The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lack of security awareness and education. Often, employees within organizations lack sufficient security awareness and education. This lack of knowledge makes them susceptible to phishing attacks, social engineering, and other cyber threats. Inadequate security testing.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Their themes touch on phishing, man-in-the middle attacks, cryptography and decryption, incident response, and more. Lured by the Sweet: Avoiding the Phishing Trap Similar to Hansel and Gretel, who were tempted by a candy-coated trap, phishing attacks entice victims with seemingly irresistible offers or legitimate-looking emails and websites.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In today's digital landscape, organizations seek to bolster security and mitigate phishing due to the growing cyber security threats. Cisco Duo has partnered with KnowBe4, a leader in security awareness training, by integrating our Single Sign-On (SSO) product with the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training platform.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Phishing is all around us. These drives can carry all sorts of malicious software. At the end of the day, it turned out that this was the work of the company's information security team, aimed at showing management how simply attackers could gather data for targeted phishing campaigns.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

In our most recent Remote Sessions webcast, Roger Grimes, computer security expert and Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4, gave a deep dive on phishing and how to properly mitigate and prevent phishing attacks. What is phishing? If you detect a phishing email, make sure to avoid all links, and report them!

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

LODEINFO has been observed engaged in a spear- phishing campaign since December 2019 by JPCERT/CC. They observed another spear-phishing campaign in March 2022. The malicious Word documents contained fake security notices that invited the victims to “Enable Editing” and “Enable Content,” which executes malicious VBA code.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 9, 2024

In today's digital age, phishing has evolved into a sophisticated threat capable of deceiving even the most technically savvy individuals. No longer confined to suspicious emails, phishing now encompasses voice-based attacks (vishing), text-based scams (smishing) automated with phishing kits, and deepfake technologies.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Key findings Phishing Banks were the most popular lure in 2024, accounting for 42.58% of financial phishing attempts. Amazon Online Shopping was mimicked by 33.19% of all phishing and scam pages targeting online store users in 2024. Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit. And for good reason. Tactics matter a lot, too.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cyber Security Awareness Month: Time to Act and Protect Trust. We’re approaching the end of Cyber Security Awareness Month , an annual event dedicated to increasing awareness of cybersecurity topics globally. Recognize phishing. Phishing is a popular tactic for cybercriminals. Tue, 10/25/2022 - 06:51.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

When considering a fully-featured and well thought out security plan , the human factor is an extremely important part of the equation, and arguably just as important as the technology component of the solution. In this article, we will take a look at cyber security awareness across an SMB organization.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This bad news from UScellular follows similarly troubling disclosures from networking software supplier SolarWinds and from email security vendor Mimecast. The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. Bill Santos, President and COO, Cerberus Sentinel.

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SecureList

JUNE 25, 2024

For example, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre reports that around 50% of SMBs in the UK are likely to experience a cybersecurity breach annually. Addressing cybersecurity requires a multifaceted approach, combining technological solutions with fostering a security-aware culture within the organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

This allows the attacker to gain full control over the victims browser to disable security features, install additional malicious extensions, exfiltrate data and even silently redirect users to phishing sites. This attack is extremely potent as there is no visual difference between a managed and unmanaged browser.

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Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s worth noting that blocking access to known ransomware sites is a recommendation that can be accomplished with network-level security. Don’t overlook security awareness training. One aspect of ransomware prevention not mentioned by NIST is the importance of security awareness training.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, a hacker may choose one vendor whose specialty uses open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify the most lucrative targets for phishing scams. Accessing and wreaking havoc in an organization can start with something as simple as a phishing email. Why the specific focus on defending against phishing?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

Based on data from more than 30,000 security incidents and more than 10,000 confirmed breaches, this year's report reveals a threat landscape where speed, simplicity, and stolen credentials dominate. Phishing accounted for nearly 25% of all breaches. Another challenge is the rapid nature of software development.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Social engineering schemes continue to flourish, making their way into company inboxes with the intent to mislead employees into downloading malicious software. These schemes appear fraudulent to those familiar with phishing. The post Thwarting Phishing Threats With Simulations appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Train your employees in security awareness, so they can recognize phishing attempts and know what they can and can’t do on company-issued hardware. Get your patches and updates asap Once you have established the hardware and software in your environment you need to perform effective patch and vulnerability management.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing (QR Code phishing) and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. Currently, most initial access attempts are carried out with social engineering, commonly phishing. Why is that?

