Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
Cybercriminals seem to be honing their craft, picking specific attack types, victim demographics, and methods, according to new data from the latest PhishLab’s report.
A Russian cyber-espionage group has developed and has been using one of the most complex backdoors ever spotted on an email server, according to new research published by cyber-security ...
According to the latest from AT&T Cybersecurity, enterprise IT and boardrooms largely see eye-to-eye… and those eyes are watching some very common, yet pervasive, threats.
Sophos has discovered a scary new strain of very sophisticated ransomware called MegaCortex. It was purpose-built to target corporate networks, and once penetrated, the attackers infect ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. So, maybe you're a bad guy who doesn't have fancy code monkeys who can cook up an exploit that effectively converts Google into a phishing ...
Our friend Larry Abrams who runs the bleepingcomputer site had something highly entertaining: "We regularly write about phishing emails at BleepingComputer.com in order to warn our ...
Social media phishing, primarily on Facebook and Instagram, has seen a 74.7 percent increase in the first quarter of 2019. A new report on the current phishing landscape from predictive ...
Staff at St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Brunswick say the church was scammed out of nearly $2 million. The church said a phishing email led it to believe that a construction firm ...
Summary: Researchers at Symantec are tracking a cryptojacking campaign that —for now—seems mostly to affect businesses in China. They're calling the campaign "Beapy," and the worm ...
The use of malware-laden PDF email attachments has spiked in recent months, internet security company SonicWall has found. Over the course of 2018, SonicWall detected 47,000 new attack ...
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - Scott County Schools has announced the district is a victim of a multi-million dollar online CEO fraud scam.
BREAKING NEWS: The upshot: This case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and sets a new precedent. A phished employee sent out 1,300 confidential employee W-2 data.
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the last few months, we have seen a rising trend of the bad guys using legitimate services—mainly file hosting platforms, but also ...
Attackers have proven their ability to adapt to improved security measures, and organizations should never assume they’re safe from phishing emails, says Paul Gillin at SiliconANGLE.
Phishing and Social Engineering scammers are shifting tactics, focusing efforts on low-level employees using a variety of methods as a means to cast a wider net within a targeted ...
With 98% of malicious emails that hit inboxes containing no malware, the evolution and future of the phish lies squarely in the hands of effective social engineering.
While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...
A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...
Russian intelligence services sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts used by Florida election officials in November 2016, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ...
Despite maintaining an improved security posture over last year, 2019 brings additional attacks with a higher price tag, causing the U.K. government to urge organizations to do more.
