With the constant drumbeat of news reports about security breaches, cyber security is hard to ignore. Organizations understand that they need comprehensive security solutions, yet significant gaps remain. Malicious actors have evolved their methods to leverage the vulnerabilities of the Domain Name System (DNS), and...
Phishing, spearphishing, CEO Fraud/Business Email Compromise (BEC) and ransomware represent a group of critical security threats that virtually every organization will encounter at some point - and most already have. The logical evolution of phishing are increasing rapidly and costing organizations hundreds of...
How could attackers trick you, an intelligent professional, into handing over company funds?
They impersonate someone you know and trust.
According to the FBI's latest BEC/EAC alert, businesses worldwide experienced a 2,370% increase in actual and attempted dollar losses from BEC/EAC scams between January 2015...
The attacker ecosystem is evolving rapidly and threat actors are making daring attempts to weaponize new attack types and new combinations of popular techniques. Large, global crises have dominated public discourse and news media and elevated the profile of software exploitation. These stories have, in turn, elevated...
Organizations today take strong measures to guard against data breaches. With 91% of breaches starting with phishing emails, we find ourselves in an arms race against phishing attackers.
So, are we winning the war or just holding ground?
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Can your financial institution automatically detect and prevent phishing attacks? Swiftly identifying and taking down these websites is time-consuming - and unfortunately, most users submit their credentials in the first few hours of the attack. As a result, to guard against phishing you need the ability to protect...
Phishing attacks have seen a meteoric rise in the last year as attackers continue to refine their tactics and share successful attack types. In particular, they've taken advantage of the malware-as-a-service offerings on the dark web in order to increase the efficiency and volume of attacks.
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Social engineering is not a new concept, but it is an enduring one that is steadily growing, with no end in sight.
One of the most common social engineering schemes is phishing, which is defined as "the use of social engineering and technical subterfuge to defraud an online account holder of their financial...
From ransomware to business email compromise, most of today's Internet scourges - in spite of vast differences in their appearances - are related to each other and depend on a small number of reused adversarial techniques. Decomposing the threats into these atomic building blocks is helpful to understand the nature of...
A new phishing site just popped up targeting your online banking customers. Many of your end users who land on the page won't realize they're about to disclose their login or payment card information to fraudsters.
How can you help your customers before they disclose their credentials?
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The threat landscape certainly has changed in recent years. But can you say the same about the traditional intrusion prevention system."The biggest problem with IPSs today is that organizations are trying to fight today's threats with yesterday's solutions," says Bertone, who serves as CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity....
Markus Jakobsson, Chief Scientist at Agari, has released a new book focused on socially-engineered schemes. What are the key takeaways, and how can security leaders improve their abilities to fight back against the schemers?
Business Email Compromise phishing attacks, including the recent surge of IRS W-2 scams, have never been more prevalent. Why? Because they work.
These attacks, which often impersonate company executives, are actively targeting organizations large and small. When successful, BEC attacks lead to large losses due to...
To paraphrase an old saying, a wall is only as
strong as its weakest point. When it comes
to system and data security, people are
often that point.
People are the last line of defense to prevent
unblocked attacks from clearing a path to
your systems and data. To serve that role
effectively, employees must be...
In recent years, sending a seemingly innocent email to trick the recipient into allowing unauthorized access to corporate and organizational networks has cost businesses millions of dollars. End users have become sensitive to highly publicized cyber-attacks, knowing that their personal data is at stake.
As...
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