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How a hacker weaponized flattery and took over our writer’s Twitter account.
PhishLabs began compiling attacks, lures, and other information tied to Mabna Institute threat actor group Silent Librarian starting in December 2017.
Guy who thinks he's smart gets taken in by a free-money phish.
Phishers use certificates for HTTPS because of course they do. "You could be having a private conversation with Satan."
A 1,300% increase in losses resulting from business email compromise is nothing short of an epidemic.
Here's something I hear quite a bit when talking about security things: Our site isn't a target, it doesn't have anything valuable on it This is usually the retort that comes back in defence of some pretty shady practices and in the mind of the defendant, it's a perfectly reasonable
Analysis of "phishing kits" and how they work.
There are three primary techniques to trick users into thinking a website link is real: URL shorteners, URL doppelgangers, and URL redirects.
A series of fraudulent emails convinced university staff to change electronic banking information for one of the university’s major vendors.
A treasure trove of PII from social networks and the public Internet is there for the taking.
One. Lousy. Click.
It's not easy keeping billions of devices safe from phishing attacks. Here's how Google pulls it off.
A recent attack on the accounts of Defense Department employees suggests how easily people can be duped into clicking on dangerous links.
Documents stolen from a prominent journalist and critic of the Russian government were manipulated and then released as a “leak” to discredit domestic and foreign critics of the government. We call this technique “tainted leaks.”
Good design suggestion at the end.
Attackers are coming up with creative ways to trick you into opening malicious files.
As the costs of complex cyberattacks increase, old-school email tricks are coming back in style.