Author name: ThreatScout

MFA Never Saw the Phishing. SMTP Did.

Your mailbox can be abused without anyone opening webmail. Most people treat a hacked email as: someone logged into Gmail in a browser. A lot of real incidents are quieter. Someone gets a SMTP password, sends mail as you, and never touches the inbox. SMTP is how servers and apps send mail: WordPress, a monitoring […]

Phishing Awareness

Phishing Awareness: Spotting and Stopping Email Scams

Phishing Awareness / ThreatScout

What is Phishing? Phishing is the fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages pretending to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. These can come in many forms, in addition to email, such as SMS phishing through text message, voice phishing