social engineering
Business Email Compromise Fraud: Social Engineering News
Social-Engineer | | bec, BEC fraud, Buisiness email compromise, managed phishing service, Phishing, Protect Yourself, social engineer, social engineering
Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing fraud, consistently tops the FBIs list of most financially damaging online crimes. […] ...
Best Strategies For Stopping Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scams
Also known as a 'man-in-the-email' attack, a BEC scam is intended to defraud companies, their customers, partners, and employees by duping them into sending money or sensitive information to fake accounts, sites, ...
Why Do Phishing Emails Have Such Obvious Typos?
Have you received an email from a Nigerian prince asking for your help? Were you recently notified you won a lottery that you never participated in? If so, you’re in good company ...
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Understanding Threat Actors
Social-Engineer | | Cybersecurity, cybersecurityawareness, Newsletter, Phishing, smishing, social engineering, student loan scams, threat actors, ukraine war scams, vishing
A threat actor or “malicious actor” is defined as either a person or a group of people that take part […] ...
SMiShing in Social Engineering News
Social-Engineer | | Cybersecurity, General, Information Security, Protect Yourself, security awareness training, smishing, social engineering, social engineering attack, Twilio
SMiShing uses SMS (Short Message Service) as the attack vector. The attacker’s objective is to trick the target into installing […] ...
The three executive perspectives on phishing tests
Seed and Soil | | Employee Awareness, executive awareness, executive security awareness, Executive support, Home, Phishing, Phishing assessments, Security Awareness, security awareness training, social engineering
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Employment Scams: How to Avoid Them
Social-Engineer | | Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, employment scams, fake check scams, General Social Engineer Blog, reshipping scams, social engineering
Employment scams have been around for quite some time. Whether you fell for one or not, you have likely come […] ...
Combining Cybersecurity with Gaming: Cheats, Insider Threats, Ransomware and More
Flashpoint Team | | APT, APTs, cyber threat intelligence, Cybersecurity, ddos, Illicit communities, insider threat, insider threats, Ransomware, social engineering, threat actor, threat actors, Threat Intelligence, video games, Vulnerabilities
The video game industry has grown considerably since its introduction in the early 1970s, with analysts believing the market to be worth $321 billion by 2026. As such, the gaming industry faces ...
Fake News, New Malware Drive Recent Attacks
One thing threat actors and cybersecurity analysts have in common is that they’re both in a constant race to analyze the latest emerging malware and threats. Threat actors want to exploit them, ...
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Defending Against Vishing: Is It Really Possible?
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Vishing, a word that was entered into the Oxford Dictionary in 2015, defines what we call “voice phishing”. Using the […] ...