It’s that exhilarating time of year again! Summer is winding down, and the back-to-school season is in full swing—a truly fantastic time to focus on the power of education, not just in the traditional sense, but especially in the ever-evolving digital world.
You’ve probably seen them: enticing online offers for free products from brands you trust, like a Yeti beach chair from Costco or an emergency car kit from AAA.
Below is an example of a sophisticated survey scam phishing email that KnowBe4’s Threat Lab team has been monitoring as discussed in “The Hidden Cost of “Free” Gifts: How Survey Scams Are Evolving to Steal Financial Data”.
Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing AI-assisted website generators to quickly craft convincing phishing sites, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.
Attackers are using a Japanese Unicode character to replace forward slashes in phishing URLs, BleepingComputer reports.
Professional phishing groups are targeting customers of brokerage firms in order to manipulate stock prices, KrebsOnSecurity reports. The attackers use a technique called “ramp and dump” to profit from the scheme.
Social engineering attacks are a growing threat to operational technology (OT) environments, Industrial Cyber reports.
