Webroot

JANUARY 19, 2022

With approximately 1 in 10 malicious sites hosted on a benign domain, could you spot the difference? Through a series of effective delivery modules, SAT provides employees with relevant information and knowledge on topics like social engineering, malware, compliance and information security. Fully customizable phishing simulator.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2024

Criminals are forever inventing new schemes for stealing personal data and funds, which are then quickly distributed to other scammers through automation and the sale of phishing tools. the attackers send a phishing link to the duped seller via a third-party messenger or directly on the message board. What’s more, in scam 2.0

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1], an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and data breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all events fall into one of eight major categories: Patterns over time in cybersecurity incidents. Password stuffing, cracking, guessing, spraying.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 10, 2020

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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IT Security Guru

MAY 20, 2024

Today, common cyber threats include phishing, ransomware, and malware attacks, each capable of significantly disrupting operations and compromising sensitive data. These sessions should cover critical topics like phishing, which tricks you into giving out sensitive information, and password security to protect your data.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

According to research published by credit reporting agency TransUnion , the average daily number of suspected digital fraud attempts was up 82 percent globally between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday (Nov 24–Nov 28) compared to the rest of the year (Jan 1–Nov 23) and 127 percent higher for transactions originating in the US. A word of caution.

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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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Google Security

MAY 2, 2024

Today, we announced that passkeys have been used to authenticate users more than 1 billion times across over 400 million Google Accounts. This post will seek to clarify these topics. Passkeys are a new industry standard that give users an easy, highly secure way to sign-in to apps and websites.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Obviously, the image is resized to the width of paragraphs on this blog, give it a click if you want to check it out at 1:1 size. Just having a similar name doesn't make a site "bad" (or potentially bad) in just the same way as not having a similar name doesn't mean the URL isn't pointing at a phishing site. More on that soon.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of eight major categories. Source: DBIR [1] “So what do these categories mean?”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Security awareness needs a new approach, not new content covering the same topics. Teaching them using a new video format or approach won’t improve their password hygiene.Security awareness needs a new approach, not new content covering the same topics. shows that you have a nearly 50% loss of retention after only 1 month.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

billion phishing e-mails get delivered every day. Defenders are up against Generative AI attacks that are linguistically complex and entirely novel scams that use techniques and reference topics that we have never seen before. Social engineering is a profitable business for hackers – according to estimates, around 3.4

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

These are questions I’ve been asking myself recently as AI and cybercrime have become hot topics in the tech industry, and for world leaders. From the potential benefits of using AI to detect and prevent cyberattacks, to the ethical concerns surrounding its use in cybersecurity, I’ll be covering a wide range of topics.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. 1) Utilizing stolen or brute- forced credentials; 2) exploiting vulnerabilities; and 3) using backdoors and Command and Control (C2) functionality. 22% involved phishing. The top 2 incident threat actions were DoS, and Phishing.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As a regular attendee of security conferences and contributor to security books, it's evident to me that the field remains a hot topic. Users' susceptibility to phishing attacks and social engineering tactics remains a persistent challenge. However, despite the significant investments of time and money, persistent issues persist.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The vulnerability allows hackers to create malicious phishing attacks and inject code into user’s browsers. The Infosec Institute recently wrote a topic on the subject, which can be read here. Take a look at VentureBeat’s refresher on the topic here. Anthem Cyber Attack. Internet Explorer Vulnerability Discovered.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 6, 2023

So it's fitting that a recent SecureWorld webcast, sponsored by Spirion, tackles the topic of "Does ChatGPT Belong on Your Cyber Risk Register? Check out the on-demand Remote Sessions webcast and earn 1 CPE credit for attending. Some Legal Perspectives."

