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5 Ways Businesses Can Avoid Phishing Scams Online
5 Ways Businesses Can Avoid Phishing Scams Online The concept of phishing is gaining immense popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. People, by and large, are becoming victims of such fraudulent activities. Therefore, we have come up with 5 ways businesses can avoid getting trapped with emails that are meant to deteriorate their online identity. Based …
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Free Phishing-Protection Solution Amid The COVID-19 Outbreak
Free Phishing-Protection Solution Amid The COVID-19 Outbreak As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic progresses across the world, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the situation resulting in a spike of phishing scams on remote workforce and corporate systems. While working from home helps the cause of social distancing, it introduces additional risks to the organization. With …
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Free Phishing-Protection Solution Amid The COVID-19 Outbreak
Free Phishing-Protection Solution Amid The COVID-19 Outbreak
Email phishing attacks
1 in 4 Business Email Compromise Attacks Use Lookalike Domains to Trick Victims
Phishing Attacks Continue to Impersonate Trusted Brands to Deceive Potential Victims
The use of impersonation in phishing attacks helps to establish credibility and a sense of ease. New data shows exactly how the bad guys are using this tactic to their advantage. We’ve covered impersonation scams before where cybercriminals pretend to be your CEO, hospital personnel, or even the government. New data from cybersecurity vendor Agari …
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Phishing Attacks Continue to Impersonate Trusted Brands to Deceive Potential Victims
Phishing Attacks Continue to Impersonate Trusted Brands to Deceive Potential Victims
Phishing Scammers Send a Fake “Private Shared Document” as the Initial Attack Vector for Stealing LinkedIn Credentials
A new social engineering scam demonstrates how cybercriminals are both evolving their tactics while still using tried and true methods that just work to attain their goals. I’ve covered scams impersonating Office 365 I don’t know how many times. But it’s not very often you hear about a scam that uses LinkedIn as both its …
LinkedIn Shared Document Phishing Scam
Phishing Scammers Send a Fake “Private Shared Document” as the Initial Attack Vector for Stealing LinkedIn Credentials
Phishing Emails Are After Credentials
Phishing Emails Are After Credentials
Most Phishing Emails Are After Credentials
Most Phishing Emails Are After Credentials 57% of phishing emails in 2020 were designed for stealing credentials, according to Cofense’s most recent Annual State of Phishing Report. Meanwhile, just 12% of phishing attacks last year were used for delivering malware. Cofense believes this is because credential phishing emails are better at bypassing email security filters …
Phishing Campaign Stealing Email Credentials
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Microsoft Dominates as the Most Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks
Microsoft Dominates as the Most Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks
Microsoft Dominates as the Most Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks
Microsoft Dominates as the Most Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks
Would you get hooked by a phishing scam? Test yourself
As the tide of phishing attacks rises, improving your scam-spotting skills is never a bad idea Many people are confident in their ability to recognize phishing scams a mile away. In a recent survey, however, only 5% of the respondents had a 100-percent success rate in spotting simulated attacks aimed at stealing their sensitive information. …
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Phishing tournament finds employees falling prey to malicious emails
The Gone Phishing Tournament tested how susceptible people are to opening fraudulent emails and entering their login information. View Original Source Article HERE
How to protect your organization against targeted phishing attacks
Companies should realize that any user could be a target and use threat data to build a security awareness training program, says Proofpoint. View Original Source Article HERE
5 Tips to Avoid Spear-Phishing Attacks
Avoid Spear-Phishing Attacks With These 5 Tips The word “Burisma” is all over the news at the moment – it’s a Ukranian energy company that, according to some claims, was broken into by Russian hackers looking for sensitive data to steal. As you can imagine, the way the hackers got in is supposed to have …
These Subject Lines Are The Most Clicked For Phishing
Most Clicked Phishing Subject Lines To Link You Phishing comes in many forms of disguises to hook you. The most successful email lures don’t promise riches, but issue imminent cybersecurity warnings or urgent office messages, a report reveals. By now, even the least-seasoned email user knows not to open messages from Nigerian princes or vacationing …
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Phishing Today, Deepfakes Tomorrow: Training Employees to Spot This Emerging Threat
Cybercriminals are evolving their tactics, and the security community anticipates voice and video fraud to play a role in one of the next big data breaches — so start protecting your business now. Deepfake fraud is a new, potentially devastating issue for businesses. In fact, last year a top executive at an unidentified energy company …
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