Phishing tricks that really work – and how to avoid them
As two people for whom creating phishing emails constitutes legitimate employment (we are on the product team behind the Sophos ...
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Major BEC Phishing Ring Cracked Open with 3 Arrests
Some 50,000 targeted victims have been identified so far in a massive, global scam enterprise that involves 26 different malwares. ...
Sophos 2021 Threat Report: Navigating cybersecurity in an uncertain world
We know what you’re thinking: “Another year; another vendor; another threat report… …and when I open it, I’ll be stuck ...
Wisc. GOP’s $2.3M MAGA Hat Debacle Showcases Fraud Concerns
Scammers bilked Wisconsin Republicans out of $2.3 million in a basic BEC scam — and anyone working on the upcoming ...
Rapper Scams $1.2M in COVID-19 Relief, Gloats with ‘EDD’ Video
"Nuke Bizzle" faces 22 years in prison after brazenly bragging about an identity-theft campaign in his music video, "EDD." Source ...
Gone phishing: workplace email security in five steps
David Mitchell, Senior Director of Email Product Management at Sophos, shares his top tips to optimize workplace email security. How ...
BEC Wire Transfers Average $80K Per Attack
That number represents a big uptick over Q1. Source link
Phishing scam uses Sharepoint and One Note to go after passwords
Here’s a phishing email we received recently that ticks all the cybercriminal trick-to-click boxes. From BEC, through cloud storage, via ...
Using AI to fight hand-crafted Business Email Compromise
Younghoo Lee is a Senior Data Scientist at Sophos. Together with Joshua Saxe, Sophos Chief Scientist, he recently presented these ...
