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Stop Phishing Emails Fast: DMARC, SPF, And DKIM Made Simple
Phishing emails are still the most common entry point for a phishing attack, because a convincing phishing message can fool even vigilant users.
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My Website Keeps Crashing: The Secret to Reliable Web Hosting
A website that frequently goes offline disrupts both visitors and business goals.
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Urban VPN Proxy extension collects user data!
Urban VPN Proxy extension collects user data! https://media.mailhop.org/phishprotection/images/2025/12/Urban-VPN-Proxy-extension-collects-user-data.
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A massive 620% spike in phishing attacks: Courtesy Black Friday sales
A massive 620% spike in phishing attacks: Courtesy Black Friday sales https://www.phishprotection.
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Real world cargo: The new obsession of cybercrooks!
Real world cargo: The new obsession of cybercrooks! https://www.phishprotection.
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Everything You Need To Know About Email Phishing Filters And Spam Protection
Email phishing remains one of the most prevalent threats in the cyber threat landscape.
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KillSec Ransomware targets Brazilian health tech company!
KillSec Ransomware targets Brazilian health tech company! https://www.phishprotection.
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Qantas cyber incident: Executives punished by the board!
Qantas cyber incident: Executives punished by the board! https://www.phishprotection.
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Spear Phishing Solutions: Protecting Your Business From Targeted Email Threats
Spear phishing represents a highly targeted subset of phishing attacks designed to deceive specific individuals or organizations by masquerading as trustworthy.
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Water System Attacks: The New Strategy Leveraged By Threat Actors!
Water System Attacks: The New Strategy Leveraged By Threat Actors! https://www.phishprotection.
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Pandora targeted by cybercrooks: Here’s what you should know!
Pandora targeted by cybercrooks: Here's what you should know! https://www.phishprotection.
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A notorious Mexican cartel hired a hacker to track and kill FBI witnesses!
A notorious Mexican cartel hired a hacker to track and kill FBI witnesses! https://www.phishprotection.
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Anatomy of a Trust-Based Attack: Deconstructing the Nifty.com Phishing Campaign and the New Frontier of Corporate Defense
1. Fortify the "Human Firewall" (Highest Priority) This is the most critical and cost-effective area.
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All 14 centers of Kettering Health were affected by a massive ransomware attack, Major outage in the Ohio medical center
All 14 centers of Kettering Health were affected by a massive ransomware attack https://www.phishprotection.
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The automobile industry is the new favorite among cyberattackers!
The automobile industry is the new favorite among cyberattackers! https://www.phishprotection.
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300K vehicles and trip details exposed as NexOpt experienced a massive data breach!
300K vehicles and trip details exposed as NexOpt experienced a massive data breach! https://www.phishprotection.
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Is data theft the new normal in the ransomware ecosystem?
One of the most notorious ransomware gangs across the globe, Lockbit, has warned Kash Patel, the.
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Major cyber breach in Taylor Swift’s concert, hackers arrested!
If you’re a die-hard Swiftie, then you should definitely see this!
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UK’s compromised encryption move causes a stir worldwide!
Recently Apple decided to remove complete for the United Kingdom people, and it has not gone down so well with the users.
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US publication house targeted by threat actors!
One of the largest newspaper groups in the US- Lee Enterprises, faced the brunt of a cyberattack recently.
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A staggering 1M patients affected after a critical data breach at the Community Health Center
A significant data breach has occurred at the
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GhostGPT- GenAI model that boosts cybercrime
This article aims to find out what makes GhostGPT an absolute favorite among
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Volkswagen data breach impacts a whopping 800K EV users!
The automotive industry is increasingly becoming a popular pick among threat actors.
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DDoS attacks spike as Africa embraces rapid digitization!
Africa’s rapid digitization attempts have made it a prime target among threat actors. Jumping onto the
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India witnesses a steep rise in the number of API attacks!
India has been experiencing an alarming rise in API (Application Programming Interface) attacks, with banking and utilities sectors emerging as primary targets.
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Guidelines to follow to send emails to Gmail recipients
Google has always prioritized protecting its users and preventing
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Threat actors kill multiple birds with one stone!
Blue Yonder, an AI-oriented supply chain management platform, has been attacked by threat actors. The breach, identified as a , happened on November 21st, 2024.
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Apple enthusiasts must know about the two privacy issues in iPhones and iPads!
Just when the whole world is going gaga over the latest launch of
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FBI joint operation dismantles Chinese state-sponsored botnet
The FBI recently managed to dismantle a massive
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Fortinet data breach compelling enterprises to rethink cloud security!
Fortinet, a security vendor based in California, has recently released an official confirmation regarding a data breach. The hacker, known by the name of...
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Google Pixel phones are no longer safe because of this malicious APK!
Do you own a sleek, stylish Google Pixel phone? Then you have to see this!
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BlankBot Trojan targets Turkish Android users!
Turkish Android users are being targeted by the BlankBot banking trojan, a new malware designed to steal sensitive financial data and personal information from mobile devices.
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Delhi electricity bill scam- Discoms issue warning against cyber fraud!
Delhi electricity distribution companies have issued warnings about a surge in electricity bill scams, where cybercriminals send fake payment links to steal financial information.
