With advancements in technology, crimes like cyber theft, phishing, and scamming have increased over the years. American citizens lost over US$50 million due to phishing attacks in 2020, and for businesses, the figure is in billions. Spear-phishing is one of the most perilous cyber-attacks methods that many organizations face in today’s world. Although phishing awareness
Ransomware and phishing continue to remain some of the major causes of concern for global organizations. This week’s phishing headlines highlight the most significant data breaches and other cyber attacks that you need to read about to keep yourself updated so you can learn to thwart such attacks. Ransomware Hits ForHousing and Liberty The
Today’s cyber adversaries don’t merely rely on computer viruses and worms to target an individual digitally but make use of sophisticated social engineering (phishing) techniques to rob the end-users of their PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other confidential information. And businesses are no different, especially online businesses such as e-commerce; they are more lucrative targets
There can never be an assurance of complete phishing attack prevention attached to any cybersecurity solution. Cyber adversaries are getting sophisticated and innovative by the day, and a mere click on a link received in a spam email is enough to jeopardize your information assets today. However, it does not mean that organizations must not
As per a 2019 Verizon Report, 94% of malware in all cybercrimes gets delivered via email. Thus, using emails to spread malware is a common cyber-attack strategy. Phishing emails aim to steal sensitive user information under the pretense of seeking identity verification, subscription confirmation, payment, etc. Phishing emails are used to launch various attacks, but
While an enterprise may agree to pay the demanded ransom, there remains the risk of attackers putting up the organization’s sensitive data for sale on the dark web. Therefore, it is necessary to stop ransomware and phishing attacks at their root. The easiest way to do that is by keeping abreast of the latest phishing
According to a recent report, 85% of all organizations have been targets of phishing attacks. Like other phishing attacks, adversaries also use mobile phishing to trick users into sharing personal or critical organizational information. It is gradually becoming the most preferred mode of phishing by threat actors as there has been a significant increase in
Data breaches are a typical news headline in most cybersecurity updates today. There is no guarantee that ransomware attackers won’t steal data from a system before giving away the decryption key. As such, organizations must adopt phishing attack prevention measures from the beginning so that the adversaries are left with any vulnerabilities or loopholes to
Social engineering is the technique of employing psychological methods and communication skills, generally by competitors and adversaries, to gather information about their competition or potential targets. However, with the advent of technology, sophistication has increased too. Modern-day phishing exercises are elaborate and require a concerted effort by security teams to create a firewall against them.
Phishing prevention is one of the most significant challenges businesses face today; the worrying part for business owners is that threat actors do not just target large conglomerates anymore. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are as lucrative a target for them as the larger organizations, given SMEs have limited budgets, and they can allocate only