A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Modern Phishing Email Content

Phishing remains one of the most pervasive threats to Internet users, and email remains its predominant delivery channel. Email content is the attack surface of phishing: it is what the victim reads and what automated defenses inspect. Yet the composition of modern phishing content is poorly...

How IT teams can prevent phishing attacks with Malwarebytes DNS filtering

Phishing attacks are a persistent threat to businesses globally. According to Verizon, 82 percent of data breaches in 2021 involved the human element--with phishing attacks making up over 60 precent of these. And if it aint broke, dont fix it: threat actors have only continued to use phishing to...

Major BEC Phishing Ring Cracked Open with 3 Arrests

Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise BEC ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation resulted in the arrest of the Nigerian nationals, believed to be responsible for distributing...

BEC Attacks: Nigeria No Longer the Epicenter as Losses Top $26B

A study of more than 9,000 instances of business email compromise BEC attacks all over the world shows that the number has skyrocketed over the past year, and that the social-engineering scam has expanded well beyond its historic roots in Nigeria. The report from Agari’s Cyber Intelligence Divisi...

Something else is phishy: How to detect phishing attempts on mobile

In a report published in 2011, IBM revealed that mobile users are three times more likely to fall for phishing scams compared to desktop users. This claim was based on accessed log files found on Web servers used to host websites involved in phishing campaigns. Almost a decade later, we continue ...

Report: Phishing and Scareware on The Rise

According to a report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG, the number of phishing incidents and rogue anti-malware programs also known as scareware are rising at an “unprecedented rate”. The APWG says that around four fifths of the phishing attack websites claim to offer payment and financial...