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Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.

Reuters: 'State-backed hackers targeting coronavirus responders'

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government-backed hackers are attacking healthcare and research institutions in an effort to steal valuable information about efforts to contain the new ...

PerSwaysion: Convincing Executives to Act Against Their Own Interest

Researchers at Group-IB have discovered a sophisticated spear phishing campaign that’s targeted executives at more than 150 companies around the world since mid-2019. The researchers have ...

GitHub is the Latest Target of Social Engineering Phishing Attacks

Using simple alert-style email notices, scammers look to steal credentials to gain access to development code, intellectual property, and project details.

Half of all Breaches Start with Phishing and Social Engineering

New data shows successful attacks on internal networks, cloud environments, and POS systems all are very susceptible to this common attack vector.

Is That COVID-19 Email Legitimate or a Phish?

It’s no surprise that phishers and scammers are using the avalanche of new information and events involving the global coronavirus pandemic as a way to successfully phish more victims. ...

Scammers Can Use Recent Transactions to Trick You

KrebsOnSecurity reports that scammers are using caller ID spoofing to impersonate their victims, and then socially engineering victims’ banks into divulging information about recent ...

[Heads Up] Microsoft: Ransomware Gangs That Don't Threaten To Leak Your Data Steal It Anyway

That means you can from now on count a ransomware infection as a data breach with all the consequences that this brings. Moreover, the so-called "human-operated" ransomware gangs have ...

[Click Alert] So, What Is The Phish-prone Percentage On Recent Coronavirus Phishing Tests?

I had some numbers run on the usage of our new, dedicated COVID-19 phishing templates to find out what the Phish-prone percentage was, since this is an unprecedented worldwide event. ...

Postcards from a Film Director. The challenges of creating a sitcom during COVID-19 Lockdown

By Jim Shields, Managing Director of U.K.-based Twist & Shout - a KnowBe4 company. When we first created Restricted Intelligence over seven years ago, we had no idea it would be so ...

COVID-19 Emails go From Zero to Half a Million a Day in Just Three Months

According to new data from security researchers at Forcepoint, the interest in coronavirus-themed emails and websites by cybercriminals is cause for concern.