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Australian hacker pulled off a fake Wi-Fi network scam in not 1 but 3 Australian domestic airports!
Threat actors never fail to surprise us with their
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LockBit claims to publish 33 terabytes worth of sensitive data of the US Federal Reserve Bank online
The LockBit ransomware gang, known for its , has just claimed to publish a huge cache file that it allegedly stole from the US Federal Reserve Central Banking.
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Children Of Corporate Executives Facing The Brunt Of Ransomware Attacks
Cybercrime has penetrated deep into the corporate world.
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That Unpaid Toll Text Message Can Render Your Bank Empty!
emailsecurity · That Unpaid Toll Text Message Can Render Your Bank Empty!
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Newbie CoralRaider Targets Asian Brands To Extract Social Media Data
There’s a new kid named CoralRaider in the block of Vietnamese cyber criminals.
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Seoul Witnesses a Coalition Against Increasing Phishing Actors!
emailsecurity · Seoul Witnesses a Coalition Against Increasing Phishing Actors!
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Threat Actor Entices EU Diplomats With Fake Wine-Tasting Invitation!
Threat actors around the globe are in no mood to hold their horses back. They have been using all the tricks they have up their sleeves.
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Okta Phishing Attack Facilitated By CryptoChameleon!
Hacking instances are rampant across the globe, and this time, the target is none other than the Federal Communications Commission or FCC.
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NCA Shakeup: Officers Fired in Wake of WhatsApp and Email Blunders!
It came as a shocker when the former Director of Investigation at the esteemed National Crime Agency got sacked because of her “misconduct.
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Nest Wallet Co-Founder Fell Victim to a Phishing Attack!
Phishing attacks have become quite rampant over the last few decades. And the latest victim is none other than the esteemed co-founder of Nest Wallet- Bill Lou.
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How do Multi-Stage Phishing Attacks Exploit QRs, CAPTCHAs, and Steganography?
Cybercriminals have always managed to stay ahead of the cyber security experts in terms of their ability to swiftly adapt to the everchanging technological.
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Emerging Threats in the Cybersecurity Landscape: Phishing Campaigns, Email Security, and Information Stealing Malware
Threat actors deploy multiple vectors to launch their cyberattack campaigns.
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IPFS Phishing Attacks: Phishing Campaigns Using IPFS Network Protocol on the Rise
There is a significant rise in IPFS phishing attacks in 2023, causing a considerable stir in the digital landscape.
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Almost $6 Million Extracted in New Crypto Phishing Fraud from Victims
The latest in the crypto-cybersecurity landscape is the loss of around $6 million from about 5,000 people in a case of a phishing-as-a-service campaign by.
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OCBC Phishing Scam: Singapore Bank’s Crisis of $240 Million Additional Capital Requirement
Here is a close look into the details of the OCBC phishing scam, how it happened, the damage it caused, how OCBC handled it, and the masterminds behind it.
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Scammers Launch Massive PayPal and MetaMask Phishing Campaigns
In one of the latest phishing scams, malicious actors are impersonating popular platforms like PayPal and MetaMask to target unsuspecting victims.
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T-Mobile Hit by a Second Data Breach in 2023: Customers’ Info at Risk, Again
US mobile carrier giant T-Mobile suffered another breach just four months into 2023.
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Threat Actors Target Western Digital, Cripple Its My Cloud Service
Undoubtedly, famous public cloud services providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft.
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Sensitive Information at Risk as a Security Breach Hits US Marshals Service
A major security breach has recently hit the US Marshals Service, putting sensitive information at risk, according to senior law enforcement officials.
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TELUS Launches Investigation After Potential Data Breach Leaks Source Code and Employee Info
TELUS, the Canadian telecom giant, is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor leaked what appears to be employee data and source code.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 12 of 2023
In today's constantly evolving threat landscape, attackers are always on the lookout for the next opportunity to obtain valuable personal data.
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GoDaddy Customers Beware: Hackers Have Been Stealing Source Code for Years
In the latest cybersecurity breach news, web hosting giant GoDaddy has revealed that malicious actors have been stealing its source code for several years.
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Threat Actors use NameCheap’s Email to Execute Metamask and DHL Phishing Attacks.
The recent security breach and phishing campaign that occurred at Namecheap, a domain registrar.
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Threat Actors Breach Reddit and Access Internal Documents, Code, and Business Systems
Threat actors managed to infiltrate the popular social media platform Reddit and access internal documents, code, and some internal business systems.
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Find Out About the Latest Case of Threat Actors Utilizing Phishing-as-a-Service to Steal $120,000
Threat actors made away with $120,000 from an innocent victim by duping them with a sophisticated phishing-as-a-service scam.
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Microsoft Disables Verified Microsoft Partner Network Accounts Used In Malicious Third-Party OAuth App Campaign
The latest online status symbol is getting verified on popular platforms like Instagram, Apple AppStore, or Twitter.
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Massive Google Fi Data Breach Opens up Individuals to SIM Swapping Attacks
The Google Fi platform was breached due to one of its unsecured network providers, opening the platform's customers up to SIM-swapping attacks.
