Phishing Archive
Phishing is one of the most common types of cyber crime, but despite how much we think we know about scam emails, people still frequently fall victim. According to Proofpoint’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, 83% of organisations fell …
This Sunday is both Halloween and the end of National Cyber Security Awareness Month – and what better way to mark the occasion than with some cyber security horror stories? In this blog, we look at three ways in which …
Email spoofing is a type of scam in which criminal hackers trick people into thinking a message has come from a legitimate source. According to Proofpoint, 3.1 billion spoofed emails are sent every day, with attacks costing businesses $26 billion …
Cyber criminals have many tricks up their sleeves when it comes to compromising sensitive data. They don’t always rely on system vulnerabilities and sophisticated hacks; they’re just as likely to target an organisation’s employees. The attack methods they use to …
Employees forget the guidance given on phishing training courses within six months, new research has revealed. The findings, which were presented at the USENIX SOUPS security conference in August, were the result of a year-long investigation into the effectiveness of …
In our latest round-up of phishing scams, we look at a novel Instagram scam that targets victims through their direct messages, review the latest campaign that imitates Microsoft Office’s log-in page and discuss how even a cyber security training provider …
Phishing scams are among the most common and dangerous type of attack that organisations face. Indeed, Verizon’s Data Breach Digest found that 90% of all data breaches involve phishing. But what makes these attacks so successful? An Osterman Research report …
In our latest round-up of phishing scams, we look at how criminal hackers infiltrated Twitter and sent tweets from dozens of compromised accounts. We also explain how fraudsters impersonated Google Cloud Platform in a PDF download scam, and issue a …
One of the more damaging side-effects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the increase in targeted phishing scams. Action Fraud estimates that Britons were conned out of £3.5 million in the first two months of lockdown, with cyber criminals cashing …
With the UK government recently confirming that the lockdown will be extended for a further three weeks, we hope you’re comfortable in your remote work set-up – or, at least, as comfortable as one can hope. The isolation will be …
