Phishing Kits Hosted on More than Six Thousand Domains

Akamai’s 2019 State of the Internet / Security Report found that 6,035 domains were being used to host 120 different phishing kits, according to BleepingComputer. The phishing kits ...

November 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads Up] Scam Of The Week: Phishing Attacks Using Better Benefits And Pay Raise Bait

Millions of employees use KnowBe4's Phish Alert Button to report suspect emails, and thousands of organizations share these reports with us. This has become a fascinating threat source, ...

November 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Webroot Threat Researchers Take a Fresh Look at Phishing Tactics

Most people aren’t aware of how sophisticated phishing email templates and websites have become, according to David Dufour from Webroot. Dufour recently told the CyberWire that criminals ...

October 31, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

It's Benefits Enrollment Season Again...And That Means Prime Phishing Season!

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Not content just to make tax season even more miserable than it already is, malicious actors are increasingly maneuvering to capitalize on ...

October 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Vishing, from (not) the Bank

We saw yesterday how phishing affects the financial sector. Here we see another, related trend: impersonation attacks that purport to be from the victim’s bank.

October 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

A Recent Spate Of Spear Phishing Attacks Is Targeting The Financial Industry

Phishing attacks are getting harder to spot, especially as more attackers realize the value of targeted, well-crafted phishing attacks, according to Johannes Ullrich, the dean of research ...

October 28, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attack Targets Humanitarian Organizations

Researchers at Lookout have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including UNICEF and the Red Cross. The infrastructure ...

October 28, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing in Office 365's Pond

Heimdal Security has come across a phishing campaign that uses compromised accounts to target Microsoft users. The attackers use email and social media accounts they’ve already breached ...

October 23, 2019 Perry Carpenter

What Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Can Teach Us About Phishing

One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...

October 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Credential Phishing With a Masked URL

Cofense warns of a phishing campaign going after credentials for the Stripe online payment platform. The attackers are sending emails purporting to be from Stripe Support, telling the ...

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