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Threat Actors Using Malicious OneNote Attachments to Spread Malware via Phishing Emails
Threat actors have switched to a new type of file for their malicious purposes.
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PayPal Credential Stuffing Attack: Data of nearly 35,000 Accounts at Risk
Nearly 35,000 PayPal customers were the victim of a credential stuffing attack where threat actors got access to their personal and financial information.
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The Power of ChatGPT: How ChatGPT is Changing the Phishing Game
ChatGPT is changing the phishing game for threat actors who can use it for crafting phishing emails and bypassing MFA.
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BitRAT Malware Threat Actors Leveraging Stolen Columbian Cooperative Bank Data in Phishing Campaign
The BitRAT malware was used to target the Columbian Cooperative Bank, where the threat actors made away with records of over 400,000 individuals.
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The Role of Employees in Your Company’s Cybersecurity Breach
Cybersecurity is no longer something for ‘other’ companies to worry about.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 2 of 2023
The phishing threat landscape is constantly evolving, with threat actors likely to continue their actions in 2023.
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The Latest Iran-aligned Hacker Phishing Campaign Targeting Middle Eastern Countries
Iran-aligned hacker group, MuddyWater’s latest phishing campaign deploying the new Syncro remote administration tool is causing all kinds of trouble.
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The Password Manager Giant LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Vault Data in a Cloud Storage Breach
If you have a LastPass account, which you use to store login information and passwords, or you previously had one that you did not delete.
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Notable Phishing Attacks of 2022
As we enter into 2023, cybercriminals are continuing to evolve their tactics and techniques to carry out phishing attacks.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 1 of 2023
The ability of cybercriminals to operate from anywhere around the world and the increasing linkages between physical systems and cyberspace have led to rising.
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Business Essentials: The Top Email Marketing Security Strategies for 2023
Cybercriminals are continually targeting business emails, one of the most effective marketing tools for global businesses.
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New Schoolyard Bully Trojan Targeting Global Android Devices, Steals Facebook Logins
The Schoolyard Bully Trojan is a malware campaign that targets to get into victims' devices and steal their Facebook logins.
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Phishing Campaign Spreading Evolved IceXLoader Malware To Exfiltrate Data
The IceXLoader malware has evolved and is striking via a phishing email, dropping the malware payload capable of advanced, evasive.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 46 of 2022
Over the past years, phishing attacks have evolved in number and intensity.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 45 of 2022
You may hardly find an industry today that is not impacted by phishing attacks.
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Robin Banks Phishing Service Back with Cookie Stealer and Russian Server
The Robin Banks PhaaS platform is back with a new Russian server and a cookie stealer to bypass 2FA and compromise organizational accounts.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 44 of 2022
Threat actors continue to target organizations worldwide to get access to their information assets.
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As Twitter Plans To Charge Verified Users $8 Fee, Threat Actors Start Launching Phishing Campaigns Exploiting The Situation
Scammers and hackers are exploiting the confusion regarding Twitter's new CEO, Elon Musk's plans for paid blue ticks on the platform.
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Social Engineering Attack on Twilio Compromises Employee Accounts and Customer Data
Twilio has suffered a second attack, leading to the compromise of its former and current employee accounts and the loss of sensitive customer information.
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Interserve Fined $5 Million by ICO and Why Anti-Phishing Measures are the Need of the Hour
The ICO has fined Interserve £4.4 million, which is about $5 million, due to the data breach compromising the financial and personal data of 113,000 employees.
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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 41 of 2022
Taking cybercriminals lightly is no longer an option with the evolving threat landscape.
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American Airlines Suffers Employee Email Data Breach, Personal Information at Risk
Airline giant, American Airlines released a data breach notification, informing about a data breach compromising the accounts of its employees.
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Iranian-Aligned Cybercriminal Group targets Researchers, Academics, and Journalists with Sophisticated Phishing Campaign
TA453, an Iranian-aligned cybercriminal group, is harvesting credentials by employing multi-persona impersonation.
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0ktapus – Okta Breach Helps Attackers Launch Sophisticated Supply Chain Attacks
Organizations implement Multi-factor authentication (MFA) as an enterprise identity security tool to protect them against credential theft.
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Phishing Remains the Top Email Threat and Emerging Email Attack Trends by the Latest Abnormal Security Report
Abnormal Security has released the H2 Email Security Threat report highlighting the top email security threats in the first six months of 2022.
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Healthcare Industry Continues to be Impacted By Data Breaches According to the Latest Report
HIPAA journal has revealed the latest Healthcare Data Breach report highlighting millions of compromised healthcare records.
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How Adversaries Stole Over $500 Million from this Crypto-based Game Using Phishing Tactics
Blockchain gaming is gaining popularity due to the lucrative earning opportunities it offers its players.
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New NakedPages Phishing Toolkit Causing a Ruckus in the Cybersecurity Industry
The NakedPages phishing toolkit model has been making headlines since its discovery by CloudSEK researchers.
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Cybercrime’s Latest: Matanbuchus Employed in Phishing Campaign to Infect Devices with Cobalt Strike
There is a new phishing spam campaign making headlines in the cybersecurity world that delivers malware onto compromised machines.
