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Security awareness training isn’t working to the level it needs to. Social engineering, however, is getting better. Why doesn’t awareness training work, and how can we improve it?
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Smishing is a type of phishing attack that’s conducted using text message services. These types of scams can target people in their personal and professional lives. Attackers can imitate friends, strangers and organisations, but they can also appear as colleagues and service providers. Indeed, with the rise in remote working and the reliance on mobile devices and instant messaging clients to stay in touch, work-based smishing has become a major threat. According to Proofpoint’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, employees at 74% of organisations were sent fraudulent text messages in the previous year. How smishing works Smishing uses many
The post What is Smishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.
By Waqas
According to Fortinet Labs, third parties have already purchased top-level domains (TLD) such as Joomla.zip and MSNBC.zip, which could potentially be a breach of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).
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By Deeba Ahmed
The fake flyer was emailed on 4 May 2023 to multiple diplomatic missions in Kyiv.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Phishers Targeting Diplomats in Kyiv with Fake 2011 BMW Flyers
The average number of scam resources created per brand across all regions and industries more than doubled year-on-year in 2022, up 162%, according to Group-IB. Additionally, the total number of scam pages detected by Group-IB in 2022 was more than thr…
The WormGPT case: How Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the capabilities of cybercriminals and allows them to launch sophisticated attacks. Researchers from SlashNext warn of the dangers related to a new generative AI cybercrime tool dubbed WormGPT. Since chatbots like ChatGPT made the headlines, cybersecurity experts warned of potential abuses of Generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]
The post WormGPT, the generative AI tool to launch sophisticated BEC attacks appeared first on Security Affairs.
The quantity of emails involved in scams and cyber attacks continues to grow as credential theft and response-based phishing persist as top attack variants.
While trends in phishing frequently evolve, Facebook and Microsoft’s collective dominance as the most spoofed brands continues, according to Vade. Facebook and Microsoft’s collective dominance as the most spoofed brands continued into H1 2023, with the…
ChatGPT-like black hat tools capable of spoofing and malware attacks are appearing in cybercrime forums. Here’s how to defend your organization.
The post Black Hat AI Tools Fuel Rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.
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LokiBot, a notorious Trojan active since 2015, specializes in stealing sensitive information from Windows machines, posing a significant threat to user data.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Attack Drops LokiBot Mal…