After hitting South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, the US, and the UK, the Roaming Mantis campaign recently moved to target iOS and Android users in France and likely compromised numerous devices. Here is a look at the Roaming Mantis malware and how such smishing campaigns affect individuals and organizations.
The threat from RDP attacks that spread ransomware has always been present. RDP is a popular MO for cybercriminals because it allows easy access to a device.
The last 5 years have seen a vast increase in RDP attacks, with cybercriminals taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and even the Ukrainian conflict to attack both vulnerable businesses and individuals, holding their systems and files to ransom.
The recently discovered Follina vulnerability in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool has been causing all kinds of harm by employing word documents to do their dirty work. The vulnerability was found in May but has been reportedly exploited for nearly a month and has been making headlines in the cybersecurity world and creating all kinds of doubts regarding the safety of one of the most widely used software, MS Word. Microsoft has responded against the zero-day vulnerability and shared the latest mitigation advice that you can use to block attacks before the official patch.
Email policies are necessary for businesses old and new, big and small. They protect you from legal liability and establish firm guidelines for employee conduct.
Let’s dive into why you need an email policy, what you should include in its contents, and how to implement best practices for privacy and data security.
The MRSC’s (Microsoft Security Response Center) Identity Project Research Grants started in 2020 to support external researchers and strengthen protocol and system security. One of the two grants provided to Avinash Sudhodanan has borne fruit, and Microsoft has revealed a new class of a cyberattack, Account Pre-Hijacking.
Account hijacking involves malicious actors gaining access to an innocent user’s account. However, suppose the malicious actor already has access to the victim’s email. In that case, they can create an online account using that address before the victim and put it into a pre-hijacked state, allowing them to regain access to accounts even if a victim recovers it.
In the past few years, cybersecurity threats have become more and more common. Attacks left and right are happening to businesses of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to tech startups that are just getting on their feet. These attacks can range from data breaches through software vulnerabilities to social engineering attacks in the form of phishing.
This ever-increasing danger of cyberattacks has got everyone mostly spooked when it comes to keeping their security infrastructure well-maintained. Ransomware has especially become increasingly common and has resulted in large losses amounting to around $16.8 million for businesses.
Remote work comes with a list of benefits, both for employees and employers. Ever dialled into a Zoom meeting from the beach? The looks on your colleagues’ faces make you briefly forget about the sand in your spacebar and the glare of the sun on your screen.
We all value our privacy and when that privacy gets compromised, it’s not an enjoyable experience. A lot of what you share data-wise with companies is handed over willingly but with the hope that it’s going to be looked after.
No matter if you operate in B2C or B2B, email outreach is a tall order. Even if you use an opt-in verified contact database and have a trustworthy sender domain, your messages may be cluttered by dozens of incoming emails in leads’ inboxes. Email marketers shouldn’t, hence, neglect sending a follow-up email. Not unless they care about the ROIs of their outreach efforts.
The short answer to that question is a definite yes.
In fact, according to cyber intelligence firm CYFIRMA, there has been a stunning 600% increase in threat indicators between February and early March alone with hackers from all over the globe cooking up new schemes.
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 the errors that allow such incidents to happen, these incidents continue to occur with alarming regularity.
Yet another exciting time in cyberspace, last week was spent by most of the enterprises trying to fix some of the most common vulnerabilities and various sources of zero-day attack present in much of the software of some of the top organizations around the world. Microsoft was finally able to send a patch for the win32k zero-day attack, and the ransomware that affected Pensacola was eventually detected and stopped; however, even with all this progress, there are still millions of cybercrimes taking place every day in the world.
Cybersecurity or Internet Security is of utmost importance in the digital world today. It is a body of technology, expertise, norms, and processes designed to safeguard devices, data, programs, and networks from being attacked or accessed without authorization. Cybersecurity is essential to promote as all the important officialdoms, be it the government, military, defense, or medical organizations, store massive amounts of unprecedented data on various networks, computers, and such other devices.
Yet another week passes by, and the number of attacks on innocent netizens only escalates. Hackers are undoubtedly on an endless spree of infecting devices with malware and disrupting the daily activities of people. While many users indirectly encourage attackers by easily giving them the demanded ransom, others choose to stay firm and not do what the hacker wants even if they have to struggle because of this decision. People may adopt the best phishing prevention measures, and yet the attackers will manage to find some tiny crevice to enter and breakdown their entire system. The internet is flooded with news of such incidents that have happened over the week. But here we bring you the most important headlines from the world of cybersecurity:
The cyber-world is full of stories of technological innovations with newer and unthinkable horizons of progress being reached every day. However, development is not just happening for the masses; there is a community of people who are working against these innovations for their personal benefit, often at the price of privacy, property, identity, and money of the innocent users. These are the cybercriminals who come up with new and unusual methods of defying anti-phishing tools. Here is a list of the major attacks from the past week to help keep your guards up.
The cyber arena is an integral part of the life of millennials because of which nothing ever seems to take place offline. However, anti-phishing protection becomes necessary when we deal with new websites, new people, and new technological advancements every day as the times are difficult, and cybersecurity is at stake with the existence of countless malicious actors. There are innumerable instances of cyber-attacks being launched by the attackers, which have made individuals, companies, and governments suffer financially, socially, politically, and emotionally. Here is an account of the most recent cybercrimes to help you better analyze the dark reality of the digital world.
Cybersecurity is an issue with growing concern among all netizens. There is barely any privacy on the internet today, and not taking the right security measures only adds on to make us all the more unsafe on the web. Hence, there are rising numbers of instances of cyber-attacks and it is because of this that ensuring phishing prevention has become mandatory for individual users as well as the organizations. Here are the top headlines from the cyber world to help to plan your security better.
There is no denial of the fact that the advancement of technology has reached greater heights in the world of the attackers. Now and then, the name of some new form of a cyber-attack can be heard or read. These attacks are so well planned and executed that as users of the internet, anything we do as an anti-phishing measure is barely ever enough to meet the standards of sophistication employed by the attacker. However, continually studying the recent trail of attacks helps gain at least some insight into the minds and functioning of the cyber adversaries, which enables us to exhibit some preparedness. That is why we have come up with a list of the significant cyber-attacks throughout the week to help you study the attackers better.
Recent years have witnessed a significant upsurge in the rate of cybercrimes. Not only has the frequency of attacks increased, but even the methods used for launching cyberattacks have also been evolving to include the most sophisticated and unique forms of phishing that phishing prevention almost becomes an unattainable goal for many. However, the least that can be done by us as spectators or apprehensive users of the internet is to stay updated about all the happenings in the cyber world so that we can at least have an inkling of the kind of things to expect while we are online. Here is the list of all the major events related to cybercrime throughout the past week to help you keep abreast of all changes.
The rate at which cybercrimes are propagating is beyond the imagination of an ordinary mind. All we can say is that the ill-motivated have begun to outnumber and outsmart the good actors in the cyberworld. This becomes evident in the endless stream of failed phishing prevention measures that lead to major cybercrimes such as identity theft, financial losses, and sextortion campaigns on a daily basis. Here are the most recent cyber attacks that have made it to the headlines in the past week.