Cybersecurity
CrowdStrike sees ‘massive increase’ in voice phishing
The security company’s annual threat report revealed there’s a lot of vish in the sea.
Phishing
Cybersecurity
SANS sees phishers use tricky hyphens in URLs
Which makes domains easy to impersonate, SANS’s dean of research tells us.
Cybersecurity
Insurer sees ‘major entry vector’: Misconfigured MX records
At-Bay found that 7% of claims had costly MX mistakes.
Cybersecurity
DEF CON’s ‘vishing’ competition shows off social engineering tricks
A soundproof booth and a mic is all it takes DEF CON’s social engineers to extract sensitive data over the phone.
Cybersecurity
Report shows URL obfuscators “@” large
Phishers are disguising URLs with @ symbols and long numbers.
Phishing
IT pros see shift to business email compromise ‘3.0’
An Avanan researcher predicts a wave of “3.0” phishing threats.
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