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Cybercriminals are Duping Millions of Accounts in the Latest Facebook Phishing Campaign
The talk of the town is the phishing campaign on Facebook that has reportedly duped millions into providing their login credentials to cybercriminals.
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Phishing Trends in 2022 So Far, And What You Can Learn From Them
Phishing is one of the most formidable threats in the cyber world today.
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The Latest Malware Jester Stealer Warning in Ukraine from CERT-UA: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalates, the potential of utilizing more lethal weapons, which was previously merely a fear.
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Evolving Phishing Attack Trends: A Nightmare for Security Solutions
Phishing has been one of the most widespread cyber threats and a significant challenge for security solutions for almost three decades.
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Social Media Impersonation in Phishing: 2022’s Latest Wave of Cybercrime
Cybercrimes have escalated significantly in the past couple of years owing to the mass adoption of online services.
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Voice Phishing: Surfacing of a New Cyber Threat on Whatsapp
Researchers at Armorblox found a malicious campaign that targeted WhatsApp users.
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Microsoft Azure Phishing Scam: The New Favorite Of Malicious Actors
Microsoft Azure is one of the leading cloud services used by developers and organizations worldwide.
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RTLO Phishing Scam Revival – Everything You Need to Know About this Age-old Cyber Threat
The RTLO (or RLO) technique is one of the cybercriminals' oldest and most common techniques.
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Threat Actors are Using the Russia-Ukraine Conflict to Launch Phishing Attacks
Recently, according to a Google report, Russian and Belarusian cybercriminals have attacked Ukrainian citizens.
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Data Breaches & How They Impact Small Businesses
The rising threat of cyberattacks and data breaches, in particular, can cripple any organization, especially a small business.
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Latest Phishing Trends: Financial Services, Facebook, and Microsoft, the Biggest Impersonation Targets of Threat Actors
Phishing remains the top method that cybercriminals use to target individuals and employees worldwide to lure them in and lead them to fake applications.
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Ice Phishing – A New Threat to Your Crypto Assets
With its technological advancements, such as Web3, blockchain, and cryptocurrency, the digital world has become a breeding ground for new forms of cyberattacks.
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The surge of LinkedIn Phishing Attacks – Courtesy of the “The Great Resignation”
Cybercriminals have always been actively looking for methods to breach security and acquire information that can be used as leverage over the victims.
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Two Decades-Old Phishing Attack Revamped
The RLO technique is a simple technique that disguises malicious files making them seem like simple text files.
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Cryptocurrency Phishing Scams: 2022’s top and Latest Threat Revealed by Security Regulators
The most significant hazards to investors in 2022, according to NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association).
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Latest Phishing Campaign Targeting Microsoft Proves Why Not Having Multi-Factor Authentication is Risky for Organizations
Phishing is the most frequently used break-in technique and an attack vector malicious actors have used for years.
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Threat Actors Exploit Adobe’s Creative Cloud
Entrepreneurs using Adobe Creative Cloud as a part of their organizational operations need to guard against a new cyberattack model employed by threat actors.
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Recent FIFA 22 Incident and Phishing Attacks in the Gaming industry
There has been an unprecedented rise in gaming during the last few years, with smartphones making it more popular than ever.
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Malicious Actors Exploit Commenting Feature In Google Docs to Send Phishing Emails
According to a recent Axios report, over 2 million monthly active users use G Suite products.
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The Rise of Survey Scams in The Advertising Industry And The Precautions Organizations Need To Take To Prevent Such Scams
Digitization has witnessed a sudden boom in online data storage, where not only work but entertainment, education.
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QR Code Phishing Attacks: Save Your Organization From The New Wave of Phishing Scams
QR (Quick Response) codes have become widespread with the rise of smartphone usage.
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Beware of Omicron Phishing Scams
According to a survey conducted by F5 Labs in 2020, phishing scams have increased by 220% since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Things You Need to Learn From The Latest GoDaddy Phishing Attack
As the world transforms into a more digitally connected environment, the risks have also amplified manifold.
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HTML Smuggling: The New Mode of Phishing Attack
Phishing has long been one of the most common types of cybersecurity threats for enterprises.
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Google Ads Impersonation Scams – How to Avoid Falling Victim to Such Phishing Attempts
Google influences many of our buying decisions each day, having an estimated 85-90% of the search engine market share worldwide.
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Everything You Need To Know About The Latest Tech Support Scams Involving Phishing Attacks
Tech support teams assist users in overcoming various technical challenges they might be facing while operating a computer or a laptop.
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Threat Actors are Leveraging Excel Files to Execute Phishing Campaigns – Here’s Everything You Need to Know!
During the past year, users have come across several attacks that leveraged the technique of Excel 4.
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What is Smishing and Why Organizations need to Keep Safe From This Phishing Scam
Smishing, a relatively new form of cyberattack, is threatening millions of small businesses and consumers worldwide.
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The Revival Of IDN (Phishing) Attacks With Microsoft Outlook
The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) consists of a combined Unicode character set with similar Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
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The Rise in Online Payments Has Given Rise to Phishing Attacks
Phishing is one of the oldest forms of social engineering, which malicious actors use to extract critical information from users.
