2021 Phishing Trends Face Alarming Predictions and Will Likely Include Automated Attacks

Researchers at INKY warn that targeted phishing attacks will continue throughout 2021, as some employees return to the office and others continue working from home. They predict that ...

April 9, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

APT Group Use Voice-Changing Software to Impersonate Women as Part of Espionage Attacks

The middle eastern threat group known as APT-C-23 are targeting male soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces in an attempt to get their victims to download and install malware.

April 9, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

LinkedIn Data of 500 Million Users Hacked, Up For Sale: Report

Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn is reportedly the latest victim of a massive data breach where data of 500 million user profiles has been allegedly leaked by cybercriminals. The ...

March 30, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Ubiquiti Cyber Attack Details Depict a Far More Disastrous Scenario Than Let On

New whistleblower details surrounding the December 2020 attack on the cloud-enabled IoT device manufacturer paints a far worse picture than what was disclosed.

March 23, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Spoofing Tailored to Financial Departments

Researchers at Area 1 Security have warned of a large spear phishing campaign targeting financial departments and C-suite employees with spoofed Microsoft 365 login pages. The researchers ...

March 17, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

[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 ...

March 17, 2021 Roger Grimes

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.

March 16, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

March 16, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

Beware: Lots of COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Attacks Are Active and Looking for Their Next Victim

From spear phishing attacks, to malicious domains, to credential-hunting – as I predicted, COVID vaccines are the hot attack theme right now from just about every angle.

March 2, 2021 Stu Sjouwerman

By Their Poor Idiomatic Control Shall Ye Know Them

A new phishing campaign is impersonating Zoom in order to steal users’ Outlook credentials, according to researchers at GreatHorn. The attackers are using phishing URLs that spoof Zoom’s ...

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