One-out-of-five employees will likely click on a phishing email link. Of those, more than two-thirds (67.5%) will then enter their credentials on the attacker’s website. Making Phishing the most common type of cyber fraud globally.
91% of phishing emails are sent to seduce employees into revealing their passwords...
Every 11 seconds a ransomware attack takes place in 1 out of 3 global businesses.
Analysts predict that the frequency of ransomware attacks will rise to one every two seconds, as perpetrators refine their malware and attack methods. The cost of these attacks is expected to soar as well, reaching $265 billion by...
Yes, you know they are coming. And yes, the fraudsters have raised their game. But that doesn't mean you can't stop socially engineered attacks before threat actors can pull off their scams. Mike Britton of Abnormal Security tells you how.
In this exclusive interview with Information Security Media Group, Mike...
There is little doubt that business email compromise is a prevalent and
financially damaging threat. By exploiting the relationships that people have
established with their executives, coworkers, and partners, these attacks dupe
both traditional email security tools and the humans they target. Stopping...
As organizations pursue a new paradigm for protection against
advanced email threats, they should look for one that provides the
greatest efficiencies with their M365 architecture and existing EOP
and/or MDO investments. To do so, they should turn to a solution with
an API-based architecture that uses data science...
The COVID-19 crisis has posed an unparalleled challenge for cybersecurity. Like COVID-19, cyberattacks spread fast and far - creating more and more damage. But the pandemic has also had a positive impact on the cybersecurity function, which Tarun Kumar, CISO at Nissan, describes here.
A recently uncovered phishing campaign used fake COVID-19 vaccination forms - and took advantage of confusion over whether employees will return to their offices this fall - to harvest workers' email credentials, according to analysts with security firm INKY. The malicious messages appear to come from victims' HR...
Protect Your Organization. Stop Vendor Email Compromise.
Do you know if that email from your vendor is actually from your vendor?
Cybercriminals use compromised email accounts to commit invoice, payment, and RFQ fraud. Traditional email security platforms can't catch these attacks because they come from real email...
While you may be confident in your own email security, the truth is that your security is only as good as your partners’ and vendors’. Attackers have pivoted their strategy to focus on exploiting these trusted relationships to launch supply chain attacks, including payment, invoice, and RFQ fraud. In many cases,...
Attackers are leveraging social engineering to drive significantly higher engagement and account takeover. Abnormal Security's quarterly threat reports are the only source of industry data on the true volume of BEC attacks. In our latest threat report, we found that attacks across a variety of categories grew at...
Many organizations can often underestimate their level of cyber
risk or overestimate the strength of their security controls. When it
comes to cyber security, they cannot afford to make mistakes because the
cost of a data breach is incredibly high. For some organizations, the
impact of a breach can cause...
The past year has taught us much about resilience. But how do we update our tools and skills for the future? Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president at Microsoft, discusses new, fundamental cybersecurity shifts and how our strategies for acquring skills and diversity must reflect them.
The move to the cloud with O365 has allowed companies to streamline email security investments and leverage the included email security provided by Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). But this approach isn't perfect, and many companies have realized they need a solution to address...
Interpol says Dutch and Nigerian suspects created a cloned version of a legitimate personal protective equipment provider's website to trick a German health authority seeking face masks. The case is a reminder that a "sophisticated" scheme need not require extreme technical sophistication to succeed.
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