Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are continuing to face evolving, unique challenges in how they defend against phishing attacks, including workforces that rely on a tangle of different devices, disparate work landscapes and cybercriminals that are "as adept…
It’s easy to forget, when a hybrid war like the one currently raging in Ukraine is occupying so much attention, that ordinary criminal lowlifes continue to seek victims, and the war only gives them another pretext to dangle in front…
With an ongoing land war in Ukraine, everyone needs to be alert for the Kremlin's parallel disinformation campaigns. Many people simply are not aware of the massive amount of false data that is being spread by an extensive, Russia-controlled network…
The war in Ukraine increases the risk of wiper malware to spill over. I'm sure you remember NotPetya, which caused billions of dollars of downtime damage. The WSJ reports that Symantec observed wiper malware was put in motion just hours…
Phishing emerged as the number one threat vector in 2021, but cases of vulnerability exploitation surged 33% year-on-year thanks to the impact of Log4Shell, according to IBM. The X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2022 was compiled from billions of datapoints, including…
Security experts are warning of large-scale business email compromise, or “BEC-as-a-service,” campaigns after blocking thousands of attacks in the fourth quarter of 2021. Kaspersky claimed to have detected 8000 BEC attacks globally in the period, with the vast majority (5037)…
