Vipre

MAY 5, 2021

For instance, failing to educate users on the dangers of phishing amounts to business malpractice. Your answers should make it obvious in which areas of security you need to invest: Are you training users on the dangers of phishing? 66% of ransomware infections are due to spam and phishing emails.

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Ransomware Backups Phishing Education 122

Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) just released the 2022 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report that reveals the most prevalent malware tools leveraged by cyber criminals this year, with phishing and fraud dominating the list.

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Retail Cyber threats Social Engineering Phishing 78

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Data breaches 90

Data breaches Malware Mobile Spyware 90

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2021

Source: Brave website) Sharing an eBook with your Kindle could have let hackers hijack your account. Source: The Hacker News) Attackers behind a phishing campaign exposed the credentials they had stolen to the public Internet, across dozens of drop-zone servers.

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IoT Internet Internet Education 61

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Outside her organization, cybercriminals exploited these shortcomings with increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and relentless persistence. Google's password manager or Apple's iCloud) and from there propagate to any other device the user may have linked to the same cloud account. Start with our eBook.

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Authentication Passwords CISO Password Management 138

Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Human identities are being phished…. This explains the rise in phishing attacks targeting users. According to Help Net Security , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) detected 260,642 phishing attacks in July 2021. The issue is that users can’t always spot a phishing attempt. brooke.crothers.

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Risk Phishing Digital transformation Social Engineering 52

Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Multiple account or credential compromise is the norm This result is surprising, but it’s not entirely new. Get more insight into key survey takeaways by reading ESG’s ebook on the state of Passwordless in the Enterprise.

Authentication 61

Authentication Passwords Risk Technology 61

Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An impersonation attack recently made headlines with the 2020 Twitter/Bitcoin scam , in which 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to steal bitcoin. This is why a multi-layered approach that can block phishing sites (including HTTPS) in real time, is key for staying safe. Who is the Impersonator?

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Scams Phishing Firewall Social Engineering 108

Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Compromised credentials and phishing attacks, our previous two points of focus in the series, are two of the most common entry paths to ransomware deployment. When users get phished, bad guys start attempting to use the stolen credentials within 10 minutes. In the final instalment of this series, we cover the rise of ransomware 3.0

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Ransomware Healthcare Phishing Authentication 73

Webroot

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Schools, local governments and hospitals are some of the most commonly targeted types of institutions, accounting for some 2,400 breaches in 2020, according to the Ransomware Task Force’s (RTF) 2021 report. Educate end users – The next common method of compromise is phishing attacks, independent of company size.

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Ransomware Small Business Backups Threat Reports 106

Vipre

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Access to financial information including bank accounts. Email is the #1 attack vector for SMBs, and serves as a primary starting point for malware, phishing, and other types of attacks. . Do they know how to spot a phishing email or other types of hacking attempts? Wondering why a threat actor would even go after an SMB?

Cybersecurity 59

Cybersecurity Small Business Data breaches Phishing 59

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

Cybercriminals employed all manner of schemes to target businesses and individuals, including phishing, spoofing and tech support fraud, the FBI reported. Phishing attacks topped the list of all cybercrimes, totaling 241,342 incidents – more than double the 2019 total of 114,702 – and causing losses of more than U.S. $54 54 million.

Cybercrime 52

Cybercrime Internet Internet Small Business 52

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Outside her organization, cybercriminals exploited these shortcomings with increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and relentless persistence. Google's password manager or Apple's iCloud) and from there propagate to any other device the user may have linked to the same cloud account. Start with our eBook.

Authentication 64

Authentication Passwords CISO Password Management 64

Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2021

Ransomware code propagated through phishing and malware attacks that target weak workforce, supplier, and partner access credentials is perhaps the most common type of attack. The 2021 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report shows that unauthorized access accounts for 43% of all breaches. Lesson 4: Secure Non-Human Identities .

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Manufacturing IoT CISO Authentication 59