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They’ve broken it down simply and curated a selection of free learning resources – training videos, email templates, virtual backgrounds, and sharable images – all from their security awareness content library. So, let’s begin by examining what secure web browsing is and why it matters.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Companies have come to depend on Software as a Service – SaaS — like never before. Related: Managed security services catch on. From Office 365 to Zoom to Salesforce.com, cloud-hosted software applications have come to make up the nerve center of daily business activity. Tools at hand.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to the latest IDG report, phishing attacks are on the rise. Invest in security awareness training. Prevent your devices from becoming compromised by common attack vectors by investing in security awareness training. Testing yourself regularly with phishing campaigns can help you learn what to avoid.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Scammers like to take shortcuts and know that it's easier to hoodwink people than it is to exploit software or hardware. Any organization with a well-guarded security perimeter is low-hanging fruit as long as its employees fall for phishing hoaxes. Urgency is a scammer's best ally, too.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2023

Best practices Just two easy technology fixes can help protect against a lot of cyberattacks: multi-factor authentication and deep e-mail scanning , in which incoming emails are automatically screened to avoid phishing and problems. Quite simply, investing in cybersecurity is a standard cost of doing business today.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Phish or Be Phished. Email phishing attacks are becoming more challenging to spot. Why did the email provider’s email anti-spam and anti-phish protection layer not quarantine the message? Even with a generic greeting, you would think an AL-powered anti-phishing protection engine would have blocked the message.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2022

A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. An alert came in one morning about a security alert generated by my device. I wondered if I might be impacted, so I bought software from Symantec to check it out.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Phishing scams. Vulnerabilities due to unpatched or outdated software. The biggest cybersecurity threats all have one thing in common: Users. Ransomware attacks. Misconfigurations. Insecure credentials. All of these threats can be traced back to poor user behaviors.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Such security audits require various techniques and tools to simulate classic steps of an attack, such as information gathering (reconnaissance), phishing, or privilege escalation. Patch management software. Basic phishing modules will hardly work with cybersecurity-aware employees. Best Scanning Tools.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2022

“With remote working the new norm, it’s easy to slip into bad habits,” says Juliette Hudson, Senior SOC Analyst at cybersecurity specialists Redscan “however, with cybersecurity risks being greater than ever and remote workers lacking office protections, it’s important to maintain a high standard of security awareness”. .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Author: Kian Buckley Maher SEG Bypassed: Microsoft The Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) has noted an increase in the number of malicious emails utilising this attack vector. In an attempt to bypass traditional file and text detection software, QR codes provide threat actors with a different tactic to encode malicious URLs.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. Amid the current threat landscape, Kaspersky has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the financial risks, pinpointing key trends and providing recommendations to effectively mitigate risks and enhance security posture. million detections compared to 5.04

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Spear Phishing While phishing remains one of the most prevalent methods cybercriminals use, spear phishing represents a refined form of the traditional phishing technique. As human errors have always been a significant cybersecurity risk and vulnerability, continuous security awareness education is paramount.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The threat actors are “quite clever” in using Google Alerts as an attack vector, said Ray Kelly, principal security engineer at WhiteHat Security. Typically bad actors would execute this type of attack through a standard phishing campaign, he said.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A growing threat: malvertising's new tactics Malvertising, or malicious advertising, involves cybercriminals embedding malware or phishing traps in online ads. Hackers are exploiting employees' trust in their workplace tools and portals by mimicking official-looking ads that lead to phishing pages.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Phishing, service disruptions, ransomware, and other attacks hijack data, destroy sources of income, steal identities and invade privacy, derail nations, and change the course of history. The hyperconnectivity of today’s world means that we have shared risk and a shared security posture. With it, come a constant evolution of risk.

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