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

Half of Travel-Themed Spam Emails Are Scams

Researchers at Bitdefender have found that half of all travel-themed spam emails contain scams.
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The First Half of 2024 Results in More Than 1 Billion Data Breach Victims

New data shows that cyber attacks have resulted in double the number of data breaches in 2024 than throughout all of 2023.
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New Phishing Kit Uses Voice Call Generator to Impersonate Spanish Banks

A new cybercriminal group is selling “a sophisticated AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform” that targets 36 Spanish banks, according to researchers at Group-IB.
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Scammers Exploit Interest in Generative AI Tools

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42 are tracking phishing attacks exploiting interest in generative AI tools. The researchers observed spikes in suspicious domain registrations ...
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QR Code Phishing is Still on the Rise. The SEG is Dead.

Organizations need to be aware of the threat posed by QR code phishing (quishing), according to researchers at Trend Micro.
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New Phishing Scam Leverages Chat To Add Credibility And Ensure Success

A new phishing scam is leveraging trusted aspects of ecommerce to make their scams look legitimate.
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Phishing Campaigns Continue To Exploit CrowdStrike Outage

As expected, threat actors are taking advantage of the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last Friday, SC Media reports.
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Russian Super-Threat Group Fin7 Comes Back from the Dead

Declared “dead” by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2023, the Russian cyber crime group Fin7 is impersonating some of the top global brands.
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Phishing Campaigns Abuse Cloud Platforms to Target Latin America

Several threat actors are abusing legitimate cloud services to launch phishing attacks against users in Latin America, according to Google’s latest Threat Horizons Report.
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Phishing Attacks Will Likely Follow Last Week’s Global IT Outage

Organizations should expect to see phishing attacks exploiting the global IT outage that occurred last Friday, the Business Post reports.
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CrowdStrike Phishing Attacks Appear in Record Time

I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. But first: Our ...
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CISA’s Red Team Exercise Shows Value of Phishing, but Misses the Best Recommendation

Phishing is used to completely compromise the victim’s environment after other repeated methods failed.
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Cyber Threats Targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics

Our friends at the CyberWire reported: "ZeroFox and Fortinet have both published reports on threats facing the 2024 Olympics in Paris. ZeroFox says the primary cybersecurity threat will ...
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IRS Warns of Phishing Attacks Targeting Car Dealerships

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued an advisory warning of phishing campaigns targeting car dealerships. The IRS says car dealers should be on the lookout for targeted ...
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Phishing Continues to Be the Primary Entry to Ransomware Attacks

Phishing remains a top initial access vector for ransomware actors, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The threat actors often use phishing to steal legitimate credentials so they ...
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[Warn Your Users] High Scam Risk After Failed Trump Assassination

Pictures of Donald Trump rushed from a campaign stage, his cheek brushed with blood from an assassination attempt, are an unsettling shock.
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Phishing Attacks Against State and Local Governments Are Surging

Researchers at Abnormal Security have observed a 360% increase in phishing attacks against state and local government entities over the past year.
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Russian Spear Phishing Campaigns Target NATO Entities

Researchers at Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) warn that Russian government threat actors continue to target NATO member countries with spear phishing attacks. APT29 in particular has ...
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From Policy to Practice in Security Culture: What Security Frameworks Recommend

Recently I had to prepare for a governance, risk and compliance conference. I promptly realized that although I used to be quite immersed in this field as an ISO 27k implementation ...
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Dodgy New Phishing Platform Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts at Financial Firms

Analysis of the latest phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform ONNX Store highlights just how successful these platforms can be.
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