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ProofPoint Phishing Attack Shows Why Every CISO Needs to Protect Against Brand Impersonation

Security Boulevard

A recent article on threatpost.com describes how researchers from Armorblox discovered a phishing campaign from bad actors impersonating the well-known security company Proofpong. These criminals targeted a global communications company with over 1,000 employees with a phishing email containing a link that led to a site that.

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CISOs, IT lack confidence in executives’ cyber-defense knowledge

CSO Magazine

Asked to rate from 1 to 10 how confident they were in CEOs and executives’ abilities to know how to recognize a phishing email, only 28% of respondents were confident. To read this article in full, please click here

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What Is the NIST Phish Scale?

SecureWorld News

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently developed a new method that will help prevent organizations and their employees from falling victim to phishing cyberattacks, which it calls the Phish Scale. A tool like the Phish Scale could be very useful for organizations in the fight against phishing.

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Skilling up the security team for the AI-dominated era

CSO Magazine

Forward-looking CISOs are already being called upon to think about newly emerging risks like generative AI-enabled phishing attacks that will be more targeted than ever or adversarial AI attacks that poison learning models to skew their output. To read this article in full, please click here

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Cyber insurer launches InsurSec solution to help SMBs improve security, risk management

CSO Magazine

As the frequency and severity of ransomware, phishing, and denial of service attacks have increased, demand for and conditions relating to coverage have evolved. To read this article in full, please click here

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Global Hack-for-Hire Service Caught Phishing Hundreds of Organizations

SecureWorld News

Clients hired a group of perpetrators to phish and hack their way across an amazing array of industry verticals like banking, education, energy, law, media, government, and more. We linked the phishing attempts to a custom URL shortener, which the operators used to disguise the phishing links.". Political enemies playing dirty?

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. For more on governance and policies, check out our article on IT security policies , including their importance and benefits, plus tips to create or improve your own policy.