Phishing Remains Top Form of Cybersecurity Breach in 2021
Over half of organizations say they’ve experienced a cybersecurity breach caused by phishing in the last 12 months, dwarfing the second-place breach cause (malware) by almost 30%.
Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
Over half of organizations say they’ve experienced a cybersecurity breach caused by phishing in the last 12 months, dwarfing the second-place breach cause (malware) by almost 30%.
This classic tactic is making a comeback and is elegantly simple to execute, yet sufficiently complex enough to keep email scanning solutions from seeing it as malicious.
A Swiss phishing study involving roughly 15,000 participants in a 15-month experiment produced some interesting results. The study was run by researchers at ETH Zurich, working together ...
Shaming employees for falling for phishing attacks is the wrong approach, according to Dr. Karen Renaud, a chancellor’s fellow at the University of Strathclyde. In an article for the Wall ...
Researchers at Kaspersky have found that most phishing pages are active for less than one day, with many of them going offline after just a few hours. Most of these short-lived pages were ...
Researchers at MailGuard have observed a phishing campaign that’s using phony “spam notification” emails that purport to come from Microsoft Office 365. The emails tell recipients that an ...
Researchers at Avanan have spotted a new phishing campaign that’s impersonating DHL with phony shipping notifications. The emails inform the recipients that they need to update their ...
Bleepingcomputer had the scoop. Phishing actors have quickly started to exploit the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant and now use it as a lure in their malicious email campaigns. ...
This rudimentary form of phishing contains no malicious links or attachments but serves a very important purpose for cybercriminals and scammers looking to better target victims.
Researchers at Egress observed a massive increase in phishing kits in the run-up to Black Friday, particularly those impersonating Amazon.
New data shows the business of phishing is moving “up and to the right” in nearly every way measurable, indicating a serious problem as threat actors continue to see growing success.
The need for increased mobile security in the Energy sector has become evident with new data highlighting why these phishing attacks are occurring and effective ways to stop them.
A state-sponsored threat actor is sending spear phishing emails to North Korean defectors and also to journalists who cover matters related to North Korea, according to researchers at ...
IKEA has been working to contain a continuing phishing campaign that’s afflicting the furniture and houseware chain’s internal email system. BleepingComputer describes it as a ...
New data shows Phishing, Vishing, Social Media attacks, and Microsoft 365 credential attacks are all on the rise as more users are demonstrating savviness around identifying malicious ...
New phishing attacks in the form of impersonated Amazon order confirmation emails cause potential victims to make phone calls and give up credit card details.
Scammers are impersonating the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with spoofed phone calls and other communications that attempt to steal money and personal information from ...
Phishing emails are targeting large TikTok accounts with phony copyright warnings or offers for account verification, according to researchers at Abnormal Security.
Researchers at Check Point have observed a record number of malicious phishing shopping websites that have been set up over the past two months. The researchers assume these sites were ...
Researchers at Avanan have spotted phishing emails that use a font size of one to fool email security scanners. The emails appear to be password expiration notifications from Microsoft ...