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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That Gmail Alert Isn't Always What It Seems In September 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned that threat actors were increasingly spoofing legitimate security alerts to steal credentials. One of the most common lures? A fake Gmail account access warning that looks virtually
In early 2022, the FBI issued a stark warning: cybercriminals were registering over 10,000 malicious domains specifically designed to support SMS phishing — or "smishing" — campaigns targeting American consumers. These weren't sloppy, typo-filled messages from a decade ago. They were polished, urgent, and devastatingly effective. The
One Clicked Link Cost This Company Everything In September 2022, a single employee at Uber clicked a link in a social engineering attack. The threat actor, reportedly affiliated with Lapsus$, used that foothold to access internal systems, Slack channels, and cloud infrastructure. The breach made global headlines — not because Uber&
Twilio, a company with a sophisticated security team and a tech-savvy workforce, got phished in August 2022. Attackers sent SMS messages to employees pretending to be the IT department, directing them to a fake login page. The result: compromised credentials, unauthorized access to customer data, and a breach that rippled
In March 2022, the FBI warned that business email compromise schemes — many of which rely heavily on spoofing — had caused over $43 billion in global losses since 2016. That's not a typo. Forty-three billion. And the most unsettling part? The attacks didn't require elite hacking skills.
In March 2022, the threat actor group Lapsus$ breached Okta by spear phishing a single support engineer at a third-party contractor. That one compromised account gave the attackers a foothold that ultimately affected roughly 366 Okta customers. Not a mass email blast. Not a Nigerian prince scam. One carefully researched,
The FBI Warns Gmail Users of Sophisticated AI-Driven Phishing Attacks — And Most People Aren't Ready Earlier this year, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported that phishing schemes — including business email compromise — accounted for over $2.7 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. Now,
The FBI Is Warning Gmail Users — And Most People Aren't Listening In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual report showing that phishing — including attacks targeting Gmail users specifically — generated more victim complaints than any other cybercrime category. Over 300,000
The FBI Warning on Vishing and Smishing You Can't Afford to Ignore In January 2022, the FBI released an advisory warning that criminals were increasingly using voice phishing (vishing) and SMS phishing (smishing) to steal credentials, drain bank accounts, and breach corporate networks. This wasn't a
Your Old AIM Email Account Is a Bigger Problem Than You Think In December 2017, AOL officially shut down AIM — AOL Instant Messenger. But here's what most people missed: the AIM email addresses and associated credentials didn't just vanish. They ended up in breach databases, credential
