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Frequently, when a cybersecurity training manager sends out a controversial simulated phishing attack message that angers a bunch of employees and ends up making headlines, we get called by the media to comment on the story. Here are some examples of potentially controversial simulated phishing messages: I have read many stories of security awareness training managers sending simulated phishing emails with these types of messages, often around Christmas or other national holidays.

In recent years, the world of cybersecurity has witnessed a concerning trend: a significant increase in phishing attacks. A new study reveals that these attacks have surged by nearly 40% in the year ending August, 2024. What's particularly alarming is the role played by new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in this spike. While gTLDs like.shop, .top, and.xyz make up only 11% of new domain registrations, they account for a staggering 37% of reported cybercrime domains.

Every day, threat actors devise new plans for breaking into secure systems. The steps they take, from researching a target to carrying out the attack, are known as the cyber kill chain. Traditionally, that kill chain has targeted devices and networks that lie completely within your organization’s control. For better or worse, mobile and cloud-based work have upended that dynamic.

The latest data on brand phishing trends shows one brand dominating quarter over quarter, but also continuing to take on a larger share of the brand impersonation. Take a guess which brand tops the list as the most impersonated in phishing attacks? If you guessed Microsoft, you’d be right. You’d also have been right last quarter, and the quarter before that – according to Check Point Research.

We are excited to see the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and outgoing Director Jen Easterly strongly recommend PHISHING-RESISTANT multi-factor authentication (MFA). The majority of people, including the majority of cybersecurity practitioners, do not know that most MFA…especially the most popular types used today (e.g., one-time passwords, pushed-based, SMS-based, etc.), can be as easily phished or bypassed as the passwords they were intended to replace.

Welcome to the second part of our investigation into the Rockstar kit, please check out part one here. This blog tackles real-world Rockstar 2FA email examples incorporating noteworthy techniques.

Analysis of a new phishing attack highlight just how easy it can be to spot these kinds of attacks if recipients were properly educated. Action Fraud, the U.K.’s national fraud & cyber reporting center, recently warned U.K. residents of a scam impersonating Starbucks.

Trustwave SpiderLabs has been actively monitoring the rise of Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms, which are increasingly popular among threat actors. In our previous blog, we explored the appeal of these platforms and discussed various major phishing kits today. In this two-part blog, we'll focus on a phishing kit named ‘Rockstar 2FA’ that is linked to widespread adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing attacks.

We probably do not need to cover this, but we’ll provide a quick overview – M365 has a host of advantages, including scalability and convenience. Because the platform is cloud-based, businesses can effortlessly access their data and applications and shift to fully remote or hybrid working models without the common challenges of such a transition.