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Fishy Business: What Are Spear Phishing, Whaling and Barrel Phishing?

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For threat actors, phishing embodies the holy trinity of goals: easy, effective and profitable. It’s no wonder that the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reports that phishing was the top method used by attackers to breach an organization. Of all the attacks that X-Force remediated in 2021, attackers used phishing in 41% of them. Because […]

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6 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Protect Against Them

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Phishing attacks don’t show any sign of slowing down. Per its 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report, PhishLabs found that total phishing volume rose 40.9 percent over the course of 2018. These attacks targeted a range of organizations, esp… Continue reading 6 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Protect Against Them→

North Carolina county falls for BEC scam, to the tune of $1,728,083

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The county could only claw back some of the $2,504,601 it paid to a scammer posing as a contractor working on building a new high school. Continue reading North Carolina county falls for BEC scam, to the tune of $1,728,083→

News in brief: Kashmir blocks social media; ‘whaling’ victims revealed; TalkTalk GDPR fine ‘would be £59m’

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