Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And another researcher told us that after the introduction of ChatGPT and its peers, they noticed a 27% increase in the linguistic complexity of phishing emails. Is that great because we can use to find vulnerabilities that need patching, or is it awful, because it will allow the cybercriminals to find vulnerabilities and exploit them?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

The US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating its representatives to steal sensitive info. The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is warning US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign. finrar-reporting[.]org, org, finpro-finrar[.]org,

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In this study, we analyzed how long phishing pages survive as well as the signs they show when they become inactive. In addition to the general data, we provided a number of options for classifying phishing pages according to formal criteria and analyzed the results for each of them. Life cycle of phishing pages. Introduction.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2022

Mostly as 2 completely separate topics, but also a little bit around Cloudflare's ongoing presence in Russia (with a very neutral view on that, TBH). Looking back on this video a few hours later, the thing that strikes me is the discussion around what appears to be a phishing page seeking donations for Ukraine.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The bogus site phishes the victim at what claims to be the voting stage. Scammers ask Steam users to join a team or league , and direct them to malware or phishing pages. The fake browser window sitting inside the real thing can make it very difficult to realise you’re looking at a phishing attempt.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 17, 2020

A digital panel discussion sponsored by MIT's Sloan CIO Digital Learning Series covered a range of topics from protecting remote workers to phishing to how to manage risk.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2021

discovered that fraudsters are sending out phishing emails pretending to be the U.K. What do Omicron phishing emails look like? After learning threat actors were posing as the NHS and sending out phishing emails offering a free Omicron PCR test, Which? Omicron phishing emails: just the latest Covid-19 aligned attack.

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Trend Micro

JULY 20, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has created an unlimited supply of news and topics for cybercriminals to utilize in their attacks, as well as major organizations to spoof. Learn what your organization can do to combat these timely threats.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Another noticeable phishing trend targeting the corporate sector was to exploit popular cloud services as bait.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The coronavirus, which has already led to the deaths of more than 1,000 people, is a topic that scammers are corrupting for their own purposes.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Year after year, phishing tops the list of the leading causes of data breaches. Security professionals have been sounding the alarm about phishing for many, many years — and companies are starting to take notice. Many organizations even test their workers by sending them dummy phishing emails to see who falls for them.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

The Security Implications of ChatGPT paper details how threat actors can exploit AI-driven systems in different aspects of cyberattacks including enumeration, foothold assistance, reconnaissance, phishing, and the generation of polymorphic code.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In last year's 2020 State of the Phish, we looked at high-performing customers in terms of two metrics: • Click/Failure rate: Percentage of users who engage with a simulated phish • Reporting rate: Percentage of users who use an automated phishing reporting tool to report phishing simulations from their email client.

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Hacker Combat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The cyberattack triggers are spear-phishing emails and theft of sensitive information via an embedded link. TEMP_ Heretic will then send customized phishing emails that contain a malicious link. They should also filter and block all phishing emails at the email gateway. How the Cybercriminal Launch the Attack.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to George Finney, it could be the difference between getting hacked through a phishing link or not. Her results from testing more than 400 users showed that frowning increased the odds for weeding out phishing emails. A new strategy for p hishing email detection. Take the assessment online.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Proofpoint has just released our 7th annual "State of the Phish" report. This survey leverages data from thousands of respondents around the world to provide a global mosaic of phishing threats and how organizations are responding. With this, phishing attacks continue to grow in volume and in sophistication.

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Spinone

MARCH 25, 2020

Phishing is one of the hacker’s trickeries, often used to infect Office 365 (or other cloud services) with ransomware. In this article, we’ll take a look at the main phishing types, ways to detect them, and how to avoid the potential damage they can inflict. What is Phishing?

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 21, 2020

The concept of phishing is gaining immense popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on recent Phishing records , almost 90 percent of companies have encountered spear phishing attacks. Based on recent Phishing records , almost 90 percent of companies have encountered spear phishing attacks. Bottom Line.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 30, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: Who’s hiring, freezing, and laying off, models predict 100-200K US deaths, April distancing, Adversarial Capital, Booz Russia, Google State Phishes, Worker Monitoring, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… .

