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The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in a recent campaign. [Read More]
An analysis of more than 2.2 billion emails between April and June (Q2) 2019 exposes the current tactics, techniques and targets of contemporary attackers. [Read More]
A large number of spam messages recently sent by the same botnet were observed featuring randomized headers and even different templates, with some emails resembling phishing. [Read More]
A threat actor referred to as POISON CARP has targeted senior members of Tibetan groups via WhatsApp for around six months. [Read More]
Smarter phishing campaigns are popping up as cybercriminals leverage emerging technologies and tools like spoofing, automation, machine learning and social engineering. [Read More]
A Magecart threat actor has compromised the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users. [Read More]
An SMS phishing attack against many modern Android phones could route all internet traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. [Read More]
A recently observed phishing campaign targeting victims’ private email addresses has adopted a multi-stage approach in an attempt to avoid raising suspicion. [Read More]
A series of targeted attacks is attempting to exploit Remote File Inclusion (RFI) vulnerabilities to deploy phishing kits, Akamai warns. [Read More]
Following four years of self-funded fine-tuning in Europe, start-up security awareness firm CybeReady has expanded into the U.S. market with an initial funding round of $5 million led by Baseline Ventures. [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Phishing
DMARC is an email authentication standard designed to eliminate phishing and other types of attack that use spoofing to misrepresent an email sender identity.
Is the appropriate response to blame the victim when increasingly sophisticated attacks and the rise in credential thefts are making any user’s goal of protecting themselves much more difficult?
It’s hard keeping criminals from infiltrating networks, much less worrying that users will simply open the door to bad guys by letting their guard down.
While most of us aren’t asking for it, chances are high that we, too, have been—or will become—victims of a cyber attack.
While you may understand the risks that come from the use of social media, what options do you have to protect your organization against them?
As data moves online, social engineering techniques have become far more personalized, technologically advanced and ultimately successful.
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.
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