The Psychology of Phishing: Why Even Smart People Click (And How to Stop It) You’ve run the training. You’ve sent the fake phishing tests. Yet, that one well-crafted email still slips through, and a smart, capable employee clicks. The immediate response is often frustration: “Weren’t they paying attention?” The truth is, phishing isn’t a failure […]
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Business Email Compromise (BEC): The Billion-Dollar Threat Hiding in Plain Sight While ransomware grabs headlines, a far more insidious and costly threat is quietly draining corporate bank accounts: Business Email Compromise (BEC). The FBI’s IC3 reports annual losses exceeding $2.4 billion, dwarfing many other cybercrimes. The genius—and danger—of BEC is its simplicity. It requires no malicious
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The Twitter Bitcoin Scam (2020): A Real-World Social Engineering Case Study It’s one of the most famous real-world cyber attacks in recent memory. In July 2020, verified Twitter accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Kanye West were suddenly tweeting the same shocking message: “I am giving back to the
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