Eighty-nine percent of businesses reported at least one successful email breach during the past year, while email breach prevalence has increased by nearly twofold since 2019, most of which stemmed from Microsoft 365 phishing attacks, according to Threatpost.
MetaMask has warned about a new phishing attack targeted at iCloud backups following the theft of more than $655,000 from at least one user, BleepingComputer reports.
A study on Q1 brand phishing trends by Check Point research found that social media networks have now overtaken shipping, retail and technology as the most likely category targeted by criminal groups.
This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes updates to ongoing network downtime for two providers and multiple reports of employee email account hacks, led by Christie Clinic.
Cofense analysts detailed a new malicious remote access trojan (RAT) spoofing the IRS to get unsuspecting taxpayers to allow them to enter their systems remotely.
By sending employees follow-up warnings after their unauthorized access to patient health data, a large academic medical center saw a massive reduction in repeat offenses.
Operators of the Qbot botnet, also known as Qakbot, Quakbot, and Pinkslipbot, have begun leveraging phishing emails with malicious MSI Windows Installer package-laced ZIP archive attachments to spread malware instead of the traditional approach of malware distribution through phishing emails containing Microsoft Office documents with malicious macros.
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