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Mandy McKenzie, Director Of Product Management for Mimecast Awareness Training.

Mimecast launches phishing simulation tool for orgs to gauge security readiness

Mimecast has announced an industry changing capability that will allow customers to launch live phishing simulations. Known as SAFE Phish, it’s designed to let security teams create training exercises using real-life, de-weaponised

6 years ago

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Lotem Finkelsteen, Head of Threat Intelligence, Check Point Software.

Check Point finds cyber criminals leaving stolen phishing credentials online

Cybercrime is a complex landscape, but when it comes to actually launching cyberattacks, there are three main techniques that criminals have relied on for decades to help them get around organisations’ defences

5 years ago

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Kaspersky detects phishing version of Arabic Netflix.

Kaspersky warns of malicious domain disguised as legitimate Netflix landing page

Kaspersky researchers have detected a wave of phishing attacks leading to a malicious domain perfectly disguised as a legitimate Netflix landing page. As a popular streaming platform, Netflix is also a popular

6 years ago

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Kaspersky reports 617,347 phishing attacks in Q2 2020 in the UAE.

Kaspersky warns phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted

Kaspersky analysis has revealed that phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted. A number of new tricks have also been found, from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As

6 years ago

Technology

Unit 42 warns of malicious Covid-themed domains hosted in the cloud

Unit 42 has released new research on malicious Covid-19 themed domains hosted in the cloud that are targeting users with phishing and malware. Unit 42 researchers analysed 1.2 million newly registered domain

6 years ago

Technology

Emile Abou Saleh, Regional Director, Middle East and Africa at Proofpoint.

Proofpoint warns of credential theft and malware while video conferencing

Since March 27, 2020, Proofpoint researchers have observed an increase in video conferencing company-themed attacks seeking to steal credentials and distribute malware. These lures capitalise on the global workforce’s shift to remote

6 years ago

Technology

Campaigns targeting Mandarin speakers interested in Covid-19 news.

FireEye finds Vietnamese hackers are targeting Chinese govt for Covid-19 data

From at least January to April 2020, suspected Vietnamese actors APT32 carried out intrusion campaigns against Chinese targets that Mandiant Threat Intelligence believes was designed to collect intelligence on the Covid-19 crisis.

6 years ago

Technology

Chester Wisniewski, Principal Research Scientist, Sophos.

SophosLabs tracks significant uptick in COVID-19 scams and phishing attacks

SophosLabs is tracking how the use of COVID-19 and coronavirus in domain names, spam, phishing attacks, and malware is skyrocketing. The findings suggest that the volume of COVID-19 and coronavirus email scams have nearly

6 years ago

Technology

Syed Abid Ali, Co-Founder and CCO, PhishRod.

PhishRod offers free toolkit to boost COVID-19 awareness, support work from home

PhishRod is offering a free toolkit that contains awareness content and work from home policy template, along with free access to Policy Compliance Manager amid rise in phishing attacks related to coronavirus.

6 years ago

Technology

Star Wars latest film used by hackers to launch phishing and malware attacks

The Rise of Skywalker attracts attention of global threat actors

Popular films are often used by cybercriminals as bait to distribute malware, and the latest movie saga from a galaxy far, far away is no exception. Kaspersky reports that this year, the

7 years ago

Technology

Juan Manuel Harán, Security Editor at ESET

Five ways to strengthen employee cybersecurity awareness

Since human error has a well-documented history of causing many breaches, no organisation can afford to overlook the importance of ensuring that its employees are aware of online dangers. This is mainly why the first

7 years ago

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