Talos Takes Ep. #73 (NCSAM edition): Fight the phish from land, sea and air
Summary: In this National Cybersecurity Awareness Month episode of Talos Takes, Jaeson Schultz discusses the basics of spam in 2021, noting that attackers now reach users through text messages, phone calls and several layers of communication rather than only email. He describes recent campaigns asking victims to call a specific phone number and offers basic spam advice listeners can pass along to less technical relatives.
What's compelling: The phish no longer arrives only as a badly photoshopped lottery email; campaigns that push a victim to dial a phone number move the attack onto a channel where email filtering and link scanners have nothing to inspect.
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