Collaborate Disseminate
Email-based attacks have evolved beyond traditional spam and phishing attempts. Cybercriminals now employ sophisticated tactics such as spear-phishing, whaling, and business email compromise (BEC), posing a significant threat to businesses of all sizes… Continue reading Uncovering the hidden dangers of email-based attacks
A clever phishing campaign aimed at stealing users’ business email account credentials by impersonating OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, has been spotted by Inky researchers. The attack ChatGPT has quickly gained popularity and is … Continue reading Phishing campaign targets ChatGPT users
After news broke late last week about Silicon Valley Bank’s bank run and collapse, security researchers started warning SVB account holders about incoming SVB-related scams and phishing attempts. Another reminder: just because caller ID says FDIC… Continue reading SVB account holders targeted with phishing, scams
INKY researchers disclosed the latest variant of the tried-and-true phone scam, a low-tech phone scam where attackers extract personal information by sending out spoofed emails from what appears to be a legitimate source, with no suspicious links or ma… Continue reading How attackers abuse Quickbooks to send phone scam emails
INKY announced its partnership with GoDaddy, the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs. This strategic partnership brings INKY’s anti-phishing and email assistant offering to customers of GoDaddy’s Advanced Email Security (AES) solut… Continue reading INKY partners with GoDaddy to enhance email security for businesses
Phishers are trying to harvest credentials for Office 365 or other business email accounts by impersonating the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Inky‘s researchers have warned. The ploy? The DOL is ostensibly inviting companies to submit “pr… Continue reading Phishers go after business email credentials by impersonating U.S. DOL
Shortly after Congress took action on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, hackers posing as U.S. Transportation Department officials offered fake project bid opportunities to seduce companies into handing over Microsoft credentials, researchers say. The ploy included layers of attempts to disguise the malicious appeals as authentic government solicitations, and even eventually led the would-be victims back to the actual Department of Transportation website, according to a Wednesday blog post from INKY, an email security company. “The basic pitch was, with a trillion dollars of government money flowing through the system, you, dear target, are being invited to bid for some of this bounty,” wrote Roger Kay, vice president of security strategy for the firm. Never mind that the infrastructure legislation hasn’t fully worked its way through Congress yet, nor that few of the phishing campaign’s targets would even be eligible for the infrastructure projects that bill would fund. It’s the […]
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Emails referencing the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and looking like they’ve been sent from the corporate IT help desk have been hitting employees’ inboxes and asking them to download and run a “ransomware system update.”… Continue reading Beware of “Ransomware system update” emails!
Phishers have been exploiting people’s fear and curiosity regarding breakthroughs and general news related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the very start, and will continue to do it for as long it affects out private and working lives. Cybercrimina… Continue reading Phishers’ perfect targets: Employees getting back to the office
INKY Technology Corporation announced the company’s $20 million Series B round of funding, led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, to accelerate enterprise adoption, global expansion and its innovation roadmap. Ins… Continue reading INKY raises $20M to accelerate enterprise adoption, global expansion and its innovation roadmap