Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 1 of 2022

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 1 of 2022

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

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QR Code Phishing Attacks: Save Your Organization From The New Wave of Phishing Scams

QR (Quick Response) codes have become widespread with the rise of smartphone usage. The COVID-19 epidemic, has accelerated digitization across industries, with online payments becoming a key component of this shift. However, malicious actors can exploit fake QR codes to redirect users from legitimate destinations to phishing websites. These “Quishing” attacks are increasingly common, with detection rates growing

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 52 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 52 of 2021

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.

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 51-2 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 51-2 of 2021

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.

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Beware of Omicron Phishing Scams

Beware of Omicron Phishing Scams

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

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 51 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 51 of 2021

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

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Learn About the Latest Office 365 Phishing Attack Scheme

Learn About the Latest Office 365 Phishing Attack Scheme

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

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 50 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 50 of 2021

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

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Be Aware of The TrickBot (Phishing) Technique That Evades High-resolution Screen Device Detection

Be Aware of The TrickBot (Phishing) Technique That Evades High-resolution Screen Device Detection

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

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 49 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 49 of 2021

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

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