Proofpoint researchers find that the top 10 colleges studied in the United States are the most at risk compared with similar leading universities in the U.K. and Australia.
Email-based attacks are more commonplace and costlier than ever. Here’s how to firm up your email security so that bogus messages never get through — and real ones always do.
Fewer than 1 in 10 financial industry users (9.6%) use personal applications on their work computers or their mobile devices, according to Netskope research.
More phishing attacks are being hosted through InterPlanetary File System peer-to-peer data sites that could better conceal malicious content, according to The Register.
Threatpost reports that while malicious macro-enabled attachment use dropped by nearly 66% from October 2021 to June 2022 as a result of Microsoft blocking Office macros by default, threat actors have been leveraging new tactics to get around Microsoft's defense strategy in new phishing attacks.
Microsoft was the most impersonated brand in phishing attacks during the first half of 2022, followed by Facebook and French bank Crdit Agricole, reports Threatpost.
Threat actors have been commencing zero-day vulnerability scanning only 15 minutes following the flaw's disclosure, resulting in much quicker exploitation, reports ZDNet.
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