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How To Deal With The Most Recent Trends in Spear-Phishing Attacks
With advancements in technology, crimes like cyber theft, phishing, and scamming have increased over the years.
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Why Mobile Phishing Attacks Are On The Rise And Strategies On How To Counter Them
According to a recent report, 85% of all organizations have been targets of phishing attacks.
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2021 Phishing Trends You Need To Be Wary Of
Social engineering is the technique of employing psychological methods and communication skills, generally by competitors and adversaries.
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Domain Squatting And Phishing: Everything You Need To Know
Domain squatting, also known as cybersquatting, can be understood as an intentional act of registering a domain in the name of an already existing organization.
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Phishing Continues To Impact Industries Worldwide
In this tech-advanced world where all information and communication has undergone a paradigm online shift.
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AI In Phishing: How Artificial Intelligence Can Act As Both, A Boon And Bane When It Comes To Phishing
Cybercrime is directly proportional to improving technology; technology is advancing by leaps and bounds.
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Data Breaches And Phishing Attacks: How Third-party Vendors Can Jeopardize Your Organization
The recent pandemic-induced rush of small to medium businesses and large enterprises to get on the cloud has encouraged malicious actors to develop more.
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How Threat Actors Use Phishing & Other Methods To Launch Backdoor Attacks
Some of the world's most audacious cyberattack attempts or incidents have happened due to the presence of backdoors.
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Increased Phishing Attacks During The Pandemic : How To Stay Safe and Relevant In a Post-COVID Era
Phishing has been one of the favorite modes of cyber-attacks employed by malicious actors for years now.
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Crypto Phishing Scams Gaining Momentum With More And More Coins Getting Into The Market
With technology improving by the hour, cybercrime is also steadily on the rise.
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Phishing Alert: SolarWinds Hackers Back In Action, Target US Government And 150 Organizations
In a cyber-attack that will be remembered as one of the most significant phishing email attacks in decades to come.
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Ransomware Hits: The Reason Why Businesses Need To Adopt Robust Anti-Phishing Measures
Due to the ongoing pandemic, multitudes of people have been obligated to work remotely, making phishing attacks commonplace in the digital world.
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Know About The Real-World Solutions To Fight Phishing Attacks Effectively
Combating cyberattacks happen to be a top priority for global organizations.
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The Severity Of Phishing Attacks Involving Google Applications And How To Keep Safe From It
With the pandemic raging across the world, many business networks and organizations have switched over to working from home to let themselves be operational.
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How To Achieve The Best Phishing Protection?
If you oversee the information security services and administration of the networks in your organization.
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Basics Of Phishing: What Is A Supply Chain Attack And Why You Must Be Wary Of It As A New Business Owner
Today, merely knowing how to stop phishing emails cannot guarantee cybersecurity.
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The Latest In Phishing Scams: Hackers Can Now Bypass Two-Factor Authentication
Not a day goes by without phishing scams occurring somewhere in the world.
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Sim Swap Fraud: The Reason Why You Must Adopt Robust Anti-Phishing Measures Besides 2FA
Cyberspace provides many avenues for malicious actors to attack, exploit and cause damage to individuals and organizations.
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6 Biggest Data Breaches From Recent Years That Lay Down The Importance Of Adopting Anti-Phishing & Cybersecurity Tools
Data breaches have become a part of people's daily lives. Every day, there is news about network infiltrations and data stealing. So far, almost 3.
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Phishing Is Here To Stay: What Can You Do To Keep Your Information Assets Safe?
The post-pandemic digital age presents several new and exciting opportunities for organizations.
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Phishing Case Studies: Learning From the Mistakes Of Others
Phishing remains one of the oldest and the most commonly used modus operandi by cyber adversaries to access network systems globally.
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Phishing Attacks In The Tax Season And What To Do About It
Tax season is often punctuated with a mad rush for closures and submissions.
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How Threat Actors Take Advantage Of Fintech Platforms To Launch Phishing Campaigns
Technology has made tremendous strides in the recent past. While it has proven beneficial to society, malicious actors have also benefited from the same.
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How Adequate Protection Against Malware Can Help Secure Your Organization’s Network Systems
Before we look at ways of protection against malware, let us do a quick recap on what malware is and the extent of damage it can cause.
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Keep Yourself Safe From Ransomware: Learn How Do You Get Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that takes control of the victim's system and threatens to block access or delete files if the victim ignores it.
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How To Get Past Spam Filters To Make Sure Your Genuine Marketing Emails Are Not Marked As Phishing Ones
An email marketer puts efforts into creating a quality prospective consumer list, designing a great email, and focusing on the campaign's success.
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What Makes Government Departments A Prime Target For Cybercrime Such As Phishing Attacks?
Cybercrime is one of the primary forms of menace in the online world. Threats like phishing and ransomware attacks have been around for a long time now.
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Phishing Attacks In The Manufacturing Industry: Why Is It A Lucrative Target For Phishers
Various industries have fallen victim to phishing globally, and the manufacturing sector is no exception due to decentralized IT infrastructure and fragmented.
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Cybersecurity In Insurance Industry: Why Has It Become A Lucrative Target For Threat Actors?
Insurers deal with enormous risks every day. Risk management is an inherent part of the insurance business.
