Collaborate Disseminate
Since 2015, PhishLabs has and continues to track how threat actors abuse HTTPS or SSL certs. In particular, threat actors often use HTTPS on their phishing sites to add a layer of legitimacy, better mimic the target site in question, and reduce be… Continue reading Abuse of HTTPS on Nearly Three-Fourths of all Phishing Sites
Across the cybersecurity industry, white papers and reports typically highlight high-level trends related to cyber threats. However, what is often overlooked is a more granular analysis that focuses on individuals within an organization. More spec… Continue reading Reporting Cyber Threats: Executives at Risk
In the past few weeks, our team highlighted how social media is abused by threat actors seeking to steal credentials and to administer phishing attacks. While these are both two of the most prominent cybersecurity threats distributed through socia… Continue reading Social Media Phishing: Beyond Credential Theft
Today’s marketing organization uses countless SaaS-based tools and platforms that live outside of an organization’s network. As their digital footprint grows, so does their potential for digital risks targeting their enterprise, brands… Continue reading Beyond Marketing: Getting Ahead of Brand Issues
Every second, 5,787 tweets are published. Every minute, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. These are just two of the more popular social networks, and among these data points are the occasional references to a specific organization, its b… Continue reading Marketing Teams Are Not Equipped to Monitor Social Media Threats
This week, APWG released its findings from Q3 that compiles insights from their member companies and provides an analysis of how phishing is changing. The key findings from the latest report show that phishing attacks continued to rise throughout … Continue reading APWG: Two-Thirds of all Phishing Sites Used SSL protection in Q3
At the height of social media adoption, users willingly shared everything from the lunch they just ate to the exact places they visited throughout the day. While some of this has been reduced as consumers learned how sharing private information co… Continue reading Social Media Account Takeover is as Vicious as a BEC Attack
This week APWG released its findings from Q2 of this year that compiles insights from their member companies and provides an analysis of how phishing is changing. This quarter’s report shows that phishing attacks continue to increase, both SaaS an… Continue reading APWG: Phishing Continues to Rise, Threat Actors Love Gift Cards
On a daily basis, around 42% of the global population, or 3.2 billion people, uses some form of social media. Of that number, people spend a daily average of 2.2 hours on these networks, too. These two numbers are exactly why threat actors continu… Continue reading The Vast Social Media Landscape for Phishing Threats
Today, social media is a daily medium for communication for much of the modern world, and adoption only continues to grow. Because of this, much like how threat actors started to target mobile users, they have begun to abuse social media, too.
The… Continue reading Why Social Media is Increasingly Abused for Phishing Attacks