Spear Phishing Attacks are moving to LinkedIn

With a COVID-influenced economy, job hunting has become very difficult, and as a result, more and more people are using LinkedIn as a tool to look for remote jobs or local jobs online. However, things might have become more dangerous because these job offers are now the target of cyber criminals.

Apr 08, 2021

Who Trains the Teacher on Phishing?

According to the IBM X-Force Report, phishing remains one of the leading causes of data breaches outside of ransomware. K–12 education systems are not immune to this reality since elementary and secondary school networks contended with a record number of cybersecurity incidents during 2020.

Apr 02, 2021

PhishingBox Trust Center Now Available

PhishingBox knows that vendor due diligence is critical in selecting a service provider. As such, PhishingBox has developed the Trust Center to outline its key security and compliance

Mar 18, 2021

New & Updated Phishing Email Templates

Over the past few weeks, we have been overhauling our phishing email template library. We've sorted through the library and organized our templates based on attack type and difficulty.

Mar 15, 2021

Local Election Officials Targeted with Suspicious Email

A report in the Wall Street Journal on October 26th described incidences of election officials within the U.S. at the local level being sent suspicious emails which appear to be purposefully targeting them due to their position within their states.

Oct 27, 2020

CenturyLink Outage Affecting 3.5% of the Internet

n Sunday August 30th, 2020 CenturyLink suffered a major outage which affected numerous internet companies including Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft via Xbox Live, EA, Blizzard, Steam, Discord, Reddit, Hulu, NameCheap, OpenDNS, and many others including PhishingBox.

Sep 02, 2020

New Experiment in Google Chrome to Fight Back Against Phishing Websites

The developers behind the Google Chrome browser have announced in a blog post that they will begin testing a new way to help defend against the increasing threat of phishing attacks.

Aug 21, 2020

New Research Finds That 7.42% Of Victims Who Visit Phishing Sites Supply Their Credentials

In a new report from the combined efforts of Arizona State University, PayPal, Google, and Samsung, researchers found that at least 7.42% of victims who visit phishing pages input their credentials resulting in compromised accounts and experience fraudulent transactions as a result.

Aug 04, 2020

LastPass Customers Receive Phishing Email In Attempt to Steal Master Password

In an effort to inform and defend customers, LastPass warned that there had been reports of a Phishing email that was being sent to users using the LastPass platform.

Jul 21, 2020