Phish Found in Proofpoint-Protected Environments Week ending January 22, 2021
January 22, 2021 by Cofense in PhishingProofpointSEG MissesZoom Phish Sent Via Constant Contact Mailer
January 21, 2021 by Cofense in PhishingCoronavirus Screening and Testing Phishing Emails, and a Sense of Urgency Among Employees
January 12, 2021 by Cofense in PhishingSecure Mailer Phish: A New Method of Swiping Users’ Credentials?
January 7, 2021 by Cofense in PhishingPhish Found in Proofpoint-Protected Environments Week ending January 15, 2021
January 15, 2021 by Cofense in PhishingProofpointSEG MissesPhishing Emails: All I Wanted Was for 2020 to End
January 4, 2021 by Cofense in PhishingBy Dylan Duncan 2020 was far from ordinary. And at the end, we learned one thing for sure: threat actors’ abilities to quickly adjust their methods to world events are pretty uncanny. Like the rest of us, they must be news junkies, too. Every year, we see threat actors improve their methods and adapt to world events, bringing new trends to the phishing threat landscape. Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic in particular brought an unprecedented amount of disruption and financial hardship, directly leading to an increase in both volume and variety of threat activity. Threat actors continued to advance their tactics, techniques and procedures to ensure their emails would reach...
Emotet is Back for the Holidays with Updated Tactics
December 22, 2020 by Cofense in PhishingBy Brad Haas After a lull of nearly two months, the Emotet botnet has returned with updated payloads. The changes are likely meant to help Emotet avoid detection both by victims and network defenders. Apart from these updates, the campaigns’ targeting, tactics and secondary payloads remain consistent with previous active periods. Cofense Intelligence™ released a flash alert on the newest Emotet activity to customers with details about its new features. Emotet Background and 2020 Activity The Emotet botnet is one of the most prolific senders of malicious emails when it is active, but it regularly goes dormant for weeks or months at a time. This year, one such hiatus lasted from February through...