Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 7 of 2020
The struggle to prevent phishing attacks is constant, but here are the top headlines from cybersecurity that shall brief you about the significant events from the past week:
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 6 of 2020
With 1.5 million new phishing sites coming up every day, phishing prevention is not an objective that is going to be a success anytime soon. Besides, the war against cybercriminals is not just about phishing. The adversaries launch various destructive cyber attacks each day, and there is no escape from these. You might be the
Hackers Use Recent Tragedies to Target Phishing Victims
Hackers have no soul. They will use any means available to target victims with phishing emails, including seizing on the latest widely-known tragedies. And you have to be aware of it. On January 26th, Kobe Bryant, an internationally-recognized sports superstar died in a helicopter crash outside Los Angeles. It didn’t take long for the heartless
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 5 of 2020
More than half of the emails you receive in a day are spam emails. The majority of the data breaches are channeled through phishing attacks. The frequency of cybercrimes is increasing, and they have become all the more sophisticated. Ensuring cyber protection has never been more challenging than in the present, and the worst part
One More Reason Why Office 365 is so Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
Office 365 comes with email security native to the application, but it must not be very good. How else can you explain the effort hackers put into exploiting Office 365 users AND the success they’ve had doing it? According to CPO Magazine, “A new phishing attack is being used to steal user credentials from Microsoft
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 4 of 2020
The war between attackers and phishing prevention services is a perennial one. None of the parties ever seem to be willing to settle for less, and hence the cyber-world is full of dynamism and vibrancy. Another week has passed, and with that, we have a hundred updates added to the list of activities in the
The News Gets Worse for Victims of Ransomware
Hackers using ransomware to extort money from victims used to have a fairly straightforward playbook: gain access to the victims data, encrypt it and promise to decrypt it for the ransom. That by itself caused all kinds of havoc. From Laporte, Indiana to Baltimore, Maryland, companies and municipalities found themselves scrambling to figure out how
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 3 of 2020
It seldom happens that the dynamic world around us witnesses a day without any activities. Particularly, in the world of cybersecurity, it is almost impossible for nothing significant to happen in a day. But how to keep abreast of all these anti-phishing solutions we must adopt against adversaries on a daily basis? As mind-boggling as
If You’re Retired, be Wary of This Scam
If you’re a retired U.S. citizen, there’s a pretty good chance you collect monthly Social Security benefits. And if you do, there’s something you should know. Hackers are coming after your money. From an article on the AARP website, “Crooks are turning to email as a way to steal Social Security benefits, often including official-looking
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 2 of 2020
The cyber-world is the epitome of vibrancy and change. Some new technological advancement or out of the box hacking scheme always makes it to the headlines. Just when we think that innovations are at the pinnacle of uniqueness, there appears another critically thought and unique technological development. Keeping abreast of these many updates isn’t humanly
The Newest Phishing Tactic Designed to Get You to Click
Phishing is a pretty straightforward scam. Get victims to click on a link they shouldn’t. In that regard, hackers never stop evolving and coming up with clever new ways to trick victims into clicking. And it seems they’ve done it again. The trick of course is to make a malicious URL look legitimate. In that
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 1 of 2020
In a shocking development, many people last week suffered from massive ransomware attacks all over the world. Several precautions are taken by users these days as awareness about cybercrime grows, but there are always new ways discovered by attackers to steal more information. Although millions of dollars are being spent by government agencies to rectify
Bad News for Phishing Attacks: AI is Coming
If you’re responsible for email security at your company, then you’re acutely aware of the role that social engineering plays in effective phishing attacks. Social engineering is not a technology hack, it’s psychology hack. It doesn’t exploit technological weakness, it exploits human weakness. You can be sure the next phishing attack launched upon your organization
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 52
Yet another exciting time in cyberspace, last week was spent by most of the enterprises trying to fix some of the most common vulnerabilities and various sources of zero-day attack present in much of the software of some of the top organizations around the world. Microsoft was finally able to send a patch for the
May the Force Be With You—That Force is a Phishing Attack
The newest Star Wars movie due out this week, The Rise of Skywalker, could just as easily be titled The Rise of Hackers, because they’re using the release of the over-hyped movie to target fans with a phishing attack. As reported in SC Magazine, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just being released into
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 51
Cybersecurity or Internet Security is of utmost importance in the digital world today. It is a body of technology, expertise, norms, and processes designed to safeguard devices, data, programs, and networks from being attacked or accessed without authorization. Cybersecurity is essential to promote as all the important officialdoms, be it the government, military, defense, or
The Latest Popular Service to Serve You up Phishing Emails: Spotify
If it’s a popular consumer service, you can bet that eventually, hackers will use it in phishing attacks. First it was Netflix, then it was Instagram and then Google and now Spotify. Almost all communication with the services you use today is via email. Hackers know it, and that’s why phishing attacks aren’t going away
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 50
Yet another week passes by, and the number of attacks on innocent netizens only escalates. Hackers are undoubtedly on an endless spree of infecting devices with malware and disrupting the daily activities of people. While many users indirectly encourage attackers by easily giving them the demanded ransom, others choose to stay firm and not do
How Hotels Leave You Vulnerable to Phishing Attacks
If you invest in phishing protection software, which you should, you probably think you’re safe from phishing attacks. It would be nice if that were true, but it’s not. Unfortunately, we live in a tightly-coupled financial ecosystem where vulnerability to one of us is a vulnerability to all. I’ll bet that when you stay at
Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 49
The cyber-world is full of stories of technological innovations with newer and unthinkable horizons of progress being reached every day. However, development is not just happening for the masses; there is a community of people who are working against these innovations for their personal benefit, often at the price of privacy, property, identity, and money