Collaborate Disseminate
Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41 percent of all email-based scams targeting employees, during Q2 of this year. This is according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends &#… Continue reading Response-based attacks make up 41% of all email-based scams
Abnormal Security released a which report explores the current email threat landscape and provides insight into the latest advanced email attack trends, including increases in business email compromise, the evolution of financial supply chain compromis… Continue reading Credential phishing attacks skyrocketing, 265 brands impersonated in H1 2022
A massive phishing campaign has been targeting Office 365 (i.e., Microsoft 365) users in over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 and successfully bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) set up to protect the accounts. The attackers use proxy… Continue reading Phishers steal Office 365 users’ session cookies to bypass MFA, commit payment fraud
Abnormal Security released new research that showcases a rising trend in financial supply chain compromise as threat actors impersonate vendors more than ever before. In January 2022, the number of business email compromise (BEC) attacks impersonating … Continue reading Threat actors increasingly use third parties to run their scams
The APWG’s Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that in the first quarter of 2022 there were 1,025,968 total phishing attacks—the worst quarter for phishing observed to date. This quarter was the first time the three-month total has exceeded o… Continue reading Phishing reaches all-time high in early 2022
Armorblox released a report which highlights the use of language-based attacks that bypass existing email security controls. The report uncovers how the continued increase in remote work has made critical business workflows even more vulnerable to new … Continue reading Language-based BEC attacks rising
Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs. In Q1 2022, Agari and PhishLabs dete… Continue reading Vishing cases reach all time high
Phishing attacks began years ago as simple spam, designed to trick recipients into visiting sites and becoming customers. In the meantime, they have morphed into a worldwide criminal industry. In recent years, threat actors have refined their methods o… Continue reading Nothing personal: Training employees to identify a spear phishing attack
Results from an Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) survey are encouraging, as 71% of organizations report having been victims of payments fraud activity in 2021, lower than the 81% reported in 2019 and the lowest percentage recorded since 20… Continue reading Organizations must be doing something good: Payment fraud activity is declining
Egress announced the results of a report, which revealed that 56% of IT leaders say that their non-technical staff are only ‘somewhat’ prepared, or ‘not at all’ prepared, for a security attack. Six hundred IT security leaders across a broad range of in… Continue reading Human activated risk still a pain point for organizations