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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Threat Actors Increasingly Exploit Deepfakes for Social Engineering

The availability of deepfake technology has given threat actors a valuable tool for social engineering attacks, according to researchers at BlackBerry.

Organizations in the Middle East Targeted By Malware Impersonating Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN

A social engineering campaign is targeting entities in the Middle East using malware that impersonates Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN, according to researchers at Trend Micro.