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Phishing

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

More Targeted Phishing Attacks Are Coming!

I have been in the cybersecurity business for 34 years. I am not an innately brilliant, but one of the things I seem to do well is to spot trends as they happen early in their cycle. It ...

Low-Grade Ways of Bypassing Email Scanners

Cybercriminals are replacing common words in phishing scams with synonyms in order to bypass security filters, according to researchers at Avanan. For example, one phishing lure contained ...

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center Marks Its 6 Millionth Complaint as Pace Accelerates

The rate at which cyberattacks are increasing are being noticed by both their victims and the FBI, who are seeing more people affected by online crimes and scams.

Credential Stuffing the Financial Services Sector

Credential stuffing in the financial services industry has risen significantly over the past year, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security report. Credential ...

Transparent Tribe Uses Spoofed Domains in Social Engineering Attacks

Researchers at Cisco Talos warn that the threat actor known as “Transparent Tribe” (also known as APT36 and Mythic Leopard) is using spoofed websites and malicious documents to deliver ...

[NEW PhishER Feature] Flip the Script on Phishing Emails with PhishFlip

We are excited to announce the availability of PhishFlip™ as part of the PhishER product to all PhishER customers.

FBI Finds Phishing Sites Abusing Search Results and Ads to Steal Banking Credentials

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a private industry notification (PIN) warning that cybercriminals are using search engine ads and search results to spread phishing ...

New QuickBooks-Themed Phishing Attack Seeks to Infect Victims with Dridex Malware

Purporting to be invoices and payment reminders, this new campaign targets users of the popular accounting software to install the banking trojan on its victims endpoints.

Phishing Scammers Remove ‘External Sender’ Email Warnings Impersonating Internal Users

With little more than some CSS and HTML coding, a security researcher demonstrates how easy it is to eliminate security warnings placed on email messages by security products.

Your Organization Needs to Take Security Awareness Training More Seriously

Your organization needs to take security awareness training (SAT) more seriously. I mean truly serious, really serious, and not relegated to some quasi-, semi-serious status that the vast ...