HR bonus-themed phishing attack looks to exploit year-end processes

HR bonus-themed phishing attack looks to exploit year-end processes

Mimecast emphasises the importance of user awareness training amid the recent detection of an HR bonus-themed phishing attack. South African businesses are being targeted by an active credential harvesting campaign. The campaign uses compromised e-mail accounts to distribute HR-themed phishing messages that impersonate DocuSign and company-specific HR departments. This is according to Mimecast’s Threat Research…

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Hacking humans: AI raises the bar for phishing

Hacking humans: AI raises the bar for phishing

Barry Neethling, Chief Technology Officer for First Technology Group. (Image: Supplied) Humans – long acknowledged as the weakest link in cyber security – are now weaker than ever before in the face of advanced AI phishing and hacking techniques. This risk is increasing as the end of Windows 10 support looms. This is according to…

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