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Phishing Threats That Got Reinforced In 2020, And Will Likely Continue in 2021
With the Pandemic raging across the length and breadth of the world, there has been a lot of chaos and confusion amongst organizations’ workforce.
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What Makes Healthcare Sector A Prime Target And What Can Be Done To Avoid These Phishing Attacks?
The medical world has been one of the domains that have seen unprecedented advancement.
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The Rise Of Package Delivery Phishing Scams In COVID Times
In times of the Coronavirus Pandemic, when people are too apprehensive of walking to the local stores and malls.
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What Makes Financial Institutions A Prime Phishing Target For Threat Actors
All organizations providing financial services such as banking, investment, and insurance constitute financial institutions.
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Rising Phishing Attacks On Schools And Colleges As Online Education Becomes More Prevalent Than Ever
As online education has become more prevalent than ever, schools and colleges face tremendous challenges due to COVID-19.
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Covid-related Phishing Attacks are Just Getting Started
Covid has been around for more than seven months now. And in that time, it has become the number one source of phishing attacks worldwide.
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An Email Phishing Test That Totally Backfired
How good are your employees at spotting phishing emails? There's a really easy way to find out.
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The Phishing Attack You Knew Was Bound to Happen
When it comes to preventing phishing attacks, companies are often torn between how to spend their security dollars.
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Here Come the Election-Related Phishing Attacks
If it's time for a big election, you can be sure the scammers will take advantage of that in the next round of phishing attacks.
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The Surprising Facts Behind Brand Impersonation Attacks
As far as phishing attacks go, brand impersonation is the go-to tactic for attackers.
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Phishing Attacks are no Longer Just Malicious Links in Emails
Combating phishing attacks used to be just a matter of not clicking on malicious links in an email.
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Is There Something Worse Than Getting a Layoff Notice?
There are two really scary aspects to getting a layoff notice. First, of course, is that you're being laid off, which stinks.
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If These Guys Can Get Phished Anyone Can
Who would you expect to be the last organization taken in by a phishing attack?
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It Doesn’t Take Long for a Phishing Attack to do its Damage
Given how widespread phishing attacks are, you might think that not only are there a lot of phishing attacks, but that each one lasts a long time.
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You’ll Never Guess What was Behind the Great Twitter Hack: Phishing
If you haven't already heard, Twitter was hacked recently and some pretty high-profile people like Barack Obama and Elon Musk had their accounts compromised.
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When it Comes to Phishing You Can no Longer Trust Trusted Services
At this point, it's probably impossible to find a company that doesn't rely on some cloud-based trusted services.
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The Numbers are in: You Can’t Stop Email Impersonation Without Help
Email impersonation is one of the most prevalent and effective types of phishing attacks. Why is that?
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Biggest Heist In Twitter’s History: How Cyber Adversaries Used Coordinated Social Engineering Attack To Target Verified Twitter Accounts Of Celebrities
, the adversaries could successfully barge into some of the most popular accounts of the San Francisco-based social networking platform Twitter.
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Something New: The Dual Impersonation Business Email Compromise Scam
As far as phishing emails go, business email compromise (BEC) are amongst the most sophisticated.
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Will Office 365 Email Ever Be Safe?
Probably not. Office 365 has two things going against it when it comes to safe email.
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When it Comes to Phishing Attacks Hackers Get You Coming and Going
Before COVID-19, pretty much everyone worked in an office so that's where hackers aimed their phishing attacks.
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The Scary Phishing Attack on Bank of America
Just detecting a phishing attack on a bank isn't an extraordinary event.
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What Follows COVID Phishing Attacks? Black Lives Matter Phishing Attacks!
If it's in the news, it's a phishing attack waiting to happen. First, it was the popularity of the show Game of Thrones. Then it was the new Star Wars sequel.
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How To Protect Your SMBs (Small Medium Businesses) From Phishing
In the 21st century, enterprises are facing a severe threat from people they have not met, and may never meet.
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The Perfect Phishing Setup: A VPN Configuration from the IT Department
Hackers are always trying different ways to get you to let your guard down.
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Why Remote Workers are so Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
Workers suddenly finding themselves working remotely are extremely vulnerable to phishing attacks.
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Phishing: A Threat To Your Business And Employees
With the growing dependence on technology in today’s digital world, phishing attacks are also evolving by each passing the day.
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10 Ways Hackers are Using Coronavirus to Phish You
COVID-19 has been a goldrush for hackers looking to exploit the epidemic.
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More Bad News for Microsoft 365 Users
As we've written about many times before, Microsoft Office 365's native security does not do a very good job of protecting you from phishing attacks which.
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Phishing is Changing but Defense Remains the Same
One of the challenges to stopping phishing attacks is that hackers used to be really nimble.
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Sophisticated New Tactic Makes Phishing Emails Harder to Detect
You've seen reCAPTCHA. It's the image verification software that asks you to click on the cars or the crosswalks to verify you're a human being and not a bot.
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Zoom isn’t the Only Video Conferencing Service Being Targeted by Phishing Attacks
If you've been paying attention, you know that the Zoom video conferencing service has been in the news a lot recently as a prime target for phishing attacks.
