Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. COVID-19 definitely affected phishing in very visible ways. phishing URLs targeting Netflix jumped 646%.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations. Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

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SC Magazine

MAY 14, 2021

Microsoft Security Intelligence earlier this week tweeted out that it has been tracking a campaign of remote access trojans (RATs) targeting the aerospace and travel industries with spear-phishing emails that distribute an actively developed loader, which then delivers RevengeRAT or AysncRAT. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware. After clicking the link and entering the info, your security is compromised. Milbourne is also a big advocate of security awareness training.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. A surprising 91.5

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. Security intelligence comes with a high pay off. Only by ensuring you’ve got the right combinations of people, processes and technology can you do this.

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