Phishing Archive
Phishing is one of the greatest cyber security threats that organisations face. According to Proofpoint’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, 83% of organisations fell victim to a phishing attack last year. Meanwhile, Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 25% of …
The financial tech giant Revolut recently fell victim to a social engineering attack that exposed 50,150 customers’ personal data. Few details have emerged about how the breach occurred, but the incident was described as “highly targeted”, which indicates that a …
In ‘organisations that should know better’ news, the San Francisco-based tech giant Twilio, which provides text message notification services, was recently caught out by an SMS phishing scam. SMS phishing (or ‘smishing’) is a long-established technique among fraudsters. As with …
The first three months of 2022 saw more than a million reported phishing attacks, according to the APWG’s Phishing Activity Trends Report. It’s the most phishing attacks that have ever been reported in a quarter, and it follows a steady …
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been complemented by a wave of cyber attacks, demonstrating the influence that cyber warfare can have on the battleground. On both sides of the conflict, attackers have predominantly used DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) to knock …
Phishing attacks are among the biggest security threats that organisations face. Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 43% of all breaches involve phishing, while the total number of attacks is growing exponentially. Over the past year, we’ve been …
The run-up to Christmas can often be a boring time for workers, as they put off starting new projects before the end of the year and start counting down the days until their holiday begins. And with many employees continuing …
Cyber criminals have been luring people into handing over their personal details under the pretence of bidding for U.S. Department of Transportation contracts. The phishing campaign, which targeted organisations in the engineering, energy and architecture sectors, told recipients that the …
Security researchers at Microsoft are again warning users about phishing scams imitating SharePoint. The messages use Microsoft SharePoint in the domain name, and contain a “file share” request to access bogus “Staff Reports”, “Bonuses”, “Pricebooks” and other content that appears to …