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Hackers Now Going After Software Tools Which Help Workers Collaborate
In business today we use software in almost everything we do. What’s proven to be especially useful is web-based software or software-as-a-service (SaaS).
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There’s More Than Just COVID-19 Phishing Emails Out There
COVID-19 is certainly grabbing the majority share of the headlines today. And why not? Afterall, it is a worldwide pandemic.
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Hackers Leveraging Other Services to Supercharge Coronavirus Phishing Scams
The world is starting to wake up to the onslaught of coronavirus-themed phishing emails.
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COVID-19 Fear Leads to Trickledown Phishing Scams
One of the fastest-growing security threats today is coronavirus-based phishing scams.
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Coronavirus Requires Two Quarantines
By now, everyone has heard of COVID-19, the coronavirus rapidly spreading across the globe.
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How Chatbots Became a Phishing Tool
Whenever someone develops technology to help people, you can be sure that eventually.
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Sometimes When You go Phishing You Catch a Shark
It's easy to assume that someone who is rich and famous is also tech savvy, but that's not always the case.
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Phishing Attacks Get Really Scary When They Stop Attacking People and Start Attacking Systems
When you think about phishing attacks, most people think the ultimate goal is to get the victim's credentials and use them to possibly impersonate them or.
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How Something Meant to Protect Your Mobile Device is Being Used to Phish You
Since mobile devices are essentially computers, it didn’t take long to figure out they needed to be protected like computers.
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Hackers Use Recent Tragedies to Target Phishing Victims
Hackers have no soul. They will use any means available to target victims with phishing emails, including seizing on the latest widely-known tragedies.
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The News Gets Worse for Victims of Ransomware
Hackers using ransomware to extort money from victims used to have a fairly straightforward playbook: gain access to the victims data.
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The Newest Phishing Tactic Designed to Get You to Click
Phishing is a pretty straightforward scam. Get victims to click on a link they shouldn't.
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Bad News for Phishing Attacks: AI is Coming
If you're responsible for email security at your company, then you're acutely aware of the role that social engineering) plays in effective phishing attacks.
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May the Force Be With You - That Force is a Phishing Attack
The newest Star Wars movie due out this week, The Rise of Skywalker, could just as easily be titled The Rise of Hackers.
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The Latest Popular Service to Serve You up Phishing Emails: Spotify
If it's a popular consumer service, you can bet that eventually, hackers will use it in phishing attacks.
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How Hotels Leave You Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
If you invest in phishing protection software, which you should, you probably think you’re safe from phishing attacks.
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You’ll Never Guess What Technique Cyberspies Use to Hack into Google
Government-backed cyberspies are always looking for a way to gain access to people's sensitive information.
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What Happens When a Phishing Email Isn’t?
Everyone's on the lookout for phishing emails today (or if they're not, they should be). Some people are on high alert and are really good at spotting them.
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Healthcare Organizations Still Reluctant to Protect Themselves from Phishing Attacks
What's the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Apparently the shame is on the healthcare industry.
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Closing on a Home Loan? You’re a Prime Target for Getting Phished
At the end of the day, most phishing emails are based on the same thing: a plausible financial transaction.
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The Multiplying Effect of Vendor Email Compromise
By now, most people know about the potential threat from business email compromise or BEC).
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Phishers Sure are Cold-hearted
When you tell me that phishers go after large enterprises, I get it. There's a lot of valuable data there.
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Ransomware Statistics Present A Grim Scenario About The Vulnerabilities Of The Users
Given the proliferation of the internet and e-mails as the preferred means of communication, ransomware attacks are on an upward spree.
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User Accounts On Netflix Hacked By The Thousands
Netflix, the popular online entertainment and video streaming site.
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Time for Your Yearly Performance Appraisal? Maybe not!
If you work at an organization, there's a pretty good chance you're in for a yearly performance appraisal.
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Hackers Show Once Again They Care About More Than Just Money
When you think of phishing, you probably think of ransomware (which you should).
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Why the New Instagram Anti-Phishing Tool Won’t Work
As previously discussed on this blog, Instagram is now more popular than Facebook when it comes to phishing attacks.
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You’ll Never Guess Who’s Behind the Latest Phishing Attacks
Would you believe North Korea, Nigeria and Egypt?
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Hackers Find One More Way to Use Google to Scam You
At this point, mentioning a new Google attack vector is almost not news anymore, given how many times the company's services have been exploited.
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Microsoft and Google Team up to Phish You
When hackers go after you with phishing emails, you'll never guess which brand they impersonate the most. Microsoft.
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New Phishing Exploit Leaves Android Phones Vulnerable
Got an Android Phone? You're going to love this. Attackers can now take control of your phone over-the-air.
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Phishing Attacks Now Coming in Stages
It never ceases to amaze how clever hackers are or how far they'll go to phish someone.
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Threats From Obsolete Phishing Protection: Are You Safe?
The rate of cybercrimes has risen drastically across the globe in recent times.
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All Those Security Breaches are Finally Coming Home to Roost
It seems like every week we hear about another major security breach.
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White House – The Most Secure Place In The World Targeted By Cyber Criminals Through Spear Phishing Attacks
It was not long ago the white house was in the news when US intelligence agencies concluded Russia tried to sway the US presidential election in favor of.
