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We’ve had occasion to write about ChatGPT’s potential for malign use in social engineering, both in the generation of phishbait at scale and as a topical theme that can appear in lures. We continue to track concerns about the new technology as…
Social media is designed of course to connect, but legitimate modes of doing so can be abused. One such case of abuse that’s currently running involves Linktree, a kind of meta-medium for social media users with many accounts. If you’re unfami…
Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/phishing-intro-to-build-resiliency/ While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking […]
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As dwell times drop, and notifications of attack by third parties increase, organizations are getting better at defense while attackers evolve and malware proliferates.
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New data shows that cybercriminals started this year off with a massive effort using new techniques and increased levels of attack sophistication.
KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q1 2023 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests and reflect the shift to IT and online service notifications such as laptop refresh or account suspension notifications that can affect end users’ daily work. Phishing emails […]
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Google released the threat horizon report for April 2023, which showed multiple methods used by threat actors for evading security systems. Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) and Mandiant researched a list of techniques and methods used by threa…
Cybercriminals have been leveraging social engineering techniques to impersonate the popular US-based digital payments network Zelle and steal money from unsuspecting victims, according to Avanan. The fake Zelle email (Source: Avanan) The phishing emai…
Affinity phishing scams are ones in which criminals cultivate trust in their prospective victims by trading on common background, either real or feigned. Thus a fraudster might claim a common religion, a shared military background, membership …
A method used in domain impersonation attacks, combosquatting aids the threat actor by using a modified domain name to further increase the credibility of an attack.