Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Google has found that most phishing attacks (42%) target Gmail users in the US. Users in the UK were the second most targeted, with 10% of attacks. Japan came in third with 5% of phishing ...
This new phishing scam takes advantage of inherent trust in credible domains to get past the scrutiny of even Microsoft to trick Office 365 users into giving up their online credentials.
Australian medicinal cannabis company Cann Group has lost $3.6 million in a business email compromise (BEC) attack, Stockhead reports. The company had thought it was paying an unnamed ...
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You surf the world wide web, you scroll through social media feeds, read articles, shop online, and respond to email through the incredible invention of the internet. We're all driving on ...
The three best things you can do to improve your computer security, bar anything, have been the same three things you should have already been doing for the entirety of computers. The top ...
Employees are an essential component of an organization’s security defenses, according to Nico Popp, Chief Product Officer at Forcepoint. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, Popp ...
Researchers at HackNotice have found that the number of data breaches is increasing, while the number of breach notifications is declining, SecurityWeek reports. HackNotice analyzed ...
Social engineering and phishing happen when a con artist communicates a fraudulent message pretending to be a person or organization which a potential victim might trust in order to get ...
A phishing campaign is using convincingly spoofed offers for COVID-19 vaccination sign-ups, according to Tom Allen at Computing. As vaccines are now being distributed around the world, ...
A survey by ESET found that most people think they’d be able to identify scam emails while shopping online. 87% of respondents said they felt secure while shopping online, while 73% ...
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Social engineering and deception are as old as humanity itself. Phishing is social engineering and deception via digital means and has been with us since the beginning of computers. After ...
As organizations look to figure out where to strengthen their cybersecurity strategy, industry data provides guidance by pointing at one of the most common aspects of cyberattacks for ...
The Ryuk ransomware operators have raked in more than $150 million from their attacks, researchers at Advanced Intelligence and HYAS have found. The researchers describe how these ...
As most readers are undoubtedly aware, President Donald Trump has been de-platformed by major social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook, following events at the U.S. Capitol ...
A warning was recently issued by the Australian Government of cybercriminals impersonating the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to infect with malware.
Organizations need to monitor for common signs of imminent ransomware attacks, according to Peter Mackenzie from Sophos. In an article for the Saudi Gazette, Mackenzie outlines five ...
Security vendor CheckPoint provides insight into what are the organizational cybersecurity priorities for next two years, as well as where cybersecurity is going to be challenging.
It’s an extra challenging year, harder than most, to choose the most impactful cybersecurity events. The year ended with a bang – the Solarwinds supply chain attack – which possibly ...
