spearphishing Archives

USAID blankets being distributed by Mercy Corps wait to be loaded onto trucks at Chaklala airport October 31,2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

USAID hit with cyberattack by Russian-backed group Nobelium: Microsoft

Hackers are believed to have accessed the agency's Constant Contact email marketing service account.

May 28, 2021 By Billy Mitchell

Dana Deasy, Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, and Air Force Lt. Gen. B.J. Shwedo, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4)/Cyber, and Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff, J6, hold a media briefing on the COVID-19 Telework Readiness Task Force on Monday, April 13, in the Pentagon Briefing Room. The briefing covered the department’s efforts to expand network capacity due to maximized telework during the COVID-19 National Emergency. Additionally, the participants discussed how the department is enhancing collaboration platforms while maintaining a cybersecurity-first mindset. (DoD photo by Marvin Lynchard)

DOD’s enhanced IT, teleworking capabilities are here to stay

Many of the DOD's new coronavirus teleworking capabilities will stick around.

Apr 13, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

SAM.gov hackers used spearphishing, spoofing, credential theft

An executive whose company was affected the breach of GSA's SAM.gov portal explains how it all went down.

Mar 30, 2018 By Shaun Waterman

Research looks at why phishing attacks are so hard to avoid

During a Wednesday session at the 2016 Black Hat USA security conference, researcher Zinaida Benenson highlighted two studies she and a team of researchers conducted to find…

Aug 4, 2016