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

Your Organization Needs to Take Security Awareness Training More Seriously

Your organization needs to take security awareness training (SAT) more seriously. I mean truly serious, really serious, and not relegated to some quasi-, semi-serious status that the vast ...

Huge Business Email Compromise Campaign Targets More Than 120 Organizations

According to Bleeping Computer, Microsoft reported that a large business email compromise (BEC) campaign has targeted dozens of organizations. The industries targeted varied from real ...

Fake Court Order Used to Take Over Domains

Motherboard reports that a scammer used a phony court order to trick a domain registrar into giving them control over a domain that posted links to dark web drug markets. The scammer then ...

Cybersecurity Spend Is Now More Than 20% of the Average IT Budget

The latest data from the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report highlights how organizations are experiencing cyber threats and how they are responding to increase their readiness for next time.

Genesis Market: a Study in the C2C Economy

Researchers at Digital Shadows describe Genesis Market, a criminal-to-criminal marketplace that aggregates and sells digital fingerprints to facilitate cyberattacks. The researchers say ...

U.K. Royal Mail-related Phishing Scams Are Up 645%

New data from CheckPoint highlights how scammers are using simple shipping-related social engineering scams to trick victims into giving up personal information and credit card details.

Ransomware Operators Threaten to Short Victims’ Stocks

The Darkside ransomware operators are now offering to tip off unscrupulous stock traders before they post the names of publicly traded victim companies, the Record reports. The criminals ...

Scammers Target Rogers Customers With SMS Messages

Scammers are targeting Rogers customers with text messages offering $50 refunds, according to BleepingComputer. The Canadian telecommunications provider suffered a widespread outage last ...

Researchers Warn of EtterSilent Facilitating Risky Malware Delivery

Cybercriminals are using a new malicious document builder dubbed “EtterSilent,” according to researchers at Intel 471. The builder is used to craft Microsoft Office documents with macros ...

Phishing Campaign Abuses Contact Forms

Attackers are abusing websites’ contact forms to send malicious emails to the websites’ owners, according to researchers at Microsoft. The emails contain bogus copyright claims with a ...