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Top Five Industries Aggressively Targeted By Phishing Attacks
Cybercriminals are targeting the finance, insurance, manufacturing, mining, healthcare and retail industries using a tactic called subject redaction. They use personal information to create personalized phishing emails. These mimic legitimate business communications, encouraging recipients to engage with malicious content. Seasonal fluctuations and correlations between email themes and threat actors have been observed in such attacks.
Top Five Industries Aggressively Targeted By Phishing Attacks
Aman Mishra 2024-12-06 09:43:00 gbhackers.com Researchers analyzed phishing attacks from Q3 2023 to Q3 2024 and identified the top five industries targeted by subject-customized emails, which often leverage personal information like names, emails, phone numbers, or company names to bypass security measures. Employing redaction techniques to protect sensitive information while providing actionable intelligence to clients ensures that valuable insights are shared without compromising privacy.
Top Five Industries Aggressively Targeted By Phishing Attacks
Researchers analyzed phishing attacks from Q3 2023 to Q3 2024 and identified the top five industries targeted by subject-customized emails, which often leverage personal information like names, emails, phone numbers, or company names to bypass security measures. Employing redaction techniques to protect sensitive information while providing actionable intelligence to clients ensures that valuable insights are shared without compromising privacy.
Top Five Industries Aggressively Targeted By Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks continue to pose a significant threat to various industries, with cybercriminals employing sophisticated tactics to deceive recipients. A recent analysis by Cofense Intelligence, covering data from Q3 2023 to Q3 2024, has identified the top five industries most targeted by phishing attacks using customized subject lines.
Banking Central | Dear bank customer, think again lest you hit that link
You receive a random text message with a link to update your bank account details, which takes you to a website and asks for a one-time password. You enter the password. In another few minutes, you get messages that a substantial amount of money is deducted from your bank account. Then begins the panic calls to bank and long process to address the (by now you know) the phishing attack. The above scenario must have happened with you at some point--or with someone you know.
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4 Things Your Employees Are Doing Right Now That Are Compromising Your Network Original
In today’s digitally connected world, your team has the unprecedented ability to quickly get the tools and information they need to streamline their work. But with all of that accessibility comes new risks to your cybersecurity. Malicious individuals are eager to gain access to the confidential information housed in your company’s networks — and your employees can be an all-too-easy target.
Security Boulevard
The FBI recently delivered a Private Industry Notification (PIN) in which it pointed to two new hacker tools that can bypass two-factor authentication. A Dark Reading article shared that the PIN noted threat actors are using “well-known techniques including social engineering and man-in-the-middle attacks, facilitated with two new hacker tools: Mureana (named for a family of eels), which automates phishing attacks, and NecroBrowser, which helps to hijack a legitimate authentication session.
FBI Alerts that 2FA is Bypassed by Phishing Attacks
The FBI recently delivered a Private Industry Notification (PIN) in which it pointed to two new hacker tools that can bypass two-factor authentication. A Dark Reading article shared that the PIN noted threat actors are using “well-known techniques including social engineering and man-in-the-middle attacks, facilitated with two new hacker tools: Mureana (named for a family of eels), which automates phishing attacks, and NecroBrowser, which helps to hijack a legitimate authentication session.
What Newbies Want: First-Time Buyers Are Swayed By Price, Study Shows
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, 5 minutes ago The talk about serving people at all touchpoints may be overstated — at least when it comes to first-time customers. The main marketing factor that prompts shoppers to buy from a retailer they have never purchased from before is brand messaging. That is true for 33% of shoppers, according to 2019 Customer Lifecycle Report: The Retail Shopper’s Journey To Loyalty, a study by Yes Marketing.
Dirty Data Does B2B: Why Brands Fail To Reconnect
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, 6 minutes ago An article in Harvard Business Review contends that B2B brands are losing customers because of the “increase in the number and size of mergers, the variety of choice in global markets, and uncertainty about trade wars.” Firms that have managed to reacquire lost customers “identified the reasons for the initial dissolution, applied the right cost-benefit analysis, conducted an honest conversation with the customer, and accommodated their specific...
Olde-Time Collection Tips: How To Persuade Debtors Via Email
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, 6 minutes ago The proposed change to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act -- allowing the use of email by creditors -- has caused a stir among consumer advocates. What if it is used abusively? Litigants who have pounced on abuses ranging from robocalling to nasty scripts are bound to sharpen their talons on collection firms that mess up in email (and some that don’t). Still, email is cheaper than phone calling, and far less annoying to the millennial generation.
Trolling For Customers: Retailers Spend More For Acquisition Than Retention
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, 75 minutes ago The old belief in mail order was that you tried to acquire new customers in a strong economy, then worked your customer list during a weak one. If that still holds true, the economy must be booming. Acquisition is now an investment priority for 81% of all ecommerce companies, according to How Leading Retailers And Direct-to-Consumer Brands Are Investing In Digital, a study by CommerceNext, sponsored by Oracle Customer Experience Cloud.
Trolling For Customers: Retaillers Spend More For Acquisition Than Retention
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, 5 minutes ago The old belief in mail order was that you tried to acquire new customers in a strong economy, then worked your customer list during a weak one. If that still holds true, the economy must be booming. Acquisition is now an investment priority for 81% of all ecommerce companies, according to How Leading Retailers And Direct-to-Consumer Brands Are Investing In Digital, a study by CommerceNext, sponsored by Oracle Customer Experience Cloud.
Deep Content: A Dive Into Goals And Success Metrics
by Ray Schultz , Columnist, 5 minutes ago Content marketing may be a popular tactic. But don’t think brands are planning to throw more time and money at it this year. While 68% are moderately boosting their content budgets, only 19% will make significant increases, according to Content Marketing Engagement Survey Summary Report, a study by Ascend2. But one could see that as good news: Add it up, and 87% are increasing their content budgets, the report notes.
IRS sees surge in email phishing scams; Summit Partners urge taxpayers: ‘Don’t Take the Bait’
WASHINGTON ― With the approach of the holidays and the 2019 filing season, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the nation’s tax industry warned people to be on the lookout following a surge of new, sophisticated email phishing scams. Taxpayers saw many more phishing scams in 2018 as the IRS recorded a 60 percent increase in bogus email schemes that seek to steal money or tax data.
5 Types of Employees Often Targeted By Phishing Attacks by @jackdanahy
Twenty years ago, hackers breached organizations by finding and exploiting holes at the network perimeter. To stop them, security teams focused on locking that perimeter down, creating a “hard, crunchy outside,” but they did much less to strengthen internal users, systems and networks. Modern attackers have evolved, moving to easier targets, at the organization's “soft, chewy, center” -- the users and their systems.
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