A phishing campaign is impersonating UK energy regulator Ofgem, according to Action Fraud, the UK’s cybercrime reporting centre. “Energy prices are set to increase on 1 October 2022 and in the last two weeks, more than 1,500 reports have been…
Optus, one of Australia's largest telecommunications companies, recently suffered a data breach that affected over 9.8 million customers. The telecom giant is not sure who was behind the cyber attack, but did admit that some identity documents may have been…
GitHub has issued an alert warning of a phishing campaign targeting users by impersonating the popular DevOps tool CircleCI, BleepingComputer reports. The phishing emails inform users that they’ll need to click on a link and log into their GitHub account…
Luring victims using a realistic- and legitimate-looking fake browser window to steal Steam accounts, this new type of social engineering may be a sign of things to come. I’ve long written about impersonated brands, fake websites, and spoofed logon pages…
A survey by GetApp has found that the number of organizations using phishing simulations has risen from 30% in 2019 to 70% in 2022. Despite this positive trend, however, attackers continue to increase both the sophistication and volume of their…
New quarterly data from the Anti-Phishing Working Group shows unprecedented phishing activity with increases in BEC, use of social media, vishing, and smishing. It’s never good when phishing attacks are moving, proverbially, “up and to the right.” But that’s exactly…
