That Email Isn’t from the New Jersey Attorney General
Earlier this month, state employees in the US state of New Jersey began receiving emails that falsely represented themselves as originating with the state’s attorney general.
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Large Language Models Will Change How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Revolutionize Email Scams
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) is the fine tuning AI engines like ChatGPT need to focus the scam email output to only effective content that results in a wave of new email scams.
1 in 8 Email Threats Now Make It Past Email Security Solutions
Phishing attacks that can evade detection by email scanners are improving their chances of reaching the inbox, thanks to an increase in the use of one specific attachment type.
New Vendor Email Compromise Attack Seeks $36 Million
The details in this thwarted VEC attack demonstrate how the use of just a few key details can both establish credibility and indicate the entire thing is a scam.
Why organizations shouldn’t fold to cybercriminal requests
Organizations worldwide pay ransomware fees instead of implementing solutions to protect themselves. The ransom is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the damage a ransomware attack can wreak. In this Help Net Security video, Gerasim Hovhannisyan, CE…
[Black Eye] The Lesson We Learned. Don’t Let this Happen to You. #DMARC
Mea Culpa. When you make a mistake, admit you made a mistake.
92% of Organizations Have Fallen Victim to Phishing as Nearly Every Org is Concerned with Email Security
New data shows that not only has just about every organization experienced a successful phishing attack, but that they are also paying the price in a number of impactful ways.
Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. According to Crowdstrike researchers, 40 percent of the patched vulnerabilities are remote code execution flaws, down from 48 percent last month; 31 percent are elevation of privilege flaws, up from almost 16 percent […]
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Three-Quarters of Organizations Have Experienced an Increase in Email-Based Threats
New data on the state of email security shows that nearly every organization has been the target of a phishing attack as attacks increase in sophistication.
Organizations need to re-examine their approach to BEC protection
BEC attacks are growing year over year and are projected to be twice as high as the threat of phishing in general, according to IRONSCALES and Osterman Research. 93% of organizations experienced one or more of the BEC attack variants in the previous 12…