‘phishing’

Today, SlashNext Threat Labs observed a flurry of spear-phishing attacks targeting companies at the forefront of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics development. These attacks are active, and as of this writing, there are more than 800 spear phishing domains over 60 days that belong to the same threat actors. There is nothing more critical in the …

Phishing and fraud campaigns are on the rise due to the rapid shift to remote work across the enterprise. According to recent research by ZeroFOX, between January and April 2020, digital threat activity increased by nine percent, and fraud and scam incidents online increased by 60 percent. With every holiday, national event and even global …

By Jessica Davis December 16, 2020 – Recent spear-phishing campaigns are again targeting Microsoft Office 365 users in an effort to steal user credentials, while one campaign spoofs Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), according to recent reports from IRONSCALES and Abnormal Security. Nearly 200 million O365 users across the globe and particularly in the healthcare, insurance, financial …

GoDaddy is under fire for sending employees an email announcing $650 holiday bonuses. The email was actually phishing test. “To ensure that you receive your one-time bonus in time for the Holidays, please select your location and fill in the details by Friday, December 18th,” the email read. Employees who failed the phishing email test …

COVID-19 , Fraud Management Cybercrime , Governance Risk Management Researchers: Fraudsters Offer Lure of $600 Payment for Pandemic Relief Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • December 23, 2020     Phishing email designed to look like a message from the New York State Department of Labor (Source: Abnormal Security) A recently uncovered phishing campaign is spoofing messages …

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by Ray Schultz , Columnist, Yesterday Unhappy with your email results? Take a look at how well phishing artists are doing.Most of us are familiar with the broad term “spear phishing.” It covers a range of pathologies. Typically, spear phishers attempt to extract sensitive information from employees at a company, although others seek only to …

Fraud Management Cybercrime , Social Engineering Researchers: Fraudsters’ Domains Created to Steal Office 365 Credentials Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • December 16, 2020     Malicious domain designed to look like an Office 365 logon page (Source: Abnormal Security) A spear-phishing campaign detected earlier this month that uses messages that appear to originate with legitimate companies …

As two people for whom creating phishing emails constitutes legitimate employment (we are on the product team behind the Sophos Phish Threat phishing simulation service) we know we’re in the minority. Like our not-so-lawful counterparts, we spend our days using social engineering techniques to trick people into opening malicious messages and clicking on links they …

As two people for whom creating phishing emails constitutes legitimate employment (we are on the product team behind the Sophos Phish Threat phishing simulation service) we know we’re in the minority. Like our not-so-lawful counterparts, we spend our days using social engineering techniques to trick people into opening malicious messages and clicking on links they …

Vaccine “vendors” Check Point’s team also found evidence of a number of vaccine “vendors” plying their wares on dark web marketplaces, in one example advertising the opportunity to buy the approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for $250 in Bitcoin, shipping from Spain, the UK or the US. Its researchers entered into a dialogue with some of these …

Security researchers detected a new spear-phishing attack that’s using an exact domain spoofing tactic in order to impersonate Microsoft. On December 7, IRONSCALES revealed that it had spotted the campaign targeting Office 365 users. Those users primarily worked in the financial services, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, utilities and telecom industries. The email security provider took a …

Since COVID-19 arrived on the scene in the spring of 2020—a global health crisis that has upended the way we think of life and work—employers have been forced to reckon with the idea of a “normal” workplace, and, whenever possible, have moved work to the digital realm. SEE: Identity theft protection policy (TechRepublic Premium) Terranova …

Did you know that 22% of all data breaches in 2020 involved phishing attacks? During the times of this global quarantine, an unprecedented number of people have started working from home and plan to do so for the foreseeable future. This widespread transition to a remote workplace has helped in controlling the spread of COVID-19. …

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