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 ...
Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
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 ...
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. ...
Gadi Evron is the Founder and CEO at IT security company Cymmetrica. He wrote a long-ish post on hackernoon (which is powered by Medium). I'm giving you the upshot, but first, what is ...
KnowBe4 gets thousands of phishing attacks reported weekly through our free Phish Alert Button, and we pick the 10 most tricky ones, defang them, and put these into a phishing campaign ...
Think Before You Click On Random Google Doc Invitation Links A very convincing Google Docs phishing scheme raced through the internet yesterday, looking like it came from someone you ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Cybercriminals held a Providence law firm hostage for months by encrypting its files and demanding $25,000 in ransom paid in Bitcoin to restore access, according to a ...
US military contractor Northrop Grumman notified their employees that hackers managed to gain access to their W-2 tax records. As The Register just reported, the makers of America’s ...
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — . The City of Newark’s computer system has been disabled by hackers demanding thousands in ransom money, according to a published report. Hackers are demanding ...
New York, April 25, 2017 - Beazley, a pioneer in cyber and data breach response insurance, today released its Beazley Breach Insights – April 2017 findings based on its response to client ...
The French presidential election has been hit with a case of déjà vu. Emmanuel Macron's campaign said its staff received phishing emails meant to steal their passwords. Trend Micro said ...
And here are this week's Top 10 "In The Wild" phishing attacks that we received from our customers by employees clicking the Phish Alert Button and sending the email to us for analysis. ...
Locky ransomware reappeared with a vengeance Friday, this time not using Office documents combined with social engineering to have the user enable macros, but with a PDF that has a Word ...
Low-life scum is exploiting the deaths of famous people, such as the suicide yesterday of former N.E. Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.
KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report frequently on the top-clicked phishing topics so that our customers know what the highest-risk phishing templates ...
Steve Ragan at CSO wrote: "Scammers are using Twitter as a vehicle to target people looking for customer support or asking general questions. They interject themselves into legitimate ...
A new Pew Research Center survey titled "What the Public Knows about Cybersecurity." tallied responses from 1,055 adults last year about their understanding of concepts important to ...
Kevin Mitnick, our Chief Hacking Officer forwarded this great poster to me he found on Twitter today: "Which phishing emails fooled the most people?" Share it with your users!
Our friends at Barracuda run their Email Threat Scanner over hundreds of thousands of customer mailboxes and discovered a highly effective phishing attack that tricks a whopping 90% of ...
Atlanta-based SecureWorks has a Counter Threat Unit which has been closely watching the Russian hacker gang APT28 over the last few years and released brand new research. This group of ...
4/28/2017 UPDATE: Facebook and Google confirmed as victims of $100M phishing scam. Story at The Verge. In an update on an earlier post of April 2016, more detail came known about this ...