Security Awareness – Trustworthy Brands Make for Convincing Scams

As a society, we’ve largely grasped the age-old “don’t click on things you don’t recognize” advice; however, threat actors turned that age-old advice against us years ago. The success of social engineering based cyber attacks relies on trust and it’s that trust the well-known brands have already engendered that give scams the air of credibility. But, just because it appears trustworthy, doesn’t mean it’s to be trusted.