With more businesses functioning online, exposure to computers and the Internet has increased manifold. Thus, you have cybercriminals growing in number as well. Hackers are becoming more intelligent than before. However, phishing is still the top threat among all breaches analyzed over the past one year. Therefore, it has become imperative for business organizations to know about phishing and phishing protection methods to apply to prevent them.
We shall now talk about some of the common types of phishing and see how organizations can defend themselves against them.
It is imperative for organizations to understand the latest threats and predictions for cybercrimes and security moving into the new year. This text looks at the top cybercrime and security predictions for 2023 and suggests what individuals and organizations need to do.
With alarming data and statistics sharing the increase in password attacks and rising password compromise and account takeovers, there is a need for a change in login methods and password protection. This text shares password statistics, the need for password protection, novel passwordless approaches, and steps you can take to protect your passwords.
Email threats, phishing, impersonation, and advanced email threats are on the rise, and Tessian’s State of Email Security Report shares valuable intel into how significant these threats have gotten. This text summarizes the report’s findings and shares how organizations can protect against advanced email threats in the coming time.
The digital world is gripped with alarming news and novel scams each week. This week’s cybersecurity bulletin shares the top cybersecurity news covering Russian data breaches, extortion scams, fresh IceXLoader malware campaign, China’s spying activities, and Google’s SEO poisoning. Let us take a look.
Threat actors are developing advanced and sophisticated techniques to target organizations worldwide with new tools. This week’s top cybersecurity news highlights new double extortion tools, why Google is being sued, the FBI’s warning to US students, the cyber espionage campaign on Asian casinos, 2.2 million stolen customer records, and OldGremlin targeting Russia with ransomware.
With the surge in cybercrimes and continuously evolving attack methods, being cyber smart is something every employee and individual should aspire to become for protection against cyber threats. Here is how you can become cyber smart with select cybersecurity tips.
A malicious campaign targeting Slovakian internet users is another grim reminder of how phishing operators use legitimate brands and services to evade security controls. The article discusses how attackers used a trusted domain like LinkedIn to bypass secure email gateways.
Microsoft has discovered a PSOA, a cyber mercenary organization with sophisticated hiring tools that can allow threat actors to exploit Windows and Adobe vulnerabilities for malicious activities. This article looks at KNOTWEED, the identified threat, what it is, how KNOTWEED works, and how you can identify and protect yourself from KNOTWEED. (more…)
Email scams continue to pose significant risks to online data, finances, and accounts. This article discusses the elements involved, the top email scams of the year, and the practices that cybercriminals are using for evolved email scams. It also shares key statistics for email and phishing scams and how to avoid all email scams.
Constantly working to save Google and its users from serious threats, the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) continues to publish analyses on various evolving threats like commercial surveillance vendors, serious criminal operators, and government-backed attackers. Continuing the legacy, they recently shared intelligence on a new segment of attackers called hack-for-hire. Such hackers focus on compromising victims’ accounts and extracting data as a service. Read on to know more about this group.
This article provides an overview of the joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) on the Maui ransomware, which has been used by North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors to attack Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector organizations.
The current situation of OT products has revealed a tough spot, highlighting 56 vulnerabilities. With over ten vendors, including the likes of Siemens, Emerson, Honeywell, and more, the latest vulnerabilities in various popular protocols and products have certainly provided a new perspective.
The Internet is a vast place. It is estimated that there are close to 2 billion websites online in 2022. Each of these websites has a unique hostname, or ‘domain’, that can be resolved into an IP address.
Whilst anyone can access these websites, one should note that some domains are more ‘valuable’ than others. Domains that include relevant keywords are more likely to show at the top of search engine results, directing more traffic to those sites. For example, a Google search for “how to make a voicemail” may direct you to websites with the word ‘voicemail’ in the domain name.
Microsoft recently discovered high-severity vulnerabilities in a mobile framework owned by mce Systems and used by several large mobile service providers. These vulnerabilities are likely to be attack vectors for attackers to access system configurations and sensitive information.
Today, the digital revolution has come to a stage where businesses without an online presence could get obliterated in no time. However, an inevitable consequence of cyber risk is that if your online data and communication are not secure, you better be prepared for a disaster.
Social engineering serves as an open back door for cybercriminals. Attackers don’t bother to create an elaborate plan of how to get into a company’s system. Phishing can guarantee their goal will be achieved. According to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, this attack is leading the top of breaches in 2020 with 38%. That explains the serious financial company losses due to phishing. Let’s find out what it is and how to identify it.
$5.3 billion – this is the FBI’s estimate of the total losses in the last three years suffered by businesses around the world to phishing attacks. Understandably, phishing is a severe crime in the cyber world. These cyber-attacks are successful because people fall prey to them very quickly, through spoofed emails. It’s not as easy as it sounds to protect from phishing since the attackers are nowadays using new and ingenious technologies.
Cybercrimes such as spear phishing, SMiShing, and phishing have been statistically proven to be increasing at a high pace. The rise in the sophistication and effectiveness of methods used by cybercriminals is leading to a very pressing need to improve on the cybersecurity and control mechanisms of organizations and adopting to anti-phishing solutions.
Ideal for users who work in a team, Dropbox is the place where all their team’s content comes together. It is the world’s smartest workplace, which helps team members cut through the clutter and bring to the surface, things which matter the most. Users can store their files in a safe place, and access them through a computer, phone, or tablet. They need to login to Dropbox, and all the changes they make will sync across all the accounts. Dropbox makes team management super simple. Team members can send an e-mail to Dropbox, and keep their projects moving forward.
Enterprises encounter various online threats while thriving in the digital age. Online identity theft happens to be one of the prime threats that all businesses need to address. Identity theft refers to any instance of an unauthorized entity using an entity’s confidential identification data to impersonate them for malicious purposes. Such information includes addresses, names, email addresses, login credentials like username and password, passport numbers, driving license numbers, social security numbers, or bank details.