To prevent staff from falling victim to phishing attacks and other cleversocial engineering attempts, they should be educated about how to identify common cyber threats andprevious malicious attack behaviors.Ideally, this effort should be a component of a broadercyber threat detection and responsestrateg...
1. Phishing/Social Engineering Attacks Phishing attacks are a type of social engineering attack during which the attacker creates a fraudulent text, email, or website that looks legitimate and tricks the user into providing sensitive information. [Don’t confuse phishing with the above :)] That s...
Second, Microsoft revealed that a Russian cybercriminal group it tracks asStorm-0978exploited CVE-2023-36884 in an espionage-focused phishing campaign as well as financially motivated ransomware attacks. According toMicrosoft's report, Storm-0978's campaign targeted defense organizations and government en...
If hackers were to launch successful phishing attacks on these users, they could gain deeper access to personal photos and business information. Due to the licentious connection of the breached database, compromised users could fall victim to blackmail and defamation attempts for many years to come...
5. Phishing Phishing attacks on the manufacturing industry rose more than 80% between September 2023 and September 2024, according to a study by Abnormal Security. Business email compromise attacks targeting manufacturers have increased 56% year over year. Between September 2023 and September 2024, th...
In January,Microsoft disclosedthat Russian state-sponsored threat actors breached their corporate email servers in November 2023 to steal email from their leadership, cybersecurity, and legal teams. Some of these emails contained information about the hacking group itself, allowing the threat actors to...
Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023 and 2024 Source: IT Governance The Top 3 Biggest Data Breaches in 2023 In 2023, our newsfeeds quickly filled with breaking news about massive data breaches. T-Mobile faced multiple attacks throughout the year, affecting millions of customers through...
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In 2023 and beyond, attackers are expected to use IoT devices more frequently to carry out ransomware attacks. (Security Boulevard via RSA Security) Since 2016, annual revenue for the corporate web security industry has increased yearly, and it is expected to reach nearly $8 billion by 2025. ...
3. CoinsPaid Phishing Scam Phishing is a very popular social engineering tacticused by cybercriminals, and has done a lot of damage in the crypto industry. In August 2023, crypto payment processor CoinsPaid suffered a $37 million hack when malicious actors targeted an employee with a phony job...