May 08 2022

1000s of phishing emails sent from NHS inboxes

Category: PhishingDISC @ 10:44 am

New research from the email security firm Inky has revealed that more than 1000 emails were sent from NHS inboxes over a six month period.

The firm has claimed that the campaign, beginning October 2021, escalated “dramatically” in March of this year.

After the findings were reported to the NHS on April 13, Inky reported that the volume of attacks fell significantly to just a “few”.

“The majority were fake new document notifications with malicious links to credential harvesting sites that targeted Microsoft credentials. All emails also had the NHS email footer at the bottom,” Inky explained.

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Oct 13 2021

Cybersecurity awareness month: Fight the phish!

Category: Information Security,PhishingDISC @ 8:44 am

It’s the second week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, and this week’s theme is an alliterative reminder: Fight the Phish!

Unfortunately, anti-phishing advice often seems to fall on deaf ears, because phishing is an old cybercrime trick, and lots of people seem to think it’s what computer scientists or mathematical analysts call a solved game.

Tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses outside North America), for example, is a solved game, because it’s easy to create a list of every possible play, and figure out the best possible move from every game position on the list. (If neither player makes a mistake then the game will always be a draw.)

Even games that are enormously more complex have been “solved” in this way too, such as checkers (draughts)…

…and in comparison to playing checkers, spotting phishing scams feels like an easy contest that the recipient of the message should always win.

And if phishing is a “solved game”, surely it’s not worth worrying about any more?

How hard can it be?

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Tags: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, Fight the phish, phishing, phishing countermeasures, Phishing Dark Waters