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Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are the most costly and effective forms of phishing. In most cases, these attacks use highly research social engineering to go after the top brass in a company with a motive of stealing corporate dollars or … Continue reading BEC Attacks: How CEOs and Executives are Put at Risk
Business Email Compromise attacks are some of the most costly and vicious forms of phishing. Unlike the standard pray and spray approaches to phishing, they take a great deal of research and personalization to persuade a victim to hand over their … Continue reading BEC Attacks: A Closer Look at Invoice Scams
Everyone will at some point see a standard phishing email. Be it the 409 Scam (Nigerian Prince) or even a fake password reset, these are pretty easy to spot, and most people delete it without flinching. However, for the select few who have been on… Continue reading How Spear Phishing Makes BEC Attacks So Effective
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are among the most effective forms of phishing in our modern world. Regardless of the technology in place, the social engineering involved easily will bypass it and can trick even trained users.
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In our continued expansion and exploration of data from this year’s annual Phishing Trends and Intelligence report it’s time to take a closer look into free hosts. More specifically, the free hosts and domains that threat actors abuse … Continue reading Threat Actors are Increasing Their Use of Free Hosts
As Google Chrome and other web browsers further embrace HTTPS in a visual way, it’s becoming a requirement that threat actors use it, too. By the end of Q1 2019, more than half of all phishing sites have employed the use of HTTPS, now up to … Continue reading More Than Half of Phishing Sites Now Use HTTPS
Defining phishing is simple, right? Not exactly.
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If you have ever worked for an organization that uses Microsoft-based systems, there is a high likelihood that your IT or security team has implemented a policy that occasionally forces you to create a new password. Years ago it was every three mo… Continue reading Should User Passwords Expire? Microsoft Ends its Policy
Each year new phishing techniques result in more attacks successfully landing in user inboxes. In most cases, threat actors are no different than anyone else, and follow the hottest trends in an effort to be more relevant. During tax season they m… Continue reading The Rise in Mobile Phishing Attacks
The United States is once again, and for the foreseeable future, the most targeted country by threat actors’ phishing attacks. Making up an astonishing 84% of all phishing volume, the U.S. saw a single percent decline from 85% last year. But… Continue reading These Are the Top Most Targeted Countries by Phishing Attacks