Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2022

The post Which phishing scams are trending in 2022? From fans of the K-Pop band BTS being tricked into following crypto-related Twitter handles to fake initial coin offerings (ICOs), the popularity of cryptocurrency provides scammers with many opportunities. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

In 2022, phishing attacks have not only increased substantially, but they have also taken a new turn of events. According to the Agari and PhishLabs Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence report, phishing attacks are gradually being delivered through a wide range of online platforms.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: Have you forgotten about phishing? Thanks for joining us for the first release in our Cyber Security Awareness Month series. Check out our other recent. first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Phishing was the most common type of identity-related incident in 2022, according to a study by Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), a non-profit, identity and security intelligence firm.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

SlashNext analyzed billions of link-based URLs, attachments, and natural language messages in email, mobile and browser channels over six months in 2022 and found more than 255 million attacks – a 61% increase in the rate of phishing attacks compared to 2021.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 27, 2022

If you haven't yet received phishing emails pretending to be from Amazon, you will soon. The post Fake Amazon Emails sent by Hackers: How to prevent Phishing Scams appeared first on Cyphere | Securing Your Cyber Sphere. Luckily, there are a few steps that can help protect your account and data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. But by the time we got to claims made in the middle of May 2022, completing the rest of the year’s timeline seemed unnecessary.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Read about the top phishing breaches & phishing tactics used in 2022. Be proactive against phishing attacks in 2023 with AI & automation. The post The Biggest Phishing Breaches of 2022 and How to Avoid them for 2023 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by threat actors. The post BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. US phishing domains.US This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com. The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 8, 2022

It’s no news that phishing leads all cyberattack types in volume and success rate. Phishing statistics by Verizon state that 93% of successful cyberattacks start with a spear-phishing attack. Phishing email statistics from other sources also mention that 96% of all phishing attacks arrive by email.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 24, 2022

A study conducted by Agari and PhishLabs found a five-times increase in attempted vishing attacks from the beginning of 2021 to Q1 of 2022. The post Voice phishing attacks reach all-time high appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 29, 2023

Credential phishing emails are the clear favorite of threat actors, with a 478% spike last year, new research shows.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 16, 2022

HTML files remain one of the most popular attachments used in phishing attacks for the first four months of 2022, showing that the technique remains effective against antispam engines and works well on the victims themselves. [.].

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 1, 2023

Mobile phishing is an issue plaguing the masses and a growing concern for enterprises, particularly as 2022 had the highest percentage of mobile phishing encounter rates ever, according to Lookout ‘s Global State of Mobile Phishing report. have been exposed to at least one malicious phishing attack every quarter.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Phishing attacks continue to be one of the most significant threats facing organizations today. As businesses increasingly rely on digital communication channels, cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in email, SMS, and voice communications to launch sophisticated phishing attacks.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

To get access to the content (or contest), phishing sites prompted the victim to sign in to one of their gaming accounts. If the victim entered their credentials on the phishing form, the account was hijacked. Cryptocurrency scams Phishing aimed at stealing crypto wallet credentials remained a common money-making tool.

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The Hacker News

MAY 13, 2023

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS or PaaS) platform named Greatness has been leveraged by cybercriminals to target business users of the Microsoft 365 cloud service since at least mid-2022, effectively lowering the bar to entry for phishing attacks.

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NSTIC

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This blog will officially wrap up our 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog series — today we have a special interview from Marian Merritt, deputy director, lead for industry engagement for the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)!

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

They have become adept at using Telegram both for automating their activities and for providing various services — from selling phishing kits to helping with setting up custom phishing campaigns — to all willing to pay. ” Links to the channels are spread via YouTube, GitHub and phishing kits they make.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 19, 2022

LinkedIn was exploited in almost half of the phishing attempts seen by Check Point Research during the second quarter of 2022. The post LinkedIn and Microsoft are the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks appeared first on TechRepublic.

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SecureList

MARCH 27, 2023

technologies — the distributed file system IPFS — for email phishing attacks. URL formats can be quite different, for example: [link] [link] Phishing and IPFS In 2022, scammers began actively using IPFS for email phishing attacks. In this article, I will dwell on how they use one of the WEB 3.0 What is IPFS?

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Phishing scams continue to top the list of cybercrimes. Unfortunately, it’s likely 2022 will continue this trend as these types of social engineering attacks become more sophisticated. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. have experienced a successful phishing.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 22, 2022

A new wave of targeted voicemail phishing attacks has been hitting US companies in selected verticals since May 2022. The post Targeted voicemail phishing attacks hits specific US industries’ verticals appeared first on TechRepublic. The campaign’s goal is to collect Office 365 credentials of legitimate corporate users.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 14, 2023

Cryptocurrency-related phishing attacks are on the rise, with a report from Kaspersky recording an increase of 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year. The post Cryptocurrency Phishing Threats Luring New Victims appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Phishing attacks are one of the main cyber threats involving mistakes by workers. Arranging training for your employees is a great way to protect your company against phishing and its expensive and time-consuming consequences. About 25% of all data breaches are caused by human error.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2023

In its H1 2023 Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights , Perception Point reported an overall increase in social engineering attacks, including a 20% growth in the prevalence of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks along with a 41% surge in phishing attacks from H2 2022 to H1 2023.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Unlike phishing links that are easy to check and block, QR code is a headache for security solutions. Malevolent uses of QR codes in email Fraudsters use QR codes to encode links to phishing and scam pages. The campaign was not very large scale and dwindled by around mid-2022.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. In 2022, we saw a major upgrade of the notorious Emotet botnet as well as the launch of massive campaigns by Emotet operators throughout the year.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 19, 2022

Phishing attacks aimed at stealing LinkedIn account credentials surged during the first quarter of 2022, says Check Point Research. The post LinkedIn was the most exploited brand in phishing attacks last quarter appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Javvad Malik

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Anyway, back in the hall, the session started and i joined as we're being told about a phishing attack and 2fa bypass @bsidesTLL. Lot's of pitfalls to look out for with 3rd party SSO sessions and crafty phishing methods. Originally tweeted by The Javvad Malik A.I. ( @J4vv4D ) on September 22, 2022.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 18, 2023

KnowBe4 releases overall 2022 and Q4 2022 global phishing test reports and finds business-related emails continue to be utilized as a phishing strategy and reveal top holiday email phishing subjects.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Thanks to various 2023 security reports, we know phishing attacks are now the most common form of cybercrime, with an estimated close to 3.5 In 2022, reports indicated that the worldwide average cost of a data breach amounted to $4.35 billion spam emails sent every day.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Microsoft warns of large-scale phishing attacks orchestrated with an open-source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit available in the cybercrime ecosystem Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kits are becoming an essential technology in the cybercrime ecosystem that is used by multiple threat actors to launch phishing attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this research, we analyze various types of threats, such as financial malware and phishing pages mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms, banking and payment systems, and discuss recent trends. Over the first ten months of 2022, Kaspersky prevented 38,596,555 financial phishing attacks. Methodology. Key findings.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Automating response to phishing attacks remains one of the core use-cases of SOAR platforms. In 2022, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) logged ~4.7 million phishing attacks. Since 2019, the number of phishing attacks has increased by more than 150% yearly.

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