Phishing Awareness

What is a Credential Stuffing Attack and Why Is It Paramount to Protect Your Organization from Such Phishing Attacks

by Brad | Nov 12, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

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 to the website of a national bank. The malicious actors work on the notion that a fraction of department store customers also have a bank account and use the same login credentials for both services.

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Phishing Simulations are The Crucial Need of the Hour for Phishing Prevention and Keeping Adequate Awareness Levels

by Brad | Oct 22, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

The increasing trend of cyber-attacks and the lack of adequate cyber readiness dictate that organizations should improve their security posture by alerting their users about various types of phishing attacks, the methods malicious actors use, and the consequences of a successful attack. Solutions to improve phishing awareness start by educating users about what communications and media are used in a phishing attack, what to look for in a social engineering attempt, and how to spot a scam from a distance. Phishing simulation campaigns go a step further by helping employees become more alert to phishing attempts by going through mock-phishing attempts.

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

by Brad | Oct 14, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

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.

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How Machine Learning Helps in Fighting Phishing Attacks

by Brad | Oct 6, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

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 it helpful in identifying phishing emails, spam, and malware.

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Microsoft 365’s New Phishing Simulation to Check Your Organization’s Email Security Posture

by Brad | Sep 8, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

With threats such as ransomware, phishing emails, and malware constantly lurking in the dark, cybersecurity experts are always at war against those waiting to exploit uneducated victims. Since the first phishing attack in the mid-1990s, it has evolved into a highly sophisticated and most frequent attack vector leading to fraud activity. Enterprises need to fundamentally change their approach to cybersecurity and align their budgets with the newly defined reality. As per a report, cybersecurity expenditure will touch approximately $6 trillion by 2021 globally.

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The Relevance of Phishing Protection for Ecommerce Businesses

by Brad | Aug 24, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Today’s cyber adversaries don’t merely rely on computer viruses and worms to target an individual digitally but make use of sophisticated social engineering (phishing) techniques to rob the end-users of their PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other confidential information. And businesses are no different, especially online businesses such as e-commerce; they are more lucrative targets for them. Their modus operandi includes masquerading themselves as authorized entities, sending out fraudulent emails, text messages, or even making phone calls to lure customers and clients and mislead them into divulging sensitive information. Here’s how these threat actors target e-commerce businesses.

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How To Protect Your Electronic Records Against Phishing

by Brad | Jul 21, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

With the fast pace of digital transformation today, businesses don’t have much choice other than doing all their transaction processing online, including the creation, storage, and retrieval of documents and records. According to a study conducted by Berkeley’s School of Information Management, University of California, organizations create more than 93 percent of their corporate data electronically. In such a scenario, the need for protecting your electronic records against social engineering attacks like phishing, vishing, spear phishing, SMiShing, etc. is of the utmost importance for any organization. This is the reason all the organizations today are now trying hard to implement a Cybersecurity framework that also encompasses anti-phishing techniques and deploy phishing protection control measures to safeguard their information assets.  

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What Is Domain Phishing, And Tips To Keep Your Business’s Domain Secure From Spoofing

by Brad | Jun 18, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

A study by Forbes concluded that there could be up to 3.1 billion domain spoofing emails being sent daily. The most common understanding of spoofing is associated with email spoofing. However, domain spoofing is a more significant threat to organizations. Furthermore, many organizations are unaware of how it can hurt business and how anti-phishing solutions and anti-ransomware solutions can protect them from spoofing.

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How To Strengthen Employee Security Awareness To Combat Phishing Attacks?

by Brad | May 22, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

In the highly digitized world, phishing attacks continue to jeopardize global organizations, targeting their employees. Considering humans to be an easily accessible line of defense when it comes to cybersecurity, awareness among staff is the need of the hour. When one finds one of the machines or systems vulnerable, one proactively fixes the issue. The same applies to employees who are humans. Besides deploying innovative anti-phishing solutions, one needs to deploy a good cybersecurity awareness program to prepare employees to mitigate attacks. 

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Spear Phishing- The Spooky Way to Compromise Sensitive Information

by Brad | Apr 29, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

It is a well-known fact that most of us in this digital era leaves behind our track or digital footprint online. While we don’t often get into troubles for doing so, our digital trails may be all that is needed by savvy scammers to get the better of us. There’s a scam operation called spear phishing that relies on information that is available online about a person or an organization to take advantage of them and to obtain illegal gains from them.

