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Gold Galleon: Nigerian hackers target global maritime shipping businesses and their customers in BEC attacks [Read More]
Microsoft has rolled out a new Windows Defender Browser Protection extension to help Chrome users stay safe from malware and phishing websites. [Read More]
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Ukrainian national suspected of being the mastermind of a gang that used Carbanak malware to steal more than €1 billion from banks arrested in Spain [Read More]
PhishMe has been acquired by private equity firms in a deal that valued the company at $400 Million, and changed its name to Cofense. [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Phishing
Monitoring social media is a daunting task. Enterprises must have risk management plans in place to monitor, identify, combat and remediate social media-based threats.
For all the benefits that social media networks provide, organizations must recognize that they present a double-edged sword when it comes to security.
Many continue to click on links or attachments sent via email without taking any steps to verify the origin of the email or the validity of the link or attachment. It only takes one click to for an attacker to establish a foothold in the target’s systems.
For a month, I kept all of my spam, then looked at the subject matter, where it was from and tried to analyze some additional characteristics of the spam.
Social engineering attacks can happen at any time. Here are some strategies you can use to help reduce the chances of a successful social engineering/phishing attack you or your organization.
What do you do when your organization has been victimized by a phishing attack? If you wait until you are actually under an attack it is too late.
Organizationally, there are things you can do to help avoid becoming a victim, and to minimize damage if you are victimized.
The semiannual “Global Phishing Survey” from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) provides powerful insight into what is happening in phishing worldwide.
Cooperation in the underground economy could enable a fraudster in Russia who masters the art of phishing to team up with another fraudster who already has the infrastructure of cashing out compromised online banking accounts of US banks.
Businesses usually don’t think about social engineering when securing company data. It used to be believed that social engineering was reserved for governments and organizations with enemies. That's not the case anymore.
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