Tag: social engineering attacks
Email Threats Continue to be Gateway of Major Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks via unsolicited emails remain an effective attack vector as threat actors continue to evolve their phishing techniques. Adversaries are quick to adopt new...
Alert! Fraudulent Call Centers Tricking Users to Download BazaLoader Malware
Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team uncovered an ongoing malware campaign tricking victims into downloading malware on the targeted systems. The campaign, dubbed as...
Verizon 2021 DBIR: Cyberattacks Continue to Rise During Pandemic
From phishing attacks, identity theft to brand impersonation attacks, cybercriminals leveraged all kinds of attack vectors during the pandemic. This resulted in a huge...
“Every bit of compromised PII can be used for social engineering...
Marcus Fowler is Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace. Before joining Darktrace in 2019, he spent 15 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
How to Prevent Account Takeover Attacks
In tandem with improvements in digital financial services and e-commerce, threat actors have gotten more creative with account takeover attacks and scams. You could...
North Korean Cybercriminals Target Security Researchers: Google
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has uncovered an ongoing cyber campaign targeting security experts working on vulnerability research and development at various organizations. In...
Deepfakes: A Growing Cybersecurity Concern
In tandem with developments in cybersecurity technology, cybercriminals have started getting more innovative with their attacking techniques. Threat actors are leveraging advanced technologies like...
Hackers Evade Secure Email Gateways via Advanced Phishing Attacks
Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging social engineering scams via sophisticated phishing techniques. According to a research from Ironscales, nearly 50% of all advanced phishing attacks...
Organizations Suffer Outbound Email Data Breaches Every 12 Working Hours
Egress, a provider of human layer data security solutions, stated that several organizations suffered data breach incidents due to outbound email errors in the...
eCrime Activities and Hands-on Keyboard Intrusions Rise in H1 2020
A research report from CrowdStrike Inc., the developer of cloud-delivered endpoint protection solutions, revealed that eCrime activities and other malicious actions of state-sponsored actors...
