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

Microsoft Warns About Consent Phishing Applications

A new post by the Microsoft security team warns about a new type of phishing attack vector targeting users. Consent Phishing, as they refer to it as, targets users by asking for an egregious amount of permissions from Single-Sign-On allowing the bad actors to abuse the accounts they have been granted access to.

Jul 10, 2020

New Phishing Attempt on Instagram for Fake Copyright Violations

Instagram users should be on the lookout for fake copyright notices that have emerged as a new way to try and phish people into handing over the credentials of their accounts. As reported by

Jun 30, 2020

Office 365 Users Targeted with Hijacked Oxford Servers using Samsung and Adobe links

As reported by Checkpoint Research, European users of Office 365 have been targeted with phishing emails sent from seemingly legitimate sources after bad actors hijacked Samsung's

Jun 22, 2020

Phishing Email Impersonating Black Lives Matter Promotes TrickBot Malware

As is common with real phishing campaigns, bad actors are using current events to take advantage of people and trick them into opening malicious emails.

Jun 12, 2020

GitLab Employees Had a 59% Failure Rate in a Recent Phishing Test

GitLab.com recently performed a spear phishing campaign where they targeted 50 of their employees in an attempt to see how vulnerable their team members were to phishing attacks. Using the domain "gitlab.company" and GSuite to deliver emails, those targeted were asked to click on a link to accept an upgraded Laptop from their IT department.

May 22, 2020

User Credential Theft Prevention

Social engineering is the process of attacking the human, or employee, rather than the technology directly. Through social tactics, an employee is tricked into performing an action,

Sep 02, 2019

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) - 2019

The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides valuable information on the threats facing organizations today. The DBIR is produced by Verizon with a collaboration of many security entities. The following is a summary of finding that relate to the human element of security.

Aug 28, 2019