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Phishing

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

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April 17, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Over 80% of All Phishing Attacks Targeted U.S. Organizations

U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of millions of incidents analyzed during the last year by ...

April 16, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attack Spoofs Email Security Firm

Ray Shultz at MediaPost's EmailINSIDER wrote about a nasty new way that the bad guys are trying to establish trust: spoofing the return path and received email headers of Barracuda in an ...

April 16, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Staff and Students Put School Districts at the Greatest Risk of Cyber Attack

Inadvertent sharing, phishing attacks, and ransomware top the list of attack vectors, with teachers, students, and vendors all contributing to the risk of breach.

April 10, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

What's The Best Name? ThreadJacking or Man-in-the-Inbox Attacks?

We are seeing a new type of attack popping up more and more. Bad guys send a phishing attack and steal the credentials of your employee. But they stay under the radar and lurk for a while ...

April 10, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Ottawa City Treasurer sends $128,000 to fraudsters in email phishing scam

The treasurer of the city of Ottawa, Marian Simulik, fell for a business email compromise (BEC) scam and sent $100,000 to a scammer, the city’s auditor general revealed this week. Simulik ...

April 10, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] Survey Finds 82% Of You Are Impacted By Payment Fraud

Payment fraud continues to soar, as a record 82 percent of organizations reported incidents in 2018, according to the 2019 AFP Payments Fraud & Control Survey, underwritten by J.P. ...

April 10, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations Face a 63% Likelihood of Being the Victim of Successful Cyberattack in Next 12 Months

The latest data from 1,200 IT organizations shows organizations seeing attacks as inevitable and, for some industries, successful compromise as even more a given.

April 8, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

The Latest in Phishing Tackle

Phishing kits are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection and make their scams more convincing, according to Prakhar Shrotriya at Zscaler.

April 8, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

New Phishing Attacks Make 2FA Useless

These latest attacks are designed to proxy login requests that incorporate SMS-based authentication as a way to seamlessly bypass 2FA protection without being noticed.

April 6, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

90 Percent Of Critical Infrastructure Hit By Cyberattacks

A new survey of professionals in industries using industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) finds 90 percent of respondents say their environment has been damaged ...

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