Phishing attacks have consistently been prominent in cybercrime throughout the past few years, not only due to their efficacy but also because there are so many avenues wherein phishing can be attempted. The first that comes to mind is email, of course, but you and your team need to keep these others in mind.
Take, for instance, a phishing voicemailā¦dubbed, naturally, a āphoicemail.ā
It hasnāt been very long since T-Mobile experienced its latest major hack, but unfortunately, here we are again. Hackers have again accessed customer data, with 37 million customers being affected amongst both their prepaid and subscription-based accounts.
Letās dive into the situation, and what can be learned from it.
With so many threats out in the world, itās no surprise that some of them target undiscovered vulnerabilities. These types of threats use what are called zero-day exploits to make attempts at your sensitive data and technology infrastructure. What is it about zero-day exploits that you must keep in mind during your day-to-day operations and in planning for the future?
Sometimes the worst scams out there are the simplest ones. Hackers donāt need a fancy or complicated malware or algorithm to create chaos for your organization; all they have to do is convince you that the email youāve received in your inbox is from someone of authority within your business. Letās go over how a business email compromise is pulled off and why you need to be wary of threats like these.
Due to the almost faceless nature of many cybercrime acts, it can be easy to see them as nothing more than the acts themselves, which is of course not true in the slightest. Behind these attacks are people, and where people performing illegal acts are concerned, there will always be concerns about other criminal acts which perpetuate the ones at the surface.
There is always the possibility that you have been involved with a data breach and you simply have not been contacted by the affected party. Plus, if a hacker has managed to crack a website or service without being detected, you wouldnāt be notified in any case, either. Ask yourself this question: if I were to be involved with a data breach, how would I know it, and what can I do about it? And what is my data being used for anyway?
Let me ask you a few questionsāfirst, how confident are you that you could spot an online ruse, and second, did you know thereās a stain on your shirt right now?
Did you look?
If so, youāve just fallen for the school playground version of social engineering, a serious threat. Letās discuss the kind that youāre more likely to see in terms of your businessā cybersecurity.
Data breachesāany event where a businessā confidential data is viewed, copied, or stolen by an unauthorized person or partyāare a serious problem. Unfortunately, they are also a serious problem that can be caused by no shortage of situations. Letās review some of the causes of business data breaches so youāll know what to keep an eye out for.
Cybersecurity is an important subject for a businessā entire team to appreciate, particularly when it comes to the minute differences between different terms. For instance, a layperson might hear ābreachā and automatically think āsecurity incident.ā While this technically isnāt incorrect, per se, the two terms arenāt really synonymous.
Letās take a few moments to dive into the minutiae and define these two terms more clearly.
Data breaches are an unfortunate reality in this day and age, even during the holiday season. While it is important to do everything you can to prevent these kinds of disasters, you need to be prepared to deal with itāboth in terms of your operations, and in terms of communicating with your clientele.
Twitch, Amazonās popular streaming service where gamers and content creators broadcast to wide audiences, recently suffered a data breach. Thanks to this data breach, folks on the Internet now know just how much these content creators make, and it has exposed a whole new issue that Amazon must resolve.
Many threats immediately make themselves known on your device the second they install themselves, like ransomware and other types of malware. Others, like this newly discovered threat called MosaicLoader, discreetly install themselves in the background of your device and cause problems behind the scenes.
The cyberattack on SolarWinds was devastating for many reasons, and Microsoft has officially uncovered yet another type of malware used in the attack on the software provider. This time, it is a backdoor threat they have named FoggyWeb. What does this threat do and why is it so important to look at this incident even now?
Ransomware is such a massive threat that all businesses should be aware of the latest news and findings regarding how it spreads and how it can be prevented. According to a recent report, the latest modes of transporting ransomware have been revealed. What can your organization do to keep ransomware off of its network? Letās find out.
āHackers are a serious threat to modern businessesā isnāt exactly a novel statement, is it? However, if a hacker was to be lurking on your network, would you know the signs to help you catch them? Just in case, we wanted to share a few strategies that can help highlight these warnings so you can more effectively catch any threats present on your networkāparticularly when your workforce is accessing it remotely.
Nothing is more frustrating than going to log into your device and finding out that you either cannot access it or that files you thought were there have been wiped. Unfortunately, this is the situation that many users of a specific device have recently gone through. Thanks to an unpatched vulnerability, users of Western Digitalās My Book network-attached storage device are suffering from lost files and lost account access stemming from remote access.