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There are many ways to be socially engineered and phished, including email, websites, social media, SMS texts, chat services, phone calls and in-person. These days, it is hard to sell something online, date or rent a vacation home without bein…
Using credibility-building imagery and creating a need for the user to click what may or may not be perceived as an image is apparently all it takes to engage potential phishing victims.
Using an external platform trusted by potential victims is proving to be a vital tool in the cybercriminal’s arsenal. New data shows the state of the threat and who’s at risk.
I get UPS phishing spam on my phone all the time. I never click on it, because it’s so obviously spam. Turns out that hackers have been harvesting actual UPS delivery data from a Canadian tracking tool for its phishing SMSs.
New research has found over 1 in 3 UK&I workers are likely to click a phishing link, according to KnowBe4’s 2023 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report. The report measures an organisation’s Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP), which shows the likelihood employees will be duped by phishing or a social engineering scam. The overall baseline for 2023, which […]
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A threat actor tracked as “Muddled Libra” is using the 0ktapus phishing kit to gain initial access to organizations in the software automation, business process outsourcing, telecommunications, and technology industries, according to researche…
The subject of whether ChatGPT can be used to create phishing sites and if it can also be used to accurately detect them has been discussed by security researchers. This experiment has been carried out to see how much cybersecurity information ChatGPT …
In this crimeware report, Kaspersky researchers provide insights into the Conti-based LockBit Green variant, ransomware samples for macOS, FreeBSD, etc. and phishing campaigns targeting organizations.
ChatGPT can be used to generate phishing sites, but could it also be used to reliably detect them? Security researchers have tried to answer that question. Can ChatGPT detect phishing sites based on URLs? Kaspersky researchers tested 5,265 (2322 phishi…
We propose strategies of how New Zealand organisations can close their security gaps with protection against phishing, stolen credentials and other threats.