BEC Scams Have Caused $55 Billion in Losses Over the Past Ten Years

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have caused more than $55 billion in losses between 2013 and 2023, according to an advisory from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

September 16, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Authorized Push Payment Fraud Responsible for Over Half of U.K. Frauds and Scams

Research from The Financial Ombudsman Service, a U.K. based organization dedicated to helping citizens with free financial advice, has found an increase in Authorized Pushed Payment (APP) ...

September 13, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Attackers Using HTTP Response Headers to Redirect Victims to Phishing Pages

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 warn that attackers are using refresh entries in HTTP response headers to automatically redirect users to phishing pages without user ...

September 11, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Your Lawyers Are Increasingly Targeted by Phishing Attacks, Ransomware

Researchers at Bitdefender warn that law firms are high-value targets for ransomware gangs and other criminal threat actors. Attackers frequently use phishing to gain initial access to an ...

September 11, 2024 Anna Collard

Forget the Talent Gap – It’s an Experience Gap

South Africa’s cybersecurity workforce shortage mirrors global trends, but also faces local factors like underinvestment in basic education, underserved communities, digital literacy gaps ...

September 11, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Losses From Investment Scams have Increased Six-Fold Since 2021

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has observed a six-fold increase in losses from investment scams over the past three years. The BBB has received more than 4,000 reports of investment ...

September 9, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Election-Themed Scams Are on the Rise

Researchers at Malwarebytes warn of a surge in election-themed scams ahead of November’s presidential election in the US. These attacks can be expected to increase as the election grows ...

September 9, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Use of Malicious Links Surges by 133% in Q1, Setting the Tone for the First Half of 2024

Threat actors are opting for malicious links over attachments in email-based attacks because it gives them a critical advantage that many solutions can’t address.

September 5, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Manufacturing Sector Is the Latest Target of Advanced Credential Harvesting Attacks

A new attack runs slow and steady, focused on compromising large manufacturing companies using contextual social engineering to trick victims into giving up credentials.

September 5, 2024 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing is Still the Top Initial Access Vector

Phishing remains a top initial access vector for threat actors, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. Phishing and other social engineering tactics can bypass security technologies by ...

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