Midnight Blizzard Escalates Spear-Phishing Attacks
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new attack campaign by Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, targeting thousands of users across over 100 organizations. The attack leverages spear-phishing emails with RDP…
Read More »Are Ghost Calls a Problem? Yes, if They Don’t Stop
A ghost call is an incoming call with no one on the other end when you answer it. Sometimes it’s an unrecognized number; other times the caller ID shows “Unknown.”…
Read More »Phishing Attacks on Australia Disguised as Atlassian
Enterprises across Australia and the APAC region have been warned that cyber criminals are exploiting popular platforms like Atlassian to launch more convincing phishing attacks on law firms and other…
Read More »AI, Phishing Attacks, Healthcare, and a $480,000 OCR Settlement under HIPAA
Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural…
Read More »Professor Shubha Ghosh Reviews Scott J. Shapiro’s “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks”
Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and Director of the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute Shubha Ghosh has written a review of Scott J. Shapiro’s new book, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing:…
Read More »Major US Energy Company Hit by QR Code Phishing Campaign
This QR code phishing campaign is targeting multiple industries and using legitimate services such as Microsoft Bing to increase its efficiency and bypass security. Image: ronstik/Adobe Stock Cofense, a U.S.-based…
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