Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 42 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 42 of 2021

Here are the latest updates on the major hacks and attacks this week that will keep you abreast of the recent threat factors and help plan your phishing prevention strategies.   Conti Ransomware Gang Attacks Sandhills Global US-based information processing firm Sandhills Global recently underwent a ransomware attack that disrupted its business operations and brought

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Threat Actors Have Started Using Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) – Here Is Everything You Need To Know!

Threat Actors Have Started Using Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) – Here Is Everything You Need To Know!

Less than a month ago, Microsoft exposed a well-organized operation that provides a one-of-a-kind, DIY phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) product to malicious actors. This product includes phishing kits, hosting services, and templates to create and develop customized phishing campaigns. This ‘BulletProofLink’ (also referred to as BulletProftLink) operation was first discovered in 2020, yet it continues today.

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 41 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 41 of 2021

Ransomware attacks have increased ominously over the last couple of years, and you would be surprised to know how innovative cyber adversaries have become in their modus operandi. Ensuring phishing protection becomes problematic when the attackers don’t stick to one strategy or name, and that is where the role of keeping abreast of the latest

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How Machine Learning Helps in Fighting Phishing Attacks

How Machine Learning Helps in Fighting Phishing Attacks

Machine learning is one of the critical mechanisms working in tandem with Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is based on algorithms focused on understanding and recognizing patterns from enormous piles of data to create a system that can predict unusual behavior and anomalies. It evolves with time while learning patterns of normal behavior. These characteristics make

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 40 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 40 of 2021

Threat actors continue to launch phishing campaigns and ransomware attacks to lure netizens into giving away PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other critical information. The best prevention against such threats is keeping oneself abreast of the latest methods that they adopt to launch cyber attacks. To that end,  here are the major phishing and data

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 39 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 39 of 2021

Phishing is a recurrent problem in the cyber world, and if you are connected to the internet, then chances are you have witnessed or undergone some form of a phishing attack; whether you fell for it or thwarted it is another story. Here are the phishing headlines in the spotlight this week to help you

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The Revival Of IDN (Phishing) Attacks With Microsoft Outlook

The Revival Of IDN (Phishing) Attacks With Microsoft Outlook

The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) consists of a combined Unicode character set with similar Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, making the domain look identical to the Daily ASCII domain. Unicode domain names could be problematic from a security point of view, as many Unicode characters are hard to distinguish from regular ASCII characters. Phishing attacks with

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Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 38 of 2021

Cybersecurity Updates For The Week 38 of 2021

Threat actors continue with their nefarious activities to target organizations around the world. The following news headlines highlight the major phishing attacks in the past week and the mitigation measures adopted by concerned authorities.   AVOS Locker Ransomware Attacks Pacific City Bank The Pacific City Bank is a leading American bank providing commercial banking services

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The Rise in Online Payments Has Given Rise to Phishing Attacks

The Rise in Online Payments Has Given Rise to Phishing Attacks

Phishing is one of the oldest forms of social engineering, which malicious actors use to extract critical information from users. And online payments have their share of phishing threats to handle. While many businesses move to the virtual world to reach more customers and make transactions smoother, malicious actors find a massive opportunity in it

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