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The recent cyber attack on Dick's Sporting Goods makes it clear that email played a critical role and emphasizes the need for better security controls. Dick’s Sporting Goods is a $12 billion company with more than 800 stores across the United States. That measure of success made the retailer the target of a recent cyber attack. A filing with the U.S.

Yubico has published a survey of 20,000 people from 10 countries around the world, finding that 40% of respondents have never received cybersecurity training from their employer. Additionally, 70% of respondents said they’ve been exposed to cyber attacks in their personal lives within the past 12 months, and 50% faced cyber attacks at work.

The criminal prosecution of the threat actors behind the "OTP Agency" has highlighted an ingenious new tactic that cybercriminals can use to bypass multi-factor authentication. The OTP Agency launched back in November of 2019. Their service was simple: if you have a compromised credential, their service would call the credential owner and pose as the website the account was for citing fraudulent activity, and ask the owner to verify themselves by providing the one-time password (OTP) sent to them via SMS.

The number of ransomware attacks around the world increased by 73% in 2023, according to a new report by the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF). These attacks opportunistically target organizations across all industries, but the hardest-hit sectors over the past two years have been construction, hospitals and health care, government, IT services and consulting, and financial services.

Once upon a time, security awareness training resembled a never-ending game of Tetris. Threats cascaded down, demanding swift action and strategy, only to speed up until we inevitably faltered. Today, we've entered a new realm of engagement, creativity, and community in human risk management.

Netcraft warns that scammers are posting QR code stickers on parking meters in the UK and other European countries. In the UK, the QR codes lead to phishing sites that impersonate the parking payment app PayByPhone. The phishing sites are designed to steal personal information and payment data.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing most, if not all, industries worldwide. AI systems use complex algorithms and large datasets to analyze information, make predictions and adjust to new scenarios through machine learning – enabling them to improve over time without being explicitly programmed for every task.

A phishing campaign is targeting GitHub users with phony CAPTCHA pages, according to researchers at McAfee. The phishing emails ask users to address a security vulnerability in a GitHub repository that they recently contributed to, and contain a link to find more information about the alleged vulnerability. This link leads to a fake CAPTCHA page that attempts to trick them into installing malware.

Analysis of typosquatting and brand impersonation activity across 500 of the most visited domains provides insight in to how these techniques come together to effectively deceive. From February 2024 to July 2024, Zscaler’s ThreatLabz tracked more than 30,000 lookalike domains that impersonated some of the world’s most well-known brands.

Since the beginning of computers, social engineering has been the number one way that computers and networks have been compromised. Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of all successful data breaches. Nothing else is even close (unpatched software and firmware are involved in 33% of successful attacks, everything else is 1% or less).