According to a recent report, 90% of all data breaches can be traced back to phishing attacks. How can businesses effectively protect themselves from this damaging cybercrime?
Known for their cyber crime product which infected over 41,000 victims in financial institutions, GozNym is going out of business with their key figures across Eastern Europe charged by U.S. federal court.
Since March 2019, hackers have been targeting the UN and affiliated humanitarian aid organizations with a sophisticated, mobile-centric phishing campaign to harvest Microsoft Office 365 login credentials.
The most recent Microsoft Security Intelligence Report indicates that phishing attacks are now by far the most frequent threat to the cyber landscape, increasing a massive 250% since the previous report.
Slack debuted its long-awaited direct messaging feature but within just a few days it was gone, pulled due to a technical oversight that created major security concerns.
419 million Facebook users are vulnerable to phishing attacks, SIM swaps and spam with their phone numbers exposed through a number of online databases found without password protection.
Entire populations are being manipulated through increasingly prevalent and hyper-compelling information typically spread via social media, designed to invoke emotion and exploit known biases and provoke a tsunami of misinformation.
Imperva reversed the phishing hook to hack the hackers, proving that these 'professionals' are just as susceptible – and in the process reveals some very important anti-hacker lessons.
Knowing the common manipulative tactics – exploiting every emotional hot button (anxiety, uncertainty, urgency) – used in phishing is the first step to understanding how to identify and deflect them; and it requires a repetitive process.
Study shows effects of phishing awareness training starts to wear off after four months and many employees will have lost what they learned almost entirely after six months.
