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Armorblox: BEC Attacks Increased by 72% YOY

April 13, 2023 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Threat researchers at email security firm Armorblox have found that business email compromise (BEC) attacks have increased dramatically by 72% year-over-year. In its second, annual 2023 Email Security Threat Report, the company says it continues to see high volumes of language-based and socially engineered attacks targeting organizations of all sizes and across industries. Vendor compromise […]

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Social Engineering

5 Strangest Social Engineering Tactics of 2021

March 3, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Cyber attackers can be quite inventive when it comes to social engineering and persuading someone to do something that isn’t always in their best interest— logging into a phishing site and entering their credentials, luring victims to pay a fake invoice, or simply opening a file containing malware. Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint rounded up the top […]

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Zoom Zero-Day

Double Check That Zoom Meeting Invite Before You Click ‘Start Meeting’

January 31, 2022 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Attackers are now seizing the opportunity to spoof Zoom meeting invites. About 10,000 mailboxes have been hit with the socially engineered emails, according to cybersecurity company Armorblox. The social engineered attacks are designed to look like a legitimate email from Zoom mimicking existing business workflows. Attackers will use the Zoom email address, “Zoom Communications” and […]

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Robinhood Data Breach: Hacker Tricked Customer Support Employee By Phone

November 9, 2021 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Stock trading platform Robinhood announced that certain customer support systems were hacked in early November. The unauthorized party was able to gain access using social engineering through a customer support employee by phone. The hacker was able to obtain access to a list of email addresses of about five million people, and full names of […]

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