Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Everyone thinks they can spot a phish. Whether it is an email, SMS text, or QRish phishing, people have an overinflated view of their capabilities to detect them.
A new summary by KnowB4, “What Makes People Click?” provides an insightful review and proves that people still click when curiosity gets the best of them.
According…
Just days after the FBI issued a private warning to the banking industry (read more here), the botnet network known as Necurs began a spamming campaign that targeted the banking industry. The activity was discovered by the security research firm Cofense. According to Cofense, the Necurs network started a concentrated spear phishing campaign…
According to a Proofpoint study that analyzed 160 billion emails delivered to 2,400 global companies at the end of 2017, 88.8 percent of organizations were targeted by at least one email phishing attack over the past year. This is an increase over its 2016 report conclusion of 75 percent.
In addition, more identities were spoofed…
We previously warned readers about the Locky ransomware, which is potent and designed to use phishing emails to lure users to click on links and attachments, including pdfs.
Now, researchers at Cylance have discovered that a new Locky variant, known as Diablo6, is a variant of Locky, but much more difficult to detect. According to…
