Collaborate Disseminate
Vishing (voice phishing) involves defrauding people over the phone. Vishing cases have increased almost 550 percent during 2021, and vishing attacks have overtaken business email compromise (BEC) as the second most reported response-based email threat … Continue reading Vishing attacks: What they are and how organizations can protect themselves
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
Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual “smash and grab” attacks we’ve seen recently from LAPSUS$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world’s biggest corporations on edge. Continue reading The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers
For the third year in a row, ransomware was the top attack type globally in 2021, despite some successes last year by law enforcement to take down ransomware groups. This was among the top findings of IBM Security’s latest research published in the tenth annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, a comprehensive overview of the global […]
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Social media as a threat channel saw a two-fold increase in attacks throughout 2021, according to a report from PhishLabs. In Q4 and throughout 2021, PhishLabs analysed hundreds of thousands of phishing and social media attacks targeting enterprises, t… Continue reading Social media attacks surged in 2021, financial institutions targeted the most
What is the most intimate relationship in your life—aside from your partner, your children or your parents? For many of us, it’s our mobile phone. It’s the last thing we see before sleep, and it’s usually the first thing in our hands each morning… Continue reading The six most common threats against the device that knows you best
By Deeba Ahmed
In BazaCall, a “vishing-like” method is used in which victims are told to call a particular phone number or their subscription will expire.
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The global shift to remote work has exacerbated the onslaught, sophistication, and impact of phishing attacks, according to Ivanti. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of respondents said their organizations have fallen victim to a phishing attack in the last … Continue reading 40% fell victim to a phishing attack in the past month
What does failing gloriously mean? Curt Klump, professional visher explains how being shutdown is actually a good thing, failing can be glorious.
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Amid an exponential increase in online fraud, an INTERPOL-coordinated operation codenamed HAECHI-I mobilized more than 40 specialized law enforcement officers across the Asia Pacific region. Over six months of coordinated intelligence collection and jo… Continue reading Operation HAECHI-I intercepts $83M in online financial crimes