Hackers have no soul. They will use any means available to target victims with phishing emails, including seizing on the latest widely-known tragedies. And you have to be aware of it. On January 26th, Kobe Bryant, an internationally-recognized sports superstar died in a helicopter crash outside Los Angeles. It didn’t take long for the heartless
More than half of the emails you receive in a day are spam emails. The majority of the data breaches are channeled through phishing attacks. The frequency of cybercrimes is increasing, and they have become all the more sophisticated. Ensuring cyber protection has never been more challenging than in the present, and the worst part
Office 365 comes with email security native to the application, but it must not be very good. How else can you explain the effort hackers put into exploiting Office 365 users AND the success they’ve had doing it? According to CPO Magazine, “A new phishing attack is being used to steal user credentials from Microsoft
The war between attackers and phishing prevention services is a perennial one. None of the parties ever seem to be willing to settle for less, and hence the cyber-world is full of dynamism and vibrancy. Another week has passed, and with that, we have a hundred updates added to the list of activities in the
Hackers using ransomware to extort money from victims used to have a fairly straightforward playbook: gain access to the victims data, encrypt it and promise to decrypt it for the ransom. That by itself caused all kinds of havoc. From Laporte, Indiana to Baltimore, Maryland, companies and municipalities found themselves scrambling to figure out how
It seldom happens that the dynamic world around us witnesses a day without any activities. Particularly, in the world of cybersecurity, it is almost impossible for nothing significant to happen in a day. But how to keep abreast of all these anti-phishing solutions we must adopt against adversaries on a daily basis? As mind-boggling as
If you’re a retired U.S. citizen, there’s a pretty good chance you collect monthly Social Security benefits. And if you do, there’s something you should know. Hackers are coming after your money. From an article on the AARP website, “Crooks are turning to email as a way to steal Social Security benefits, often including official-looking
The cyber-world is the epitome of vibrancy and change. Some new technological advancement or out of the box hacking scheme always makes it to the headlines. Just when we think that innovations are at the pinnacle of uniqueness, there appears another critically thought and unique technological development. Keeping abreast of these many updates isn’t humanly
Phishing is a pretty straightforward scam. Get victims to click on a link they shouldn’t. In that regard, hackers never stop evolving and coming up with clever new ways to trick victims into clicking. And it seems they’ve done it again. The trick of course is to make a malicious URL look legitimate. In that
In a shocking development, many people last week suffered from massive ransomware attacks all over the world. Several precautions are taken by users these days as awareness about cybercrime grows, but there are always new ways discovered by attackers to steal more information. Although millions of dollars are being spent by government agencies to rectify