When it comes to business, employees often receive emails from websites enforcing 2FA from the system administrator. Some employees may not think anything about this, and simply comply to make sure they don’t get future emails from IT and their manager reminding them to follow up on an email that is now 100 emails down[…]
Security experts are warning shoppers that there may be a high spike of phishing activity to capitalise on the upcoming Black-Friday and Cyber Monday shopping events on the 26th and 29th of November Black-Friday and Cyber Monday make up a very large percentage of consumer spend on items in a year due to good deals[…]
A large scale phishing attack campaign has been utilising a fake Google reCAPTCHA system to attempt to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. Google reCAPTCHA is one of their services designed to help protect websites from bots that spam and try to gain information. The system uses a Turing test to tell if the person is human[…]
A few weeks ago, customers of one the UK’s top fast-food brands, Subway, took to social media to complain about suspicious emails they have been receiving from them. Users have stated they have received an email from the fast-food chain which claims to be an order confirmation email. Links within these emails have been reported[…]
Security experts are warning shoppers that there may be a high spike of phishing activity to capitalize on the Amazon Prime Day promotions. Amazon Prime Day is the biggest promotional event of the year for the e-commerce giant. It is larger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined in terms of money spent. This, however[…]
Our article this week will cover the importance of a spam filter, and how to use this properly to defend against phishing emails. There are two main types of phishing approach – the first uses an email address that is untargeted but is sent to multiple companies to extract data, this type will generally have[…]
This week the Attack Library mini-series will focus phishing e-mails, a social engineering attack that many people encounter on a day to day basis. This blog will detail what common phishing e-mails contain, and how to deal with this form of attack. Phishing attacks are used to obtain information such as usernames, passwords, credit card[…]