The most effective subject lines for phishing attacks are focused on things that employees tend to be scared to ignore, such as “HR”, “IT”, and “DropBox file shared”, based on a Q2 2024 top-clicked phishing report issued Wednesday from KnowBe4. “HR is the scariest phishing tool in the attackers’ arsenal,” said Erich Kron, security awareness […]
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Phishing campaigns that spoof well-known global brands such as Disney, IBM, Nike, Best Buy, and Coca-Cola to trick recipients into clicking on malicious emails should be a thing of the past. We trust this assumption thanks to a suite of mature email authentication technologies dating back between over a decade: If the sender’s email is […]
Recent phishing campaigns were seen abusing email security services that rewrite URLs to hide their own malicious links. The irony is that this URL rewriting feature, which is common in secure email gateways and some cloud-based email services, is specifically intended as a reputation filter to prevent users from accessing known phishing sites. “From mid-May […]