including passwords or credit card details. They achieve this by posing as a reliable source, frequently through suspicious emails, messages, or phony websites. These false emails may seem quite convincing, but their purpose is to steal your sensitive data. Phishing attacks can have major repercuss...
Each security breach type presents unique challenges and risks, from phishing attacks to social engineering vulnerabilities. By staying informed about the latest security trends andimplementing robust security measures, you can enhance your defense against cybercriminals and safeguard sensitive information. Se...
Multi-stage cyber attacks, characterized by their complex execution chains, are designed to avoid detection and trick victims into a false sense of security. Knowing how they operate is the first step to building a solid defense strategy against them. Let's examine real-world examples of some o...
Expert guidance abounds for enterprises to protect themselves against ransomware, phishing and other cyberattacks, but sometimes that advice is more effective when dispensed with real-world examples for specific scenarios. In this case, the targeted scenarios are ransomware and phishing exploits in t...
Nov, "Spear-Phishing in the Wild: A Real-World Study of Personality, Phishing Self-Efficacy and Vulnerability to Spear-Phishing Attacks," 2015, https://ssrn.com/abstract=2544742.T. Halevi, N. Memon, and O. Nov. (2015, January) Spear-phishing in the wild: A real-world study of ...
Incident response is still largely a human response. Multiply an outdated response plan by the many human errors that can innocently occur during response and you have a recipe for potentially cataclysmic results in the threat event aftermath. Use the fo
In addition, organizations should know vulnerabilities are not the only security concern in the cloud-native world. Cloud environments are also vulnerable to other types of attacks and risks, such as phishing, social engineering, misconfigurations, and data leaks. Thu...
I want to talk about the real world, where authentication protocols are extremely insecure, and I'm going to try and explain to you why phishing is so profitable. Why does phishing work? Basically because con artists are really good at persuading people to do really dumb things - and we ...
Even the Experts Fall for Phishing In a study by Kapost it was found that 96% of executives worldwide failed to tell the difference between a real and a phishing email 100% of the time. What I am trying to say here is that even security conscious people can still be at risk. But ch...
Phishing mailers continuously tweak their content patterns to skirt being detected by email filters. A powerful machine learning model can nevertheless detect a 2-10% variation and empower the filter to block the same. ML is used to demarcate emails based on the following filtration techniques: ...