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The benefits of security awareness: defending against phishing, social engineering, and related threats

We live in an era where digital technology permeates every aspect of our daily lives. Email, online banking, social networks, and corporate collaboration platforms have become indispensable tools. However, where...

FlawedGrace RAT

21 Mar

FlawedGrace is the name of a Remote Access Threat (RAT) that is part of the menacing arsenal of the financially motivated cyber criminals gang known as TA505 (or Hive0065). The...

Legitimate Sites used as Cobalt Strike C2s against Indian Government

04 Mar

Introduction Telsy Threat Intelligence team observed an attack against members of the Indian government or local institutions, which uses social engineering themes as an investigation for a cyber attack or...

The Phishing as a Service (PHaaS)

17 Jan

Phishing is a common way for cybercriminals to dupe people through socially-engineered emails into giving up their credentials to online accounts that can store sensitive data. Phishers use these emails—which...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games & cyber threats

28 Jul

The organizing committee of the Tokyo2020 Olympics has decided to use the expertise of about 200 ethical hackers to protect their infrastructures from possible cyberattacks. Organizers fear that history may...

Phishing: how to detect one of the subtlest online threats

22 Feb

Phishing is one of the subtlest cyber threats in the dark world. The world has been witnessing a surge in phishing attacks since the pandemic outbreak. It may be extremely...

COVID-19 vaccine: beware of phishing

11 Jan

Have you received a strange e-mail about COVID-19, offering you various solutions to buy an under-the-counter vaccine currently in distribution? Think twice before clicking on any link. In addition to...

The guy who hacked Twitter: “Kirk” and the human factor

24 Dec

It was a 17-year-old hacker who managed to persuade some Twitter employees that he was a collaborator of the technology department who needed the credentials to log into the customer...

Coronavirus: reported a new campaign of spear phishing attacks to steal personal data

14 Apr

A few days ago, on the 27th of March, industry reporting signalled a new campaign of Covid-19/ coronavirus-themed spear phishing attacks that illegitimately uses the WHO (World Health Organization) mark,...