Blog Large GoDaddy Data Breach Involves WordPress Customer Email Adresses December 4, 2021 by Vertical Axion Are you a GoDaddy customer? Do you maintain a WordPress blog with the company? If so be advised that the company recently announced a breach of their network. An as yet unidentified third party accessed GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. Based on the investigation to date the intrusion began on September 6, 2021. While taking […] Read more » Business & Finance Business Advice Data Breach General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New TodayZoo Phishing Campaign Is Going After Passwords November 6, 2021 by Vertical Axion Microsoft recently reported on the existence of an unusual phishing campaign designed primarily to harvest the passwords of unsuspecting victims. One of the things that makes the campaign so unusual is the fact that it appears to be built by using bits of code copied and pasted from the work of other hackers. Call it […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Warn Your Employees About The New DocuSign Phishing Campaign October 26, 2021 by Vertical Axion Phishing attacks tend to focus on executive level targets. They focus on high ranking targets who have considerable system access. That appears to be changing. A recent trend tracked by researchers from Avanan has revealed that nearly half of all phishing emails analyzed in recent months were crafted to impersonate non-executives. Additionally more than three […] Read more » Business Advice Employees General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology Tips
Blog Report Finds One Third Of Suspicious Emails Are Threats September 23, 2021 by Vertical Axion Employee cyber security training is paying off according to a report recently released by IT security company F-Secure. Researchers from F-Secure analyzed more than 200,000 emails that had been flagged as suspicious by employees working for organizations around the world. They discovered that more than one third of those emails could be classified as phishing. […] Read more » Business Advice General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology Tips
Blog Microsoft 365 Getting Button To Easily Report Phishing Emails August 31, 2021 by Vertical Axion We’re beginning to see increasing collaboration between giant tech companies and government agencies around the world. In the UK the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched its Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) back in April of 2020. The agency has received nearly 7 million reports since its launch. These include more than 50,500 reported scams […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Office 365 Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Hackers Are Pretending To be Chipotle In Poisoned Emails August 13, 2021 by Vertical Axion Hackers Are Pretending To be Chipotle In Poisoned Emails Chipotle recently reported that an account used by their company’s marketing department had been hacked. A currently active campaign is underway leveraging this account. The hackers are sending out phishing emails containing poisoned links. A recipient clicking on these links will be directed to a malicious […] Read more » Branding General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Notification Of New Subscription Billing Could Be A Phishing Attack June 15, 2021 by Vertical Axion There’s a dangerous new phishing scam you should be aware of and alert your employees to right away. A growing trend in the hacking world is to use mixed media, including phone calls with live actors at the other end, posing as “customer support” representatives, and even recorded messages including instructions and attached to emails. […] Read more » General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Beware Of Voice Message Phishing Attacks Called Vishing June 11, 2021 by Vertical Axion Hackers and scammers have been experimenting with “vishing” in recent months, as a subset of phishing. Conventional phishing tactics rely on sending emails that employ a variety of social engineering tricks to convince unsuspecting recipients to hand over sensitive information up to and including login credentials. However, “vishing” adds a new angle: Voice, either via […] Read more » General Interest Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New RevengeRAT Trojan Gives Hackers Access To Your Data June 2, 2021 by Vertical Axion Recently, Microsoft issued an alert, warning users about a remote access tool called RevengeRAT, also known as AsyncRAT. It is being used to target travel and aerospace companies with spear-phishing emails. The emails use social engineering tricks to prompt employees at these types of firms to open a poisoned Adobe PDF attachment which downloads a […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Microsoft Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Global Scale Phishing Attack Brings New Malware May 20, 2021 by Vertical Axion There’s an ongoing, global scale phishing attack you should be aware of, even if your firm isn’t currently being targeted by it. The attack is being tracked by Mandiant, who recently published a report about it. According to that report, the attack was planned in waves, hitting more than 50 different organizations spanning a broad […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
