Users Clicking on Multiple Mobile Phishing Links Increases 637% in Just Two Years
New data shows that phishing mobile devices as an attack vector is growing in popularity – mostly because it’s increasingly working… in exponential terms.
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Facebook and Microsoft Top the List of Most Impersonated Brands in 2022
As scammers continue to see massive returns on their phishing attacks, the use of impersonation with well-known brands continues to circle around the dominant players.
Cyber threats to EU transport sector sends urgent call for enhanced cybersecurity
Between January 2021 and October 2022, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) analyzed and mapped the cyber threats faced by the transport sector, identifying prime threats, analyzing incidents, assessing threat actors, analyzing their motivations, an…
Identifying AI-Enabled Phishing
Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO.
Threat actors are experimenting with QR codes
Hackers are diversifying attack methods, including a surge in QR code phishing campaigns, according to HP. From February 2022, Microsoft began blocking macros in Office files by default, making it harder for attackers to run malicious code. Data collec…
DotRunpeX: The Malware That Infects Systems with Multiple Families
By Deeba Ahmed
Researchers suspect that the malware may be operated by Russian-speaking groups, given the references to the language in its code.
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BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware
A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by threat actors.
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Report Shows Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Increase and Phishing Used as Initial Attack Vector in the Last Year
Secureworks has published a report looking at cybercrime over the course of 2022, finding that business email compromise (BEC) attacks nearly doubled last year. Additionally, attacks in which phishing was used as the initial access vector (IAV…
Warning Customers About Social Engineering.
It’s a familiar story: scam artists impersonate a trusted brand, a trusted business or a trusted authority in emails and on bogus sites designed to exploit that very trust to commit fraud. Generally, this isn’t the fault of the person or organ…
New Vishing Attack Spreading FakeCalls Android Malware
By Habiba Rashid
The malware campaign was noted to target users in South Korea.
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