Collaborate Disseminate
With all of the focus on ransomware attacks, it’s easy to forget about the damage done by email phishing. Yet, new research from Vade shows that phishing has seen a meteoric rise in the first half of 2021, including a 281% increase in May and a 284% i… Continue reading Phishing Used to Get PII, not Just Ransomware
Disinformation is rife on social media. The latest scandal is a Russian PR firm paying YouTubers to flog lies about vaccines killing people.
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A number of mobile apps give anyone with a smartphone and a few minutes of time on their hands the ability to create and distribute a deepfake video. All it takes is a picture of, say, yourself that you’d swap with an actor in a movie or a telev… Continue reading Deepfakes: The Next Big Threat
Domains impersonating companies and their brand names still pose a significant threat—research from Digital Shadows released today found that on average 1,100 fake websites are registered against individual organizations annually. And with commercial … Continue reading Spoofed Domains Still a Persistent Threat
Remember WYSIWYG? What you see is what you get. That was a simpler time in technology; you knew what the end result would be during the development stage. There were no surprises. Technology moved on, though. Now, the mantra should be, “don’t automati… Continue reading Propaganda as a Social Engineering Tool
During COVID-19, threat actors used fear of the virus and hope of a vaccine to trick unwitting victims into downloading malware or giving up their credentials. It was a master class in social engineering, one that put an organization’s security postur… Continue reading Reaction to Social Engineering Indicative of Cybersecurity Culture
Iran’s Nantaz nuclear centrifuge facility went dark yesterday. Sources say it was an Israeli cyberattack—another one. But something doesn’t add up.
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