The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a data spotlight outlining the most common text message scams in 2022. Phony bank fraud prevention alerts were the most common type of text scam last year. “Reports about texts impersonating banks…
Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I’ll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. This year's Data Breach Investigations Report has nearly 1 million incidents in their data set,…
Legitimate services can be exploited in social engineering, including business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Researchers at Check Point describe one current BEC campaign that’s using Soda PDF to send messages encouraging the recipients to call a phone number. Should they…
The French government is taking a stand against the increasing threat of digital warfare. Publicly accusing Russia of conducting an extensive online manipulation campaign, France is fighting back against typosquatting of major media outlets and the French Foreign Ministry. The…
Details from a simple impersonation phishing attack show how well thought out these attacks really are in order to heighten their ability to fool victims and harvest credentials. Credential harvesting scams are pretty simple at face value: send an email…
The recent conviction of a U.K. man for cyber crimes committed in 2018 brings to light a cyber attack where this attacker manually performed the “in-the-middle” part of an attack. We’ve all heard of a “Man-in-the-Middle” (MitM) attack – also…
