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The Importance of Team Diversity in Detecting Phishing Scams

An email subject line catches a user’s interest. The user clicks through and gets compromised. This is a classic phishing attack; it remains one...

Multiple Indian Banks Encounter Phishing Attacks

Sensitive financial information is always a lucrative target for cybercriminals. Threat actors often use advanced techniques in their phishing campaigns to harvest victims’ banking...

Here’s Why You Are More Likely to Be Targeted with a Phishing Email

Threat actors constantly innovate and adopt new techniques to perform their phishing activities successfully. They often leverage compromised email IDs, login credentials, and other...

IRS Alerts U.S. Taxpayers About e-File Identity Theft via Phishing Attacks

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had previously issued several warnings regarding scammers using the IRS name and/or logo to dupe people into giving access...

Social Engineering: Life Blood of Data Exploitation (Phishing)

What do Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and Frank Abigail all have in common, aside from the obvious fact that they...

Real or Imposter? Everything You Need to Know About “Homoglyph” Phishing

Security experts from Malwarebytes discovered cybercriminals using a combination fake domains with favicons to launch “Homoglyph Attacks.” The attackers used Homoglyph attack — also...