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Phishing Attacks

In-depth coverage of phishing attacks, including spear phishing, whaling, vishing, and smishing campaigns. Posts analyze attack methods, explore recent phishing trends, and provide defensive strategies that help organizations reduce their exposure to credential theft and data breaches.

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FakeEmail

FakeEmail Attacks: How Spoofed Messages Breach Networks

A Single FakeEmail Cost One Company $37 Million In 2024, Orion SA, a Luxembourg-based steel trading company, disclosed it lost approximately $60 million after an employee was tricked by a business email compromise scheme using fraudulent email communications. That same year, the FBI's IC3 received over 21,000

Carl B. Johnson Apr 05, 2019 7 min read
Fake Mailer

Fake Mailer Attacks: How Threat Actors Spoof Email

In March 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — much of it powered by spoofed sender addresses — cost victims over $2.9 billion in a single year. Behind many of those attacks sits a deceptively simple weapon: a fake mailer. These tools let

Carl B. Johnson Mar 10, 2019 7 min read