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Active Phishing Campaign: Yousign HR Lure

By Meriam Senouci on Thu, 05/23/2024
A new, sophisticated active phishing campaigns focuses on malicious emails that leverage Yousign e-signature services to carry out phishing attacks. Learn more about this tactic through examples, high-level details, and associated threat indicators.
Online Impersonation
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Intelligence Assessments

Fortra’s PhishLabs Intelligence Assessments provide a better understanding of the threat landscape, threat actor behavior, and the types of threats targeting organizations. Learn how Intelligence Assessments leverage a combination of threat intelligence feeds, advanced analytics, and expert analysis to help organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture.
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Identify and Disrupt Threats Before Attackers Strike

Join us as Fortra experts detail expanded capabilities, insight, and anti-threat measures to better address blind spots, proactively disrupt threat actors, prevent fraud, and enrich security. Attendees will learn about the newly expanded capabilities, including: Compromised Credentials Monitoring enables users to proactively defend against fraud...
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Social Platform Impersonations: Types, Consequences, and Defenses

Social media is bigger than ever and threats are getting more sophisticated, but gone are the days when people could simply request to have an impersonation removed. Learn how to sift through the social media threat noise and get effective mitigation of social media threats including impersonations.
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Fortra Threat Intelligence Services

Fortra’s Threat Intelligence services empower enterprises to take proactive measures against threats by delivering critical insight to disrupt threat actors, prevent fraud, and enrich security controls.
Executive Attacks on Social Media Hit All-Time High as Analysts Point to AI
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Executive Attacks on Social Media Hit All-Time High as Analysts Point to AI

By Jessica Ryan on Tue, 01/16/2024
Executive impersonation on social media is at an all-time high as threat actors take advantage of AI to improve and scale their attacks. In Q3, accounts pretending to belong to high-ranking executives on social media climbed to more than 54% of total impersonation volume, surpassing brand attacks for the first time since Fortra began tracking this data. The volume and composition of these attacks...
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On-Demand Webinar: Handling Threats That Land in User Inboxes

The risk of a user receiving a socially engineered attack is higher than ever, and technological solutions often miss the most devastating of them. Though technology is both an important and required component in protecting the enterprise, security teams need to remain vigilant and educated on quickly identifying threats which make it past...
Account Takeover Protection
Executive Protection
Online Impersonation
External Data Leaks
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Digital Risk Protection: Evolving Your Cyber Threat Intel Program Into Action

Now Available On-demand Digital Risk Protection is an emerging technology that is on the rise in Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Security Operations. In this webinar, PhishLabs’ Manager of Solutions Engineering, Eric George, will break down Digital Risk Protection, explain how it works, and share recent use cases. You will learn how enterprises use...
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Key Insights from the 2023 Cyberthreat Defense Report

Eric George, Director of Solutions Engineering at Fortra, and Steve Piper, CEO of CyberEdge The 2023 Cyberthreat Defense Report provides deep insight into the perspectives of cybersecurity professionals. Join us to learn what your peers are thinking and doing Thursday, May 4, at 11 a.m. ET. Eric George, Director of Solutions Engineering at Fortra, and Steve Piper, CEO of CyberEdge, will present...
Account Takeover Protection
Online Impersonation
Top Brand Threats and Defense Tactics
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Brand Threats Masterclass

In 2024, organizations face growing brand protection challenges with online impersonation attacks targeting their assets through non-traditional means. These attacks are spanning channels not typically protected by corporate controls and leveraging AI to generate lures, making detection increasingly broad and mitigation nuanced. To better understand the top brand risks, Fortra held a roundtable...
Account Takeover Protection
External Data Leaks
Free Domain Abuse Plummets in Q1 as Staging Methods Shift
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LastPass and Fortra’s PhishLabs Work Together to Protect Customers From Phishing Scams

Tue, 09/26/2023
One of our Digital Risk Protection service customers, LastPass, is committed to monitoring the cyber threat environment to keep our customers as secure as possible. To highlight this commitment, we want to call attention to recent joint efforts to disrupt a phishing campaign targeting LastPass customers and associates that began two weeks ago. We are sharing this with you not because it is a new...
Social Media Attacks Targeting Banks See Greatest Increase Since 2021
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Social Media Attacks Targeting Banks See Greatest Increase Since 2021