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

A new Cloudflare phishing report notes that most of the 1 billion brand impersonation emails the company detected “passed” SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication protocols. At the same time, an organization is also quite likely to fall for business email compromise and phishing attacks from their vendors.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Internationally, there is no doubt that this predominantly serves to facilitate the detection and blocking of topics sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party, such as the events of June 4, 1989, in Tiananmen Square. Credential harvesting attacks via phishing emails are now a daily occurrence. Password leaks are commonplace.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Take a moment and do a quick search of stories on whatever topic is at hand. More Phishing Attacks. Phishing may seem like an ordinary part of online life, but it could also be the initial volley in a major cyberattack. It could target your employees, not your company. We’re all connected. More Disinformation.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Held in October, each week there will be a different focus on a key behavior: 1. Recognizing and reporting phishing 4. Updating software Cisco Duo is all about cybersecurity, so every week we’re going to publish a blog focused on those respective topics. Using strong passwords and a password manager 2.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. Fraudulent emails purporting to be from authoritative company sources are the main phishing attacks that employees fall victim to. Stolen Credentials.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

The current focus of most security awareness training initiatives is on phishing – and with good reason. Phishing is responsible for the bulk of breaches. KnowBe4 is the superstar of the field, having achieved Unicorn status as a startup that achieved a value of $1 billion. Custom phishing templates and landing pages.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 18, 2023

The informative booth sessions include Jason Keenaghan , Director of IAM Product Management, on ‘Self-Sovereign Identity: Gateway to Privacy-First User Experience’, a joint session with Microsoft and Sarah Lefavrais , Manager, IAM Product Marketing, on the ‘Executive Order 14028 x Phishing Resistant Authentication = True Zero Trust’.

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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. BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Part 1: Top threat categories. After examining topics such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework , LOLBins , and others, this release will look at DNS traffic to malicious sites. Such information can inform on where to dedicate resources, such as topics requiring security training or areas to build threat hunting playbooks.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this report, we cover PC and mobile threats as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on popular games. Additionally, we checked our database for gaming-related spam campaigns and phishing schemes that are used in the wild. 1. Apex Legends. 22. Battlefield 1. Methodology. 3. Chivalry 2.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

Executive summary In May 2020 EclecticIQ Intelligence and Research Team published a report ( 1 ) on phishing lures impersonating the maritime industry. This research offers new insights and update on the topic. The document is encrypted with the password “VelvetSweatshop”, a common technique employed by multiple threat actors.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

While the financial data of the customers is reportedly safe, the compromised billing details can be aptly exploited by cybercriminals for sophisticated spear phishing attacks aimed, amongst other things, to steal 2FA tokens from other systems. See details here.]

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2023

Phishing attacks Phishing attacks are used to access sensitive information. In the recruitment world, phishing attacks trick recruiters as well as candidates into revealing sensitive information, such as their Social Security numbers and passwords. 4 ways to prevent data breaches in recruitment 1.

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SecureList

AUGUST 24, 2022

In its new attack, the actor initiated the infection chain sending a spear-phishing email containing a macro-embedded Word document. We can summarize the whole C2 operation as follows: The actor sends a spear-phishing email to the potential victim to download additional documents. blogspot.com/2022/04/1.html"); filename. ".blogspot.com/2022/04/1.html");

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Researchers provide four attack scenarios that could follow a situation like this: Scenario 1: Tweets and their subsequent retweets gain global attention. So, a Twitter bot army can be used to spread misinformation on any topic ranging from vaccines to elections, thereby affecting millions across the globe.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

More than 1 billion suspicious messages and spam texts have been sent in the Philippines in 2022 so far. These messages run the usual range of phishing and fraudulent transaction attempts. It’s the very definition of a “blowing hot and cold” topic. Hitting spam with the registration hammer.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

Since cryptocurrencies were, are and will continue to be impactful technologies, surely NFTs are a topic worth exploring. Except, whereas each unit of a cryptocurrency is mutually interchangeable (1 Dogecoin always equals 1 Dogecoin, for instance), NFTs are designed to be completely unique.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 21, 2019

Among other things, this slowness means fewer clicked links in phishing emails. By now, we should expect to be seeing puppet shows on the dangers of phishing. They may offer continuous training programs to help thwart phishing attacks and malware infections. All that aside, the best solution is free.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

It provides extensive insights into cybersecurity topics to guide users through offensive strategies like Wi-Fi network attacks using specialized tools. The successful facilitation of responses generally includes these seven steps: Step 1: User Query A user interacts with the tool by entering a cybersecurity-related command or query.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2023

Of those respondents seeing an increase in attacks, 59% report increases in malware, 48% an increase in ransomware, and 43% have seen a rise in phishing attacks. 55% of respondents who experienced a recent cloud data breach said human error is the #1 root cause of cloud data breaches.

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