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How to Spot Phishing Lures | McAfee Blog

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How to Spot Phishing Lures | McAfee Blog

Phishing attacks have all kinds of lures. And many are so tried and true that it makes them easy to spot. The target of a phishing attack is you. More specifically, your personal info and your money. Whether a scammer reaches out by email, with a text, or through a direct message, that’s what they’re after. And with a link, they whisk you off to a sketchy site designed to take them from you. Just…

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How to Recognize a Phishing Email | McAfee Blog

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How to Recognize a Phishing Email | McAfee Blog

How do you recognize phishing emails and texts? Even as many of the scammers behind them have sophisticated their attacks, you can still pick out telltale signs. Common to them all, every phishing is a cybercrime that aims to steal your sensitive info. Personal info. Financial info. Other attacks go right for your wallet by selling bogus goods or pushing phony charities. You’ll find scammers posing as major corporations, friends, business associates, and more. They…

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Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

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Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

Think you’ve received an important document from HR? Be careful. KnowBe4’s quarterly phishing test report found that threat actors in Q2 often found success with emails spoofing HR departments. After an ill-fated click occurred, links in the body of emails and PDF documents were common vectors for attacks. TechRepublic spoke with KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron about the results of the phishing tests and how to keep businesses safe from ever-evolving, generative AI-powered phishing…

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Researchers discovered a new phishing kit on the dark web

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Researchers discovered a new phishing kit on the dark web

Researchers at SlashNext discovered a new phishing kit on the dark web. This phishing kit, known as FishXProxy Phishing Kit, starts with uniquely generated links that can evade initial suspicion. Cybercriminals on underground forums are advertising this kit as “The Ultimate Powerful Phishing Toolkit” due to the sophisticated tools it provides. Capabilities this phishing kit provides includes: Sophisticated antibot systems that utilize Cloudfare’s CAPTCHA and filter out security measures Redirection abilities that obscure intended destinations Page…

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Cybersecurity at the Paris Summer Olympics

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Cybersecurity at the Paris Summer Olympics

In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Mark Manglicmot, SVP of Security Services at Arctic Wolf, we discuss how individuals and businesses can defend against cyber threats during the Olympics.  “For this year’s Olympics specifically, the risks of AI being manipulated by bad actors is increasingly high and a new threat for this Olympics compared to the past with the emergence of the technology. This is why individuals, athletes, administrators, coaches and anybody else attending…

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Ransomware Cheat Sheet for 2024: What Is Ransomware?

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Ransomware Cheat Sheet for 2024: What Is Ransomware?

Ransomware is arguably the most high-profile security threat of the moment. Cybercriminals across the world are demanding money from victims by holding their devices and data hostage. This type of attack, in which data is encrypted or claimed to be and victims are prompted to pay for the key to restore access, has been growing rapidly since 2013 and is now one of the most common types of malware. TechRepublic’s cheat sheet about ransomware is…

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Email obfuscation tactics elude security protections

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Email obfuscation tactics elude security protections

Cyber attackers have used email obfuscation techniques for decades to conceal malicious code or data within a file, script or network traffic. There are many email obfuscation methods, such as putting addresses into images, captchas or texts that bots cannot read. Such traditional email obfuscation tactics are well known, and security controls have historically been good at patching and stopping them. But recently our threat researchers have uncovered some newly evolving techniques that are designed…

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How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam

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How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam

So this is the first step: Take control of your emotions. Yes, it can be difficult if you work in a demanding field. But it’s your best first defense, and your employer will thank you for it (or, at least, they should). Always Confirm Through a Second Channel Now that you’re skeptically questioning the legitimacy of the urgent request, check to make sure the email is coming from the person it claims to be from….

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How to Avoid Being Phished by Your Phone | McAfee Blog

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How to Avoid Being Phished by Your Phone | McAfee Blog

By now you’ve probably heard of the term “phishing”—when scammers try to fool you into revealing your personal info or sending money, usually via email — but what about “vishing”? Vishing, or voice phishing, is basically the same practice, but done by phone. There are a few reasons why it’s important for you to know about vishing. First off, voice phishing scams are prevalent and growing. A common example around tax season is the IRS scam,…

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Untrained users are the greatest weakness in a cyber defense plan

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Untrained users are the greatest weakness in a cyber defense plan

KnowBe4 has released its 2024 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report. This report measures the likelihood that an organization’s employees would fall for a phishing or social engineering scam, assessing the status of security preparedness and awareness across global industries such as government, healthcare and critical infrastructure.  54 million simulated phishing tests were analyzed in the report. These tests involved more than 11.9 million individuals from 55,675 organizations across 19 industries. Through this analysis, the report found…

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