IT Sec News updates – Phishing Attacks

August 9, 2023
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U.S. Banks Vulnerable to Mass Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks – Yahoo Finance

With social engineering and phishing attacks skyrocketing, the report catalogs data on the most prevalent cybersecurity attack route: employees.

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KnowBe4 Phishing Test Results Reveal Half of Top Malicious Email Subjects Are Human …

KnowBe4 (www.KnowBe4.com), the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, …

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Notorious phishing platform shut down, arrests in international police operation – Interpol

The PaaS platform sold 'phishing kits' to hackers seeking to defraud Internet users through email scams where victims typically receive an email with …

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Interpol takes down phishing-as-a-service platform used by 70,000 people

The phishing-as-a-service platform 16shop was taken down Tuesday in a global investigation led by Interpol.

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Interpol takes down 16shop phishing-as-a-service platform – Bleeping Computer

A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) …

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KnowBe4's New PhishER Plus Uses Crowdsourced Human Intelligence and AI to … – Fox 8 news

The triple-validated phishing threat feed automatically blocks phishing attacks before they make it into users' inboxes.

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Record 3 bil. yen stolen via phishing in Japan in 1st half of 2023 – Kyodo News

Phishing emails and text messages typically impersonate financial institutions and redirect users to counterfeit websites, ostensibly to address …

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Phishing-resistant authentication a key to breach prevention – SecurityBrief New Zealand

According to Yubico, the provider of hardware authentication security keys, equipping employees with phishing-resistant authentication methods is …

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Kyiv Cyber Defenders Spot Open-Source RAT in Phishing Emails – GovInfoSecurity

These phishing mails come with a .chm file – a compressed HTML document in a proprietary Microsoft format primarily used in software documentation.

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Group-IB supports international police operation targeting 16shop, a popular phishing-as-a …

This feature allowed the buyers of these phishing kits to target victims almost anywhere in the world. Group-IB's Cyber Investigation unit supported …

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