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Phishing Prevention: Email Providers Aren’t Helping Any
How many employees have to get phished before they take action? How much ransomware has to be paid before they take action?
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The Homograph Phishing Attack: The Antidote to Awareness Training
If you've ever taken phishing awareness training, you've most likely been taught to identify domain name spoofing.
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One Phishing Filter is Not Enough Which is Why You Need Six
A recent article on the Help Net Security website discussed the results of research into the effectiveness of phishing filters.
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13 Spear Phishing Attacks Examples To Justify Investment For Phishing Prevention Solutions In Your Organization
Spear Phishing is a type of phishing attack which generally targets “Whales” or “high-level organizational actors” such as C-suite executives (e.g.
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Office 365: Almost Any Amount You Spend to Avoid a Phishing Attack is Worth it
Osterman Research came out with their Office 365 Email Security 2019 Benchmarking Survey and the results are scary for organizations using Office 365 for email.
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Spear Phishing: The Greatest Threat to Democracy
What's the greatest threat to democracy today? How about election results that can't be trusted because the election was manipulated by hackers.
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Reeling in a Different Kind of Phish at Sea
Fishing can be a very profitable enterprise. Many commercial fishing fleets head out to sea each day hoping to land a big catch.
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What to do If You’re Hit by Ransomware
There's much debate going on today about what to do if your organization gets hit by ransomware. There's really only two choices: pay it or don't.
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Is Paying Ransom Being Considered As The Best Way Out For Dealing With Ransomware Attacks
Phishing has been on the rise in form or the other, ever since users have started to use emails, messages, phones, etc. Every other month, around 1.
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Death, Taxes and the Evolution of Phishing Attacks
They say nothing is certain in life except for death and taxes. You can add one more to that list: phishing attacks.
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When the Department of Homeland Security isn’t so Secure
, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) mission is "to secure the nation from the many threats we face.
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Ever Heard of an Angler Phishing Attack?
You wouldn't put up a neon sign outside your home that says "rob this house" before you left for a week's vacation.
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Five Phishing Tactics Sure to Trick You Into Clicking
By now, most people know that 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email.
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Everyone Loves PDFs Including Hackers
If you're doing business, then you're sending, receiving and reading PDFs. PDFs have become ubiquitous in business as a way of sending documents over the web.
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The Problems With Paying a Phishing Ransom
If you haven't been paying attention, a lot of organizations have been hit by ransomware lately, almost all of which are triggered by a phishing email.
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Phishing Prevention: If Users are the Weakest Link, Why is Training the Only Solution?
In cybersecurity, there's a best practice called Defense in Depth. The idea behind Defense in Depth is very simple.
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Phishing Awareness Training is Getting Some Large Investments
It sure is a good time to be in the phishing awareness training business, especially if you're looking for investors to invest in your company.
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Phishing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Google
Google is great. It offers a lot of useful services for free. And those services are tightly integrated so they work well together.
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Some Truly Startling Phishing Statistics
Which phishing statistic is scarier? That 94% of organizations say they were hit with a phishing attack in 2018 or that the attacks themselves may be underrepor
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SaaS Makes Business Easier and More Vulnerable
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is being used more and more to deliver mission critical services to business of all sizes.
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How Perfectly Safe Emails From Trusted Parties Suddenly Turn Dangerous
When you think of phishing attacks, you think about some hacker directly sending you a malicious email with the hope that you'll trust them and click on a link.
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Phishing Attacks: Top Executives Better be Worried
If you're in the C-suite, you'd better get yourself some phishing protection.
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When it Comes to Getting Phished, Game of Thrones is no Fantasy
Phish protection technology is needed more than ever for fans of the wildly popular TV show Game of Thrones.
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Compromised Microsoft Credentials is Code for They Got Phished
If you haven't already heard, Hackers compromised Microsoft support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts.
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The Only Thing Worse Than Clicking on a Malicious Link in a Phishing Email
You might think that the worst thing you can do with a phishing email is to click on the malicious link embedded within. You'd be wrong.
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How Someone Else Getting Phished Can Cost You Your Life
When it comes to phishing attacks, you probably don't give it a second thought when someone else gets phished. But maybe you should.
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Phishing Prevention Best Practices eBook is Right on the Mark
phishing prevention best practices eBook , we provide ten best practices for small and mid-size businesses. We know these practices work.
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Why More and More Phishing Attacks are Going After Mobile Users
Phishing attacks are hard to stop because hackers are extremely sophisticated and they use every method available.
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Phishing in the News
2018's Primary Breach Actors Were Malicious Outsiders by security firm Tripwire, "2018’s primary breach actors were malicious outsiders.
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Do I Need Third-Party Phishing Protection for Office 365?
Office 365’s security features won’t protect users from all cyber security threats. Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 user base is growing at a steady rate.
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Phishing Attack Mechanics: How Cybercrime Strategy Works
Phishing attacks follow five key steps. Effective cybersecurity prevents them at each one. “They’re not interested in companies like ours.
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The Top 5 Phishing Scams in History – What You Need to Know
Learn how to protect yourself by studying the biggest phishing scams in history If we draw an analogy between phishing and fishing.