By Jessica Ryan on Thu, 09/07/2023
Banks were targeted on social media more in Q2, after the largest spike in activity since 2021, according to Fortra’s PhishLabs. While cybercriminal focus on financial institutions remains high, the average number of social media attacks per business, per month in 2023 is trending lower than in 2022. In Q2 specifically, businesses experienced nearly 18 fewer attacks on social channels on average...
Phishing Sites Impersonating Social Media Jump in Q2
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Phishing Sites Impersonating Social Media Jump in Q2

By Jessica Ryan on Thu, 08/10/2023
In Q2, phishing attacks targeting social media platforms increased more than 23%, according to Fortra’s PhishLabs. This is the greatest volume of attacks on social media in two years and puts the industry ahead of historically top targeted financial institutions. Every quarter, Fortra’s PhishLabs examines hundreds of thousands of phishing attacks targeting enterprises and their brands. In this...
Social Media Security Awareness: What you Should Know
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Social Media Security Awareness: What you Should Know

Thu, 08/03/2023
The latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations report indicates that over 70% of data breaches involved the human element. Cybercriminals exploit people to trick them into clicking unsafe links, opening malicious attachments, entering their credentials into bogus login pages, sharing sensitive data, and authorizing fraudulent fund transfers. One area where many exploits take place is on social...
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Social Media Intelligence: Real World Threats, Real World Impact

Each day, 3.5 billion people use some form of social media. This is close to half of the global population. Because of the wide spread use and adoption of these various platforms, threat actors are increasing the abuse of both the brands and their accounts faster than any other digital medium. Moreover, most platforms lack the necessary security controls to protect their users. This creates a...
Common Social Media Scams and How to Avoid Them
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Common Social Media Scams and How to Avoid Them

Thu, 07/13/2023
While there are an estimated 30,000 daily cyber attacks on business websites, there are roughly ten times as many attacks against social media accounts every single day, equating to roughly 1.4 billion accounts every month. Social media attacks and scams have become pervasive problems, with threat actors finding innovative new ways to deceive users and steal their information. While social media...
Social Media Attacks Targeting Banks and Retail Climb in Q1
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Social Media Attacks Targeting Banks and Retail Climb in Q1

By Jessica Ryan on Thu, 06/08/2023
Social media attacks targeting businesses have jumped 12.2% in Q1 from the previous quarter, according to Fortra’s PhishLabs. Attacks on social channels are also trending higher than Q1 2022, with the average business experiencing more than 81 attacks per month. External platforms, such as social media, are widely used by cybercriminals to engage in fraud and distribute misinformation. Threatening...
Top Tactics of BEC Attacks in 2023
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Top Tactics of BEC Attacks in 2023

By Jessica Ryan on Thu, 04/27/2023
Email impersonation is the fastest growing and most successful means of bypassing email security controls. In Q4 2022, the response-based and credential theft attacks that make up email impersonation reached their highest percentage of share of all email threat volume, contributing to more than 97% of attacks reported by end users. In this series, we look at the top email impersonation threats...
What to Know About Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scams
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What to Know About Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scams

Thu, 04/06/2023
Business email compromise (BEC) is a dangerous type of email spoofing that targets businesses, aiming to damage them in some way. Overall, BEC “is one of the most financially damaging online crimes,” according to a joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the US Department of...
Impersonation Represents the Top Social Media Threat in Q4
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Impersonation Represents the Top Social Media Threat in Q4

By Jessica Ryan on Thu, 03/02/2023
Social media attacks targeting organizations closed out 2022 nearly 19% higher than Q4 of 2021, according to Fortra’s PhishLabs. Social platforms continue to act as a hotbed for malicious activity, leaving organizations of all sizes vulnerable to impersonation and abuse. As of Q4, businesses can expect an average of 72.54 attacks on social media per month. PhishLabs analyzes hundreds of...