No matter how much security technology we purchase, we still face a fundamental security problem: people. This webinar will explore the different levers that social engineers and scam artists pull to make us more likely to do their bidding.
Join Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate for KnowBe4, as he provides...
Business email compromise attacks, which balance low-tech tactics with the potential for big profits, remain popular. Attackers continue to refine their tactics, including subverting legitimate redirect services as well as recruiting English-speaking business partners and cryptocurrency tumbler operators.
Given that budgets and time are finite, how can organizations best identify if their information security strategy is well balanced and appropriate? Nandhini Duraisamy, chief operating officer of Quadron Cybersecurity Services, shares best practices.
Users of OpenSea, a marketplace for blockchain-based digital assets such as crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens, are being targeted by scammers pretending to be the company's support staff on Discord. The attackers exploited a method OpenSea uses to service support tickets on Discord.
Because a relatively small number of individuals provide the vast majority of services and infrastructure that power cybercrime, they remain top targets for arrest - or at least disruption - by law enforcement authorities, says cybercrime expert Alan Woodward. But of course, geopolitics sometimes gets in the way.
A necessary pillar of an effective cyber defense strategy is the capability to detect and mitigate threats at the earliest stages of the cyber kill chain. While internal and perimeter security solutions are critical to your security program, external threat intelligence gives you the ability to defend forward by...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will monitor decentralized finance transactions, after contracting with the blockchain cybersecurity firm AnChain.AI. Legal