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Phishing attacks are on the rise ZDNet’s Danny Palmer sits down with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby to discuss the rising number of phishing attacks and preventative measures you need to be taking. Read more: https://zd.net/2C6rIVO A prolific spam campaign is attempting to infect victims with one of two infamous trojan malware families – and those behind …
IT professionals know the stakes are high when it comes to email phishing security. Phishing is deceptively dangerous because suspicious links are hyperlinked within an email text and can be hard to distinguish as dubious by an untrained eye. It takes only one click to affect or even compromise the whole network. This is complicated …
IT professionals know the stakes are high when it comes to email phishing security. Phishing is deceptively dangerous because suspicious links are hyperlinked within an email text and can be hard to distinguish as dubious by an untrained eye. It takes only one click to affect or even compromise the whole network. This is complicated …
The Israeli Police cyber unit arrested two brothers, Eli and Assaf Gigi, for allegedly perpetrating a multi-year phishing scheme and participating in a 2016 hack of Bitfinex. Israeli news outlet Ynet reports the two allegedly stole over $100 million in cryptocurrency. The infamous Bitfinex theft of 119,756 BTC shocked the crypto market with the largest loss …
Netflix has issued a warning to its customers in Ireland after a number of users reported receiving an email from the company regarding their accounts. The cybercriminals behind phishing attacks are always looking for new targets and it appears that Netflix users are their latest mark. A number of customers received an email that they …
Netflix has issued a warning to its customers in Ireland after a number of users reported receiving an email from the company regarding their accounts. The cybercriminals behind phishing attacks are always looking for new targets and it appears that Netflix users are their latest mark. A number of customers received an email that they …
Paying off the ransom. City officials at Riviera Beach, Fl. decided to pay a hacker 65 bitcoins, the equivalent of $600,000, to regain access to the city’s computer systems, which were compromised by the hacker. CNN reports that the city’s troubles began when an “employee clicked on a malicious email link three weeks ago.” Oregon’s …
The 2015 Anthem health care breach allowed access to over 78.8 million health care records and resulted in Anthem settling a class action lawsuit to the tune of $115 million. Investigators eventually traced the source of the breach to a spear phishing attack, a highly targeted campaign that successfully acquired the credentials needed to access …
Google’s email filters usually protect people from problematic email content, such as spam, malicious attachments, and phishing attempts. For example, a message with a virus-infected attachment will likely be blocked by G Suite’s filters, and the system will identify most junk emails and place them in the spam folder. However, on rare occasions, a phishing …
So many cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist on the internet nowadays that giving out your email address or phone number when signing up for a service is akin to giving someone your full name on the first date. Recently, a string of SIM swapping hacks have occurred; attacks in which hackers take control of your account by …
What is it about phishing emails that makes them so enduringly popular with the bad guys? The standard answer is they exploit fear, alarm and annoyance to persuade users to click on them, which explains the horde of campaigns using fictitious legal threats or warnings about bank accounts to get a foot in the door. …
At this point, you’re probably keeping an eye out for possible phishing messages in your email. You know the drill: If you have any doubts, don’t click links or download attachments. That’s difficult enough to adhere to in practice. Now, thanks to new findings from the threat intelligence firm Kaspersky, along with phishing texts, phishing …
A new phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be an alert from your email server that it has received an encrypted message for you. It then prompts you to login to a fake OneDrive site in order to read the message. As phishing campaigns are getting easier to spot, scammers are coming up with …
The City of Burlington has been defrauded out of more than half a million dollars due to a phishing email. In a release, the city said it happened when staff received what it describes as a “complex phishing email” requesting to change banking information for an established city vendor. An e-transfer of $503,000 was made …
You might not have known about KnowBe4 before, but you should now, because this morning the company announced a massive $300 million investment led by private equity firm KKR. The deal is based on a $1 billion valuation. Existing investors Elephant and TenEleven Ventures also participated in the round. The massive influx of cash comes …
Next year will likely become known for advanced phishing attacks on smart phones, according to cyber security expert Anna Collard, founder and managing director of Popcorn Training. As part of their cyber crime onslaught, cyber criminals can use artificial intelligence (Ai) and machine learning for social engineering, Collard said at the Moving to Mastery: Women …
Security awareness training vendor KnowBe4 has received a $300 million investment from private equity giant KKR to pursue global growth initiatives and platform development. The Clearwater, Fla.-based simulated phishing platform provider said the investment will help KnowBe4 build a human shield for clients against cyber threats and accelerate its rollout in new markets to help …
Phishing attacks remain a top tactic for targeting cyberattacks at business Area 1 Security CEO and former NSA spy Oren Falkowitz explains why tech, training, and education are the best methods for reducing the risk of phishing-based cyber-attacks. Phishing is as much a technical attack as it is a social engineering method—for any phishing attempt …
Phishing attacks remain a top tactic for targeting cyberattacks at business Area 1 Security CEO and former NSA spy Oren Falkowitz explains why tech, training, and education are the best methods for reducing the risk of phishing-based cyber-attacks. Phishing is as much a technical attack as it is a social engineering method—for any phishing attempt …
HMRC has received over 2.6m reports of phishing attempts over the past three financial years, according to a new Freedom of Information (FOI) request from a think tank. The tax office processed a total of 2,602,528 reports of phishing emails and texts as well as phone scams from 2016-19, according to Parliament Street. Although the …