Security News > 2019 > June > Threat actors are doing their homework, researchers identify new impersonation techniques

There is an increase in three main areas: spoofed phishing attempts, HTTPS encryption in URL-based attacks, and cloud-based attacks focused on publicly hosted, trusted file-sharing services, FireEye found, after analyzing a sample set of 1.3 billion emails. Example CEO fraud email directed to payroll Phishing attacks rose by 17% A typical phishing email impersonates a well-known contact or trusted company to induce the recipient to click on an embedded link, with the ultimate goal of … More → The post Threat actors are doing their homework, researchers identify new impersonation techniques appeared first on Help Net Security.

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