hospitals in the United States secure their email against phishing and ...

July 4th and Current Events Phishing Templates

For KnowBe4 customers, we have some new templates available in Current Events and Holiday: Three July 4th-related templates in the Holiday category Five new Current Events templates ...

Scam Of The Week: DMV Warns Drivers About Traffic Ticket Phishing

Online reporter Doug Olenick at SC Media was the first to point to a press release from the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are ...

Did you know how the word Phishing came to be?

I found this at ComputerWorld: "The word phishing was coined around 1996 by hackers stealing America Online accounts and passwords. By analogy with the sport of angling, these Internet ...

Scam Of The Week: Massive DocuSign Phishing Attacks

DocuSign has admitted they were the victim of a data breach of customer email addresses only that has led to massive phishing attacks which used the exfiltrated DocuSign information. ...


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