Anti-phishing, like all security, is a team sport. (Apologies for that metaphor, but football season is here.)
So join PhishMe® and other security professionals at PhishMe Submerge 2017, our second annual User Conference and Phishing Defense Summit, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, Gaylord Hotel, Washington National Harbor.
It’s fitting that National Cyber Security Awareness Month ends on Halloween. October is the time to contemplate scary things, whether ghouls, folks in lederhosen stumbling about with steins or real-deal cyber threats: phishing emails loaded with ransomware.
Part 4 in a series on being “Left of Breach” in the Phishing Kill Chain.
In part 3 we looked at Simulation Design, where we discussed utilization of simulation results analysis and active threat intelligence in anti-phishing programs. We will now take a closer look at simulation delivery practices.
We rarely find out the identities of online attackers. As a result, it is often easy to picture attackers as impartial and emotionless devices instead of humans or groups of people. However, attackers often reveal small bits of information about themselves and their personalities in the tactics, techniques, and procedures they select.
Attention incident responders: PhishMe® Submerge is for you.
Submerge 2017, our second annual User Conference and Phishing Defense Summit, offers over a dozen sessions on phishing defense alone. Overall the event will offer 30+ sessions, including another track covering phishing resilience.
While a great deal of focus for research into botnet trojans is on the multipurpose utility of this malware, many of these same tools are still utilized for direct financial crimes and fraud. This configuration data, provides a prima-facie insight into some of the preferred means for monetary gains by threat actors. An example of this can be found in the most recent rounds of TrickBot malware configurations. These XML documents describe the targeted login pages for online services and the action the malware is to take when a victim visits one. Many of the targeted resources reference the login pages for online banking portals, as many malware tools with financial-crimes capabilities often do. However, TrickBot’s targeting of cryptocurrency wallet services also an interesting insight into this malware’s targeting and its relationship to its predecessor, the Dyre trojan.
The US and UK share a lot of things. History. Political traditions. A language, if one is feeling generous. And now some worrisome phishing data that jumps out of two reports PhishMe® has commissioned, most recently in the UK.
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While sipping coffee and reading the morning headlines, the CISO notices a global mass-phishing campaign that took place overnight. Picking up the phone and calling the SOC, the CISO asks; “Are there any computers that may have been infected with ‘X’ that I read about this morning? I need answers before my meeting in an hour”.
Part 3 in a series on being “Left of Breach” in the Phishing Kill Chain.
In part 2 we looked at Self-Enumeration, assessing security and business process gaps that phishing attackers exploit. It’s the first step in being “Left of Breach” (see figure below), the process that builds a proactive phishing defense strategy.
So, you want to improve your response to phishing threats? Smart idea. PhishMe®’s recent report on phishing response trends shows that phishing is the #1 security concern, but almost half of organizations say they’re not ready for an attack.