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Understanding Phishing & Types Of Phishing

by Brad | Apr 27, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Phishing is a kind of cyber-attack that is increasingly growing in popularity among hackers due to its simplicity of use and high potential rewards should the attacks prove to be successful. Phishing is usually done via email, popup ads, or even calls and involves deceptively fooling users into taking some action that ends up compromising them.

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A Brief Email Security & Phishing Safety Guide – Useful for IT and Email Administrators

by Brad | Apr 1, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Though phishing has its origins in the mid-1990s, it has gained tremendous relevance today. The entire business world relies on email as its prime communication channel. As email traffic has increased over the years, so have phishing attempts. Hence, it becomes essential for IT and Email admins to be constantly on their toes and keep employing innovative strategies to keep phishing at bay. The following Email Security and Phishing Safety Guide endeavors to touch upon these aspects.

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Here’s What Organizations Must Do To Avoid Phishing Scams While Their Employees Continue To Work From Home

by Brad | Mar 5, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

The effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic have drastically altered the way the world functions. Social distancing and lockdowns had to be exercised to curb the spread of Coronavirus. 91% of the world’s population were restricted from movement due to the lockdown as organizations shut down workplaces. However, they continued their operations to stay in business and out of bankruptcy. (more…)

Get an Insight on Various Types of Anti-Phishing Services

by Brad | Feb 23, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Cybercriminals invade into your enterprise’s information systems and figure out new ways and new vulnerabilities to execute more sophisticated phishing attacks. Human, time and again have proved to be the weakest link in the security chain before organizations take some preventive measures to stop phishing.

‘Anti Phishing Services’ are used to prevent phishing attacks against the individuals, systems or organizations.

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Lessons From The Past: 5 Substantial Phishing Attacks/Data Breaches Of The 21st Century

by Brad | Jan 20, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Cybercriminals use malicious social engineering techniques to extract information from unsuspecting users, to launch phishing breaches. Website email scams and phishing email scams are the two most common methods used by attackers. A 2020 phishing attack survey by Greathorn reveals that IT leaders were remediating 1,185 phishing attacks each month, that’s an average of 40 each day! To help business leaders get a peek into the havoc these phishing attacks can cause, we have compiled a list of the five deadliest phishing attacks of the 21st century.

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Phishing Scams Smaller Businesses Must Look Out for During the Holiday Season

by Brad | Dec 10, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

A Microsoft report points out that there has been a 35% rise in phishing attacks. And that was not even the holiday season. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have shown around a 28% rise in online sales year after year. As promotions fill people’s inboxes,  phishing agents also find it an opportunity. It gives IT security specialists a hard time. They would begin to lure the individual with enticing emails and spoofed offers. It causes the unsuspecting user to click on spurious links and share their financial credentials.

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How Organizations Are Leveraging AI & Machine Learning To Prevent Phishing Attacks

by Brad | Nov 25, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Hackers use social engineering in text messages and emails to launch phishing attacks on unsuspecting users and persuade them to share private information such as their login credentials or bank account details. Phishing schemes are becoming more advanced, and targeted attacks like spear-phishing are posing a threat to many organizations. While they deploy spam filters to counter malicious emails, the sophisticated ones quickly pass through these filters.

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A Hand-Guide To Know About Crypto Scams, Their Types And How To Avoid Them

by Brad | Nov 20, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Ecash, the brainchild of Chaum and one of the first forms of cryptocurrency, was launched as an alternative to paper money in 1983. Such was the popularity of this “non-corporeal” currency that Digicash, the firm which was regulating this new monetary asset, was able to raise over $10 million in a decade. It was so because the general public liked the idea of getting rid of traditional money. In the year 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin, which was considered the first decentralized digital currency. Then, there was no stopping the rising popularity of cryptocurrency.

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The Holidays are Coming Which Means Holiday Phishing Emails are Coming too

by Brad | Nov 7, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

It’s that time of the year. Time for a special brand of phishing emails: holiday-themed emails.

Who doesn’t like receiving a discount code from their favourite retailer in an email promotion around the holidays? Or, a holiday e-card from a co-worker? Or, a shipping notification from UPS saying that a package is on the way? Everyone loves getting these types of emails around the holidays and hackers know it. Which is why they use these types of emails to phish you. And by all accounts, they’re planning on doing it even more this holiday season. So, you better be ready.

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Understanding Business Identity Theft & What Makes Businesses Vulnerable To These Identity Thefts

by Brad | Nov 3, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Those days are long gone when thieves only targeted stealing physical assets such as physical money or expensive items. Today is the time of “cyber thieves” who know stealing confidential information of business entities, and impersonating them has far higher benefits.

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