Threat trends, product updates, and security insights from the PhishingBox team.
The 2021 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.
As the world continues to deal with COVID-19 remote work has exploded to become a new normal for many industries. This new normal presents exciting possibilities for workers yet exposes them to critical security gaps as employees let their guards down when working remotely.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.