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The ability to ask any question on just about any topic and have a very intelligent answer given has cybersecurity experts wondering if the infosec community is using it and, if so, for what; and, if so, how is it working for writing scripts and code or imitating phishing emails, for instance. I had it write a phishing email.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

” Crooks set up websites that look like related to the official movie, the websites are designed to deliver the malware or for phishing purposes. The post Crooks use Star Wars saga as bait in Phishing and malware attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Kaspersky experts. “It Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Here are the topics that I think will be top of mind in 2023, and what CISOs can do to prepare. Cyber insurance has become a newsworthy topic over the last 24 months, mainly due to the hardening of the market, as insurance products have become less profitable for underwriters and insurers’ costs have risen. CISO in the firing line.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: April 23 – Phishing attacks using the topic “Azovstal” targets Ukrainian entities. Ukrainian CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks on Ukrainian state organizations using the topic “Azovstal” and Cobalt Strike Beacon.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The APT group was spotted exploiting public-facing servers, it was observed sending spear phishing emails to deliver previously undetected backdoors. Analysis of the backdoors uploaded on VirusTotal revealed that threat actors utilized geopolitical topics as bait. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

Since then, research published in Crime Science has delved into the topic in-depth. Tailored phishing. Considering that ransomware claims a new victim every 14 seconds, we decided to explore the topic of deepfake ransomware. At the time, the potential criminal applications of this technology were limited. Is that a real thing?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2021

Furthermore, Microsoft has also covered various other topics in its playbook that include common attack methods including phishing, password spraying, and app consent; along with the security checklist that helps businesses in proactively securing their computer networks.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

Over the past year, the Cybereason Nocturnus Team has observed various trends among cyber criminals and nation-state groups leveraging various global events such as COVID-19 and other topical themes and trending issues as phishing content to lure their victims into installing their malware of choice.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

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

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CSO Magazine

MAY 5, 2022

A cyberespionage group whose targeting has historically been aligned with China's geopolitical interests has been targeting European and Russian entities using topical spear-phishing lures connected to the war in Ukraine.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

The website for Securielite, a fake company set up to phish job-seekers. The campaign just detailed by Google involved a fake security firm with a credible looking website (“Securielete”) and phishing messages across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn. Image from Google blog).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

There are so many factors to consider, from timing to appropriate topics to incentivizing users. Let's take a peek at some highlights from this year's 2021 State of the Phish report to help you successfully build an impactful security awareness program. Keep in mind that different phish require different skills.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 11, 2020

The IoT topic got some good engagement as did the fact that we "magically" dropped over a hundred active cases of COVID-19 in Australia today (sounds like the gov just reclassifying what's still considered to be an active case). Find out how it works and what you can do about it.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Some of the phishing emails from the current campaign were sent from IP addresses corresponding to a range that belongs to Powerhouse Management, a VPN service. However, experts found differences in the attachments used for phishing emails, the remote access trojans (RATs) used the operator’s C&C infrastructure.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

While passwordless offers a phishing-proof solution, there are requirements to deployment, like ensuring all users have access to a biometric on their device or a security key. And finally, organizations can combine a risk-based and phishing-proof authentication approach with device trust policies, like Duo’s Trusted Endpoints.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With the active development of telehealth, medicine will only become a more commonly used bait, just as the digitalization of banks has turned banking phishing into one of the most popularly used types of phishing. From June to December of 2021, we found more than 150,000 phishing attacks that used the medical theme.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Vishing: The Haunting Phone Call Vishing, or voice phishing , is the ghostly counterpart of email phishing. Phishing Awareness: Recognizing phishing attempts is like detecting a curse before it takes hold. It involves a caller impersonating a trustworthy entity to extract sensitive information or money from you.

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