Phishing awareness articles teach readers to identify and avoid phishing attacks across email, SMS, voice calls, and social media. Content includes real-world phishing examples, red flags to watch for, reporting procedures, and tips for running phishing simulation campaigns.
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In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual report showing over $12.5 billion in cybercrime losses for 2023 — with phishing and spoofing topping the list at nearly 300,000 complaints. Now, the FBI warns Gmail users of sophisticated AI-driven phishing attacks that
In January 2024, a finance employee at Arup — a multinational engineering firm — joined a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The employee transferred $25 million to accounts controlled by threat actors. The attack
In December 2017, AOL officially shut down AIM — AOL Instant Messenger — after two decades of dominance. But here's what most people don't realize: millions of old AIM email addresses and their associated credentials are still circulating on dark web marketplaces in 2024. I've personally
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center released data showing that phishing was still the number one reported cybercrime — for the fifth year running. Over 298,000 complaints in 2023 alone. Despite billions spent on email filters and endpoint protection, threat actors keep winning because the
In June 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after receiving what appeared to be legitimate emails and even joining a deepfake video call with someone impersonating the company's CFO. The attack started with fake emails. Every single
In January 2023, PayPal disclosed that threat actors had compromised nearly 35,000 user accounts through credential stuffing — not by breaking PayPal's systems, but by exploiting reused passwords harvested from other breaches. That incident made headlines, but it's the quieter, daily grind of PayPal phishing attacks
In March 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25 million to threat actors after joining a video call that turned out to be entirely deepfake — triggered by a single phishing link in an email. That link didn't contain a virus. It didn&
In May 2024, a Google security consultant named Sam Mitrovic nearly fell for a phishing call that used a convincing AI-generated voice impersonating Google support. The caller had a legitimate-looking Google phone number, referenced real account activity, and spoke with the polished fluency of a native English speaker. The only
In January 2024, a finance worker at a multinational firm in Hong Kong transferred $25.6 million to criminals after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call was a deepfake. The entire operation was coordinated by
Earlier this year, security researchers documented a surge in phishing campaigns that abuse legitimate DocuSign and PayPal infrastructure to deliver convincing attack emails. The twist? These messages aren't spoofed — they're actually sent through real PayPal and DocuSign servers. That's why PayPal DocuSign phishing attacks
