In this IT Security Wire article, cybersecurity experts Eric George and Tom Gorup, Vice President of Security Operations at Fortra’s Alert Logic, share their 2023 cybersecurity predictions. Originally published in IT Security Wire “PaaS (phishing-as-a-service) platforms simplify the creation and execution of credential theft phishing attacks which target the customers or employees of enterprise...

Hybrid Vishing Attacks Increased in Volume by 625% since Q1 2021 MINNEAPOLIS – August 15, 2022 – Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41 percent of all email-based scams targeting employees, during Q2 of this year. This is according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs, part...

More Than a 5x Increase in Vishing Attacks Year-over-Year Reported MINNEAPOLIS – May 23, 2022 – Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs, both of which are part of the Fortra cybersecurity portfolio. In Q1 2022, Agari and...

MINNEAPOLIS March 9, 2022—Fortra announced today it has signed a merger agreement to acquire Alert Logic, a well-known leader in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Alert Logic works as a seamless extension of security teams, augmenting existing cybersecurity resources and technology to safeguard on-premise, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid infrastructures. The company’s MDR solution focuses on...

PhishLabs Threat Trends and Intelligence Report show attacks grow 31.5% year-to-date over 2020, with social media attacks continuing to climb; September more than doubles its phishing activity over the same month last year. November 9, 2021, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs by Fortra, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, today released their Quarterly Threat Trends and...

MINNEAPOLIS (October 19, 2021)—Fortra announced today the acquisition of PhishLabs, a leading cyber threat intelligence company that protects organizations from attacks on their brands, employees, and digital assets. PhishLabs sources intelligence across the internet to proactively find and mitigate digital risks. The team and solutions from PhishLabs will join Fortra’ growing cybersecurity...

September 8, 2021, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, has been recognized as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies in Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list. The Inc. 5000 list is a unique look at the most successful companies within America’s economy and considered the most prestigious ranking of independent small businesses. “Look...

Quarterly Threat Trends and Intelligence Report Finds Increase in Phishing Attacks Year-to-Date Over the First Six Months of 2020; Qbot More Than Half of Payloads Encountered, as Darkside and Others Go Offline August 17, 2021, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, today released their Quarterly Threat Trends and Intelligence Report. Overall, the...

Charleston-based cybersecurity company is named a top employer. August 11, 2021, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work for the sixth consecutive year. The award recognizes top-notch employers who continue to put their employees first during these challenging times. Check out career opportunities...

Phishing Attacks Increase 47% in Q1 May 26, 2021, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, today released their Q1 Threat Trends & Intelligence Report. PhishLabs analyzed and mitigated hundreds of thousands of attacks targeting enterprise brands and employees in the first quarter of 2021. The report uses data from those attacks to determine key trends...

Charleston-based cybersecurity company is named a top employer in South Carolina. July 20, 2020, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina for the fifth consecutive year. The award honors the state’s top-notch employers who create a positive work environment where employees can...

Charleston, S.C., July 25, 2019 — Today, PhishLabs announced it has been recognized by Gartner in the July 2019 Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training. PhishLabs is the only vendor in Gartner’s current Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training evaluation that delivers security awareness training exclusively as a managed service. “We believe being...

June 25, 2019, Charleston, SC – PhishLabs, the leading provider in protecting against cyber threats that exploit employees, customers, and brands, has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina for the fourth consecutive year. Companies throughout the state entered a two-part survey process, which evaluated workplace policies, practices, and culture, and included an...

Originally published in BLEEPINGCOMPUTER Excerpt: "U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of millions of incidents analyzed during the last year by threat intelligence company PhishLabs." Read the full article here. ...

Overall phishing attack volume grew 40.9% in 2018 Charleston, S.C., April 16, 2019 – PhishLabs, the leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect against social engineering, today released its 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report. Using data collected from millions of social engineering attacks spanning email, web, social media, SMS, and mobile channels, the report highlights...

Half of all phishing sites now have padlocks, but are anything but secure Originally published in TechRadar Excerpt: "The padlock icon next to a web address used to let users know that a site is legitimate and secure but now new research from PhishLabs suggests that this is no longer the case as have of all phishing scams are now hosted on websites that have the padlock and begin with HTTPS."...

Winners announced at InfoSec World 2017 in Orlando. Charleston, S.C., April 20, 2017 – PhishLabs, the leading provider of 24/7 phishing defense and intelligence solutions, today announced it was recently ranked highest in cybersecurity client experience in the category of Cybercrime Threat Intelligence by Black BookTM of Cybersecurity LLC, a division of Brown-Wilson Group, Inc. The announcement...

The FBI dubbed the category of attacks “business email compromise” in an August advisory. At that time, the Bureau estimated that, since 2013, the total dollar losses to American companies exceeded $740 million, while only hitting around 7,000 targets. When international victims are added in, the losses total $1.2 billion. Don Jackson, threat researcher and malware analyst for PhishLabs explains,...

It’s happened again. Scammers have leveraged Phishing to gain access to W2 information at several firms, including technology powerhouse Seagate. No company is immune to these types of social attacks, and organizations both large and small have become victims to a finance-based scheme that has a long reach. Last week, Sunday in fact, Snapchat disclosed that someone had posed as the company’s CEO...

From Bloomberg The malware known as ZeuS and its rogue creator have been at the cutting edge of cyber-crime for nearly a decade. With repeated enhancements, ZeuS and its offspring became juggernauts of cyber bank robbery—turning millions of computers into global networks of zombie machines enslaved by criminals. Conservative estimates of their haul reach well into hundreds of millions of dollars...