According to a recent Axios report, over 2 million monthly active users use G Suite products. In the 2017 Google I/O Conference, the organization mentioned that Google Drive alone has over 800 million daily users, and this figure is only increasing. If someone were to exploit a vulnerability in this famous collaborative work and educational
The new year means a fresh start for adversaries and us, and they have begun working on new targets. Following are this week’s top phishing news headlines to help you stay ahead of scammers and plan your anti-phishing protection measures.
Digitization has witnessed a sudden boom in online data storage, where not only work but entertainment, education, and communication have become dependent on the internet. Numerous survey scams are gaining popularity once again by promoting various products or free samples to users in return for their information. Scammers pretend to be some famous brand to
Anti-phishing measures do not ensure 100% protection against ransomware and other social engineering attacks, but they do create additional protective shields and notification systems which gives the incident response teams enough time to detect and tackle the attack vector. Here are the major ransomware attack news headlines this week to help you protect your organization
QR (Quick Response) codes have become ubiquitous as smartphones have become more popular. Furthermore, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, most industries and sectors are getting digitized, with online payments becoming a significant part of this new ecosystem. However, malicious actors can use a counterfeit QR code, causing the link’s original destination to be diverted to
Ensuring phishing attack prevention is challenging when some form of cyberattack happens every minute. The global cybersecurity landscape is changing with more people becoming aware of cyber threats and doing their bit to ensure protection. But with every positive phishing protection measure that emerges, there is a similar (if not greater) growth in cyberattack vectors.
The Christmas holidays are one of the longest periods of the year when the majority of the employees are on leave. This is usually a peak time for cyberattacks wherein threat actors remain active from the onset of December. As we step into yet another holiday season, more and more ransomware attacks are getting reported.
According to a survey conducted by F5 Labs in 2020, phishing scams have increased by 220% since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. A recent example was a COVID-19 health survey conducted among the staff members of the UBC (University of British Columbia), which later turned out to be fake and was instead a ransomware
There is no end to cyberattacks as the world continues to shift towards an online environment. The best preventive measure against online threat actors is to keep yourself updated on how they plan their attacks and target their next victims. Here are this week’s top phishing, ransomware, and data breach headlines. BSI Warns Citizens
Phishing is a sort of attack in which you are tricked into supplying sensitive information in response to a fake message containing malicious links. Phishing is when a fraudster convinces you to do anything that provides them access to your devices, accounts, funds, or confidential information. Microsoft revealed that there had been a growth in
Threat actors just need one opportunity to infiltrate your device and accounts online and get access to all your PII (Personally Identifiable Information). And phishing is one of the primary ways they use to set their malicious plans in motion, such as for data breaches, identity thefts, etc. This is why it is crucial to
As malicious actors develop increasingly sophisticated attack vectors, enterprises and organizations need to draw a strong line of defense against such threats. While phishing happens to be one of the oldest tools to inflict cyberattacks, TrickBot phishing is a comparatively newer malware that first gained visibility as a simple banking Trojan. Over the years, TrickBot
Data is one of the most valuable information assets in the world today, and therefore data breaches are such a big deal. This week, the cyber news headlines highlight the significant instances of millions of people losing their data and funds to malicious cyber adversaries. Implementation of robust phishing protection measures is the need of
As the world transforms into a more digitally connected environment, the risks have also amplified manifold. New York-based domain and web hosting service provider GoDaddy discovered an enormous security breach on November 17 this year, which affected almost 1.2 million accounts. The incident occurred when the attacker accessed the GoDaddy network through a compromised password
This week’s news headlines highlight why phishing prevention should be a part of every organization’s cyber risk management strategy. Here are the major phishing and data breach headlines from this past week. Data Breach Hits Costco Costco customers are receiving breach notifications warning them of unauthorized payments. The security incident was brought to light
Phishing has long been one of the most common types of cybersecurity threats for enterprises. Even though most enterprises operating in the digital mode deploy anti-phishing tools, threat actors have developed a new invasive method of attack, called HTML smuggling. Regardless of the size and industry of your enterprise, it makes sense to draw a
Every week we see the adversaries successfully stealing information through various social engineering tactics. This cycle of malicious actors accessing one’s personal and organizational networks needs to be stopped. The first step towards that is keeping yourself up-to-date with how these threat actors operate. Here are the phishing news headlines of this week. Data
Google influences many of our buying decisions each day, having an estimated 85-90% of the search engine market share worldwide. Fraudsters find the online advertising world attractive because it involves massive sums of money. Besides, the transactions are impersonal with a complex and opaque supply chain mechanism that add to the anonymity factor. A mighty
Ransomware gangs continue to target organizations worldwide, leaking users’ personal information only, which could be used to launch further phishing attacks, identity thefts, and other cyber attacks. Here is this week’s phishing news to help you learn how threat actors operate and the importance of adopting anti-phishing measures. Data Breach Hits Electronic Warfare Associates
Credential stuffing is a phishing attack in which threat actors use the credentials obtained from a data breach to log in to another unrelated service. For example, an attacker may use a list of passwords and usernames that he got from a breach of a department store and use these login credentials to log in