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Account takeover attacks ramping up, leading to explosion of phishing
2018-09-20 15:40

ATO attacks steal a person's credentials and use them to send emails from their account, according to a recent Barracuda Networks report.

Manipulation tactics that you fall for in phishing attacks
2018-09-20 06:00

It’s 6 p.m. on a Friday. Just as you finish packing up for the day, an email from your boss pops up on your phone asking why an urgent payment didn’t go out earlier in the week. He’s tied up in a...

The top 11 phishing email subject lines SMBs should look out for
2018-09-18 18:23

Phishing is the biggest threat facing SMBs, according to the 2018 Webroot SMB Pulse Report.

On the hook! Phishing trip nets “Barbara” 5 years and whopping fine
2018-09-17 11:41

The romance and business email compromise scammer pled guilty to fraud amounting to $25m.

Cobalt cybercrooks phry up phishing campaign to phling at phinance orgs
2018-08-31 09:42

Emails hiding dodgy scripts designed to plant backdoors A notorious hacking group suspected in attacks across dozens of countries has launched a campaign against banks in eastern Europe and Russia.…

If you have to simulate a phishing attack on your org, at least try to get something useful from it
2018-08-29 09:22

Step 1: let the higher-ups know Just when it looked as if the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) had finally got one over on the phishing hackers that had been owning it since 2016, the...

False Alarm: Phishing Attack Against DNC Was Just a Test
2018-08-24 11:03

Unannounced Exercise Stoked Voter Database Hacking FearsA website that appeared to be part of a phishing campaign designed to gain access to the Democratic National Committee's voter database has...

DNC: Highly Publicized ‘Phishing Attempt’ Was Only a Security Test
2018-08-23 13:39

DNC officials and Lookout believed a spoofed site was built to harvest authentication details for the Democratic voter database.

Attack on DNC Part of Simulated Phishing Test
2018-08-23 12:29

A recent phishing attack aimed at the Democratic National Committee’s voter database was actually part of a simulation, researchers and representatives of the Democratic Party confirmed. read more

Week in review: Office 365 phishing, compromising networks with malicious faxes
2018-08-20 00:30

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: AT&T sued for enabling SIM swap fraud A cryptocurrency investor is suing AT&T because criminals were able to empty his...