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Imagine a cunning phisher: he knows his craft and sends your users an email appearing to come from your CEO that bypasses all your other technology. What would you do? One of our customers faced that very scenario and relied on Cofense TriageTM and the… Continue reading Phishing attack shut down in 19 minutes with Cofense Triage.
New additions to the TrickBot malware’s capabilities, observed by the Phishing Defence Centre, indicate that this malware tool is undergoing active development. The designers of this malware are still working hard to introduce new functionality includi… Continue reading Analysing TrickBot Doesn’t Have to be Tricky
A regional healthcare provider started using Cofense PhishMeTM so employees could learn to recognize different types of phishing. At first, the company sent all employees simulated phishes that were tough to recognize. No surprise, susceptibility was h… Continue reading By focusing on new hires, this healthcare company lowered its phishing susceptibility.
A global commercial development company needed to train employees to recognize and report phishing. The company launched Cofense PhishMeTM and Cofense ReporterTM, conditioning users to identify potentially malicious emails and empowering them to report… Continue reading After improving phishing detection, this company is focusing on response.
A global commercial development company needed to train employees to recognize and report phishing. The company launched Cofense PhishMeTM and Cofense ReporterTM, conditioning users to identify potentially malicious emails and empowering them to report… Continue reading After improving phishing detection, this company is focusing on response.
After introducing Cofense PhishMeTM and Cofense ReporterTM, a financial services company had reduced susceptibility to 10% or lower across its 10,000+ employees. At the same time, reporting had climbed to almost 50% for data-entry simulated phishes and… Continue reading For this financial services company, tougher simulations hardened phishing resiliency
Over the past couple of days, the Cofense™ Phishing Defence Centre has observed multiple campaigns that prompt the user to download what appears to be a life insurance invoice. The “invoice” gets delivered in the form of a zip file that contains… Continue reading Careful: This “life insurance invoice” contains the Ursnif malware
To lower phishing susceptibility, a major financial services company introduced Cofense PhishMeTM. By sending a strategic combination of simulated phishes, the company conditioned employees to recognize phishing scams. Susceptibility dropped to under 1… Continue reading This financial services company increased phishing reporting to over 50%
On February 27th 2007, while on the phone with my friend and co-founder Rohyt Belani, I typed the name phishme.com into GoDaddy™. We couldn’t believe our good luck and immediately registered it. As the co-founder who named this company PhishMe®,… Continue reading PhishMe is now Cofense.
In October of 2017 we blogged about a phishing campaign specifically targeting Brazilian Portuguese- speaking users. Back then, the campaign distributed a malicious Chrome browser extension. More recently, we have observed a wave of emails that have re… Continue reading Another wave of Brazilian malspam leads to banking trojan