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

A Can of Phishbait: from Surveys to Rule Changes to Your Boss's Boss

Employees need to continue being wary of phishing scams as they begin to return to the office, according to Roger Kay at INKY. Kay describes several phishing templates that INKY has ...

Not Your Father's Tech Support Scam

Over the past month or so customers using the Phish Alert Button (PAB) have been reporting a curious wave of what initially appeared to be run-of-the-mill tech support scam emails. As it ...

Many Ways To Hack MFA

I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to hack multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. I have done so my whole career, deploying dozens, if not hundreds, of MFA projects. Also, ...

Mom Charged in Deepfake Cheerleading Plot

Raffaela Marie Spone, a 50-year-old mom from Pennsylvania, has been arrested after allegedly leveraging deepfake technology to target several of her daughter’s cheerleading rivals.

Researchers Have Their Eye on Malicious Clones of Android Apps That Put Devices at Risk

Researchers at Check Point have found malicious apps in the Google Play Store that will download Trojans to infected devices.

[EYE-OPENER] USA CISA Advisory on Trickbot Campaigns: Phishing Training For Employees

March 17, 2021 — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have observed continued targeting through spear phishing campaigns ...

Make No Mistake, This Changes Everything: Nation-State 2.0

Every organization needs to figure out their increased cyber risk from nation-state warfare attacks and deploy mitigations.

Give Me £1,000 to Stop Calling You

Some scammers are taking a more direct approach to asking for money, according to BBC reporter Jane Wakefield. Wakefield received a call from a scammer who claimed to work for Microsoft, ...

6 Advanced Email Phishing Attacks

No matter how good your policies and technical defenses are, some amount of phishing will get to your end users in a given month. They must be trained to recognize social engineering ...

FBI Warns Against Deepfakes' Potential for Social Engineering

The FBI has issued an advisory warning of an expected increase in the use of deepfakes for social engineering attacks. Deepfakes are images, videos, audio, or text created via AI to ...