Midnight Blizzard Escalates Spear-Phishing Attacks On Over 100 Organizations

Russian hackers, known as Midnight Blizzard, launch targeted spear-phishing on U.S. officials, exploiting RDP files to gain access to data. Continue reading Midnight Blizzard Escalates Spear-Phishing Attacks On Over 100 Organizations

FBI Logs Rapid Increase in Email Scams, Investment Fraud

The FBI reported complaints concerning online scams and investment fraud have now reached a record-breaking level. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received its six millionth complaint on May 15, 2021. It took nearly seven years for the… Continue reading FBI Logs Rapid Increase in Email Scams, Investment Fraud

Breaking the Phishing Kill Chain

Sophisticated, nation-state attacks on prominent federal agencies tend to capture the majority of cybersecurity headlines. But security pros know the greater risk to their organizations comes from a more mundane, but more prevalent threat: email phish… Continue reading Breaking the Phishing Kill Chain

Threat Alert: Zoom Impersonated for Phishing Attacks

Phishing attacks rose 220 per cent during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic compared to the yearly average -Gulf BusinessContinue reading
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Why Minimizing Human Error is the Only Viable Defense Against Spear Phishing

Phishing attacks have become one of the business world’s top cybersecurity concerns. These social engineering attacks have been rising over the years, with the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group coalition identifying over 266,000 a… Continue reading Why Minimizing Human Error is the Only Viable Defense Against Spear Phishing

Scam Alert: You’ve Been Selected for ‘Like of the Year 2020’ Cash Prizes

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a large-scale ongoing fraud scheme that lures unsuspecting Russian Internet users with promises of financial rewards to steal their payment card information.

According to researchers at Group-IB, the multi-sta… Continue reading Scam Alert: You’ve Been Selected for ‘Like of the Year 2020’ Cash Prizes

ThreatList: Ransomware Costs Double in Q4, Sodinokibi Dominates

Ransomware actors are turning their sights on larger enterprises, making both average cost and downtime inflicted from attacks skyrocket. Continue reading ThreatList: Ransomware Costs Double in Q4, Sodinokibi Dominates

BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems

Imagine receiving an email from US VP Mike Pence’s official email account asking for help because he has been stranded in the Philippines.

Actually, you don’t have to. This actually happened.

Pence’s email was hacked when he was still the governor of… Continue reading BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems