Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
I am reading and hearing about a ton of job scams these days. So many, I wondered how anyone could get a real job or employee, especially in these days of often full-time, work-from-home ...
Under the guise of determining applicant eligibility for a U.S. federal government job, this latest phishing attack plants the seed for a future attack on the victim organization.
The recent arrest demonstrates how very small and unsophisticated a cybercriminal team can be to launch a very successful phishing campaign that takes victims for millions.
INKY has published a report on the use of small business grants as phishing lures. Scammers are impersonating the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to distribute phony grant ...
New insight from the SANS Institute surveying 300 ethical hackers sheds some light on how they perceive your security stance – and how easy it is for them to break in despite your efforts.
Occasionally you will hear people or organizations claiming that they are on the verge of eliminating all social engineering from reaching end-users. Could it be true? Could it happen one ...
Check Point Software is one of the world's best-known and largest infosec companies. In September 2021 they acquired email security company Avanan and recently they updated Check Point's ...
Here's the Top 5 Do’s and Don'ts for your phishing simulation exercises.
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued an alert warning of a significant rise in text message phishing scams (smishing) impersonating the IRS since the beginning of the year.
The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany's federal criminal police, raided three homes on Thursday, September 29th, in the course of an investigation of a cyber criminal operation the BKA ...
Setting a record for both highest count and share in volume with other types of phishing scams, response-based attacks are at their highest since 2020 and are continuing to grow.
American Airlines has disclosed that an attacker used phishing attacks to breach the company’s systems, BleepingComputer reports.
Despite the pandemic being largely considered over, a recent Private Industry Notification focused on the Healthcare industry indicates that organizations should remain vigilant.
A phishing campaign is impersonating UK energy regulator Ofgem, according to Action Fraud, the UK’s cybercrime reporting centre.
A convict serving twenty-five years in South Carolina for voluntary manslaughter and attempted armed robbery, Darnell Kahn, has now also been convicted in a US court on Federal sextortion ...
GitHub has issued an alert warning of a phishing campaign targeting users by impersonating the popular DevOps tool CircleCI, BleepingComputer reports. The phishing emails inform users ...
A survey by the Spanish GetApp software rating site has found that the number of organizations using phishing simulations has risen from 30% in 2019 to 70% in 2022. Despite this positive ...
New quarterly data from the Anti-Phishing Working Group shows unprecedented phishing activity with increases in BEC, use of social media, vishing, and smishing.
Everyone should use multifactor authentication (MFA), where they can, to protect valuable information. Everyone!
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert warning of an increase in phishing and other social engineering attacks against healthcare payment processors.
