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Microsoft's Clever Trick Beats Google's Guard: A Simple Guide to Cybersecurity's Latest Discovery

Mail Exchange records—or MX Records—is a public way of notating the mail server responsible for receiving and sending messages. Think of it like a public address, si...

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Fake Voicemail as Credential Harvesting Lure

Hackers will try just about anything to get you to click on a malicious link.

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Conditional QR Code Routing Attacks

Over the summer, we saw a somewhat unexpected rise in QR-code-based phishing attacks.

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The Rise of Phishing Attacks with Crypto Drainers

A new report by Check Point Research illustrates a concerning rise in advanced phishing attacks that target blockchain networks by using wallet-draining techniques.

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Zero-Click Attacks Continue to Proliferate

In March of 2023, Microsoft confirmed a zero-click attack in Outlook that would compromise the end-user without them doing anything. They don’t need to click a link ...

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Phishing via Google Forms

We’ve been writing extensively about BEC 3.0 attacks.

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QR Code Attacks Have Global Reach 

Cybercriminals are launching incredibly sophisticated "quishing” campaigns armed with malicious QR codes. Attack volumes have grown 2,400% since May, including an at...

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The Rise in QR Code Attacks

Recently, we've seen a lot of news about Quishing--or QR Code phishing. This is when the link behind a QR code is malicious, but the QR code itself is not. There was...

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