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Nearly Every Organization Has Had an Insider-Caused Data Breach in the Last Year

Whether it’s from an accidental leak of data or falling victim to a phishing attack, new data from email security vendor Egress puts the insider’s role in breaches into critical ...

Facebook Disrupts Iranian Social Engineering Operation

Facebook has taken down an operation by Iranian hackers targeting military, defense, and aerospace entities, particularly focused on the US.

[On-Demand Webinar] 2021 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking Report

As a security leader, you have a lot on your plate. Even as you increase your budget for sophisticated security software, your exposure to cybercrime keeps going up. IT security seems to ...

84% of Organizations Experienced Ransomware and Phishing-Related Security Events in the Last 12 Months

New research from Trend Micro and Osterman Research highlights where organizations are strongest and weakest at stopping phishing attacks resulting in ransomware.

CISA Publishes Darkside Malware Analysis Report and Updated Best Practice Guidance Against Ransomware

New details provide valuable insight into exactly how Darkside works to compromise and encrypt systems, with valuable guidance to avoid becoming a victim of ransomware.

Cryptocurrencies and Email Extortion Trends

Researchers at GreatHorn have found that 98.7% of extortion emails ask for payment in Bitcoin. Most of these emails aren’t targeted, but enough people will likely fall for them that the ...

Phishing Campaign Uses Novel Technique to Deliver Malware

Researchers at McAfee warn that a phishing campaign is delivering malware via Word documents that don’t contain any malicious code. When a user opens the document and enables content, the ...

New York Department of Financial Services Issues New Guidance to Financial Services Orgs to Counter Ransomware

NYDFS offers up sound best practices in addition to their recently released Cyber Insurance Risk Framework based on recent attack investigations, finding repeated use of “the same handful ...

Year-Long Phishing Campaign Targets Energy, Oil & Gas Companies Using Spoofed B2B Correspondence

Uncovered by the research team at cloud protection vendor Intezer, this new phishing campaign seeks to steal information and position each victim as the foothold to spear phish additional ...

Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Energy Companies

Researchers at Intezer have spotted a phishing campaign that’s targeting energy companies in South Korea, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Germany. Most of the targets are ...