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Financial services businesses are already in the sights of cybercriminals, and understanding how cyber attacks impact this sector specifically can help establish the need for improved ...
So, today CISA released another ransomware notice. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security that is ...
Time is the one resource you never get back. Cutting the amount of time between the moment your user reports a suspicious email and when your InfoSec team responds can mean the difference ...
Researchers at CloudSEK have published a report looking at fraudulent customer service phone numbers in India. The researchers found around 20,000 of these phone numbers targeting users ...
This morning, Bloomberg News pointed at a brand new article at BusinessWeek, one of their media properties. This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when ...
With the average cost of the most expensive successful email attack at over $1 million, it’s necessary to begin to zero in on where the material sources of risk exist to keep these ...
Since phishing attacks need legitimacy to increase their deliverability, this latest twist shows how phishing scammers and hackers are working together to ensure phishing attacks continue.
An international cybercriminal operation responsible for millions of dollars in business email compromise (BEC) scams has finally been dismantled.
BlackBerry has published a report on a threat actor, Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, which has been operating against targets in Ecuador and Colombia since at least 2019. Its most ...
CyberheistNews Vol 13 #09 | February 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] Should You Click on Unsubscribe? By Roger A. Grimes. Some common questions we get are "Should I click on an unwanted email's ...
Most computer security practitioners have understood for many years the importance of having an aggressive security awareness training program. As social engineering is involved in 70% to ...
Researchers at Checkmarx warn that attackers uploaded more than 15,000 packages to NPM, the open-source repository for JavaScript packages, to distribute phishing links. The packages ...
With nearly 280 million phishing emails detected by just one vendor, and the increase in the number of unique emails, organizations have a lot to be worried about in 2023.
Email scammers can’t pass up a tried and true theme that is almost guaranteed to produce results. And with W-2 forms being sent out, it marks the start of this year’s expected campaigns.
New cyber attack data from 2022 is providing insight into what to expect in 2023, including ransomware campaigns.
New data shows users aren’t scrutinizing emails used in business email compromise (BEC) attacks, allowing critical changes in banking details that would impact the victim's organization ...
We received great feedback from many of you after sharing data about completion percentages last month so much that we thought, “What other things can we share from our vast amount of ...
Coinbase describes a targeted social engineering attack that led to the theft of some employee data. The attacker first sent smishing messages to several Coinbase employees, urging them ...
Some common questions we get are “Should I click on an unwanted email’s ’Unsubscribe’ link? Will that lead to more or less unwanted email?”
When it comes to cybersecurity, ransomware is the rockstar of threats. But taking a peek behind the curtain, business email compromise (BEC) causes huge financial losses.
