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US government contractors targeted in phishing campaigns claiming to invite them to bid for projects at various government departments. [Read More]
Fintech company Revolut says more than 50,000 customers are impacted by a data breach that involved social engineering. [Read More]
American Airlines is notifying some individuals that their personal information has been compromised after some employees fell for phishing attacks. [Read More]
Ride sharing giant Uber is downplaying the impact from a devastating security breach that included the theft of employee credentials, access to the HackerOne bug bounty dashboard and data from an internal invoicing tool. [Read More]
Security Operations Center (SOC) platform provider Cyrebro has raised $40 million in Series C funding. [Read More]
The non-profit foundation is building a team to proactively identify and address security defects in the popular Rust programming language. [Read More]
The Silicon Valley company has raised a total of $135 million since its launch in 2016 as a provider of data encryption technology using Intel SGX. [Read More]
Dig Security’s latest financing comes as venture capital investors rush to place bets on startups jostling for space in the cloud data security space. [Read More]
Mobile phishing protection startup novoShield has emerged from stealth with an iPhone application. [Read More]
Microsoft says its security teams have detected zero-day exploitation of a critical vulnerability in its flagship Windows platform. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Phishing
Most organizations rely too heavily on their cybersecurity pros to protect them from threats, ignoring the painful reality that human error is by far the most common cause of security breaches.
Leveraging humans for detection makes it hard for the attackers to predict whether or not their malicious emails will be identified and using technology to automate response provides scale and speed in resolution.
Vishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, combining one-on-one phone calls with custom phishing sites.
The barriers to entering the field of cybercrime have been significantly lowered, and for modest amounts of money, would-be scammers can buy high-quality phishing tools online.
Most of today’s cyber-attacks are front ended by phishing campaigns. So, what can organizations do to prevent their users from falling for the bait of these attacks?
Many of us are familiar with the two most common types of socially engineered attacks – phishing and spear-phishing – but there are many more to be aware of.
Domain name typo-squatting is an established tactic in the world of cybercrime.
Cybercriminals rely on tried and trusted methods for phishing; as long as there is even a four percent chance that phishing techniques will be successful, they will continue to use them.
“Evasive phishing" is not a term much heard, but we all will—and need to—start talking a lot more about it than we have in the past.
BEC is becoming increasingly profitable for threat actors as organizations are making it easy for adversaries to gain access to the valuable information that sits within these inboxes.
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