Financial phishing accounts for over 50% of all phishing attacks for the first time

In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 per cent were attempts to visit a ...

February 28, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations Are Failing To Learn From Phishing And Ransomware Attacks

Warwick Ashford, security editor at ComputerWeekly had an interesting observation after reading CyberArk's latest cyber threat report: "Organisations are failing to learn from cyber ...

February 23, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Which phishing messages have a near 100% click rate?

Zeljika at HelpnetSecurity had a great summary of Wombat's latest State of the Phish report: "Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

PHISHING SCHEMES NET HACKERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM FORTUNE 500

IBM has uncovered sophisticated CEO Fraud campaigns—aka Business Email Compromise—which are successfully targeting Fortune 500 companies. On Wednesday, researchers from IBM's X-Force ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Cryptojacking Scripts And Phishing Pages Could Soon Invade Your Word Documents

Let's open that doc file and watch the Matrix again. Catalin Cimpanu at Bleepingcomputer had the scoop on this concerning news: "Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Edward Snowden returns to U.S.! Oops, nope, it's a phishing scam

Bradley Barth at SCMedia nailed it when he wrote: "No, NSA whistleblower and U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden did not just purchase a 2 terabyte storage plan for iCloud, nor has he moved back ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Trusted Sites Often Deliver Phishing Attacks: Study

Ray Schultz at MediaPost had a great summary of some troublesome news: "Some of the world’s most popular websites are also the most dangerous when in comes to phishing attacks, according ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

New Multi-Stage Word Phishing Attack Infects Users Without Using Macros

Spam distributors are using a new technique to infect users with malware, and while this phishing attack relies on having users open Word documents, it does not involve social engineering ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Lazarus Hacking Group back with new phishing campaign targeting banks and bitcoin users

The North Korean Lazarus Hacking Group, suspected to be behind the WannaCry ransomware attack last year, has returned with a new crime spree, this time targeting financial institutions ...

February 11, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Attains SOC 2 Type I Compliance For The Hosted Phishing And Training Product Offerings

KnowBe4, Inc, the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, this week announced it has successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ...

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Financial phishing accounts for over 50% of all phishing attacks for the first time

Organizations Are Failing To Learn From Phishing And Ransomware Attacks

Which phishing messages have a near 100% click rate?

PHISHING SCHEMES NET HACKERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM FORTUNE 500

Cryptojacking Scripts And Phishing Pages Could Soon Invade Your Word Documents

Edward Snowden returns to U.S.! Oops, nope, it's a phishing scam

Trusted Sites Often Deliver Phishing Attacks: Study

New Multi-Stage Word Phishing Attack Infects Users Without Using Macros

Lazarus Hacking Group back with new phishing campaign targeting banks and bitcoin users

KnowBe4 Attains SOC 2 Type I Compliance For The Hosted Phishing And Training Product Offerings

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