The PhishLabs Blog

After months of talks, budget approvals, and getting stakeholder buy in, you finally have the security awareness tool of your choice ready to be used. You get some welcome emails, an onboarding conversation with a customer account manager, and then…..?

Over the past few years mobile banking trojans have been a persistent threat.

While Windows desktops and laptops once made up the lion’s share of Internet traffic, mobile devices (particularly Android) have long since become the most common means of browsing the web.

With banking trojans now incorporating such a wide range of malicious functionality, it’s hardly surprising they have become a favorite among malicious actors.

Each year in our Phishing Trends and Intelligence (PTI) report our team highlights the continued growth and impact email-based phishing attacks continue to have on brands and people around the globe. In following these trends, email-based attacks are still steadily growing in numbers; however, this begs the question of what the future holds.

More specifically, at what point will phishing emails plateau and something else take its place?

In today’s 24/7 world, whether you are in the car, on the road, on vacation, out to lunch or dinner or even on a plane, connectivity is assumed. Often getting connected is one of the first priorities when you arrive at a new place, but using a public wifi network carries some risk. The very same qualities that make public wifi the network with access to much of the information that is on your device. When you communicate over the network, others can be listening in….

Most organizations already have policies and procedures in place to encourage your employees to act in a professional manner while at work. But in our modern connected age, social media makes it easier than ever for anyone tied to your brand to be a vocal representation of who you are and what you do.

Tax season may be over, but that doesn't stop fraudsters from trying to convince you that your taxes could land you in jail. It's a common vishing scheme, powered by robocalls, and there are just as many email phishing schemes to go along with it.

It’s like something straight out of a bad action film: someone slips information on Twitter stating that they are planning a bank robbery or threaten an organization with a bomb.

In the Oscar-winning movie The Sting, Harry Gondorff (played by Paul Newman) explains to his apprentice Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) that the con that they set up must be so convincing that their mark, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) won’t even realize that he’s been taken.

As a marketer I am all too familiar with how social media can benefit or damage a brand.

Reported phishing emails are useful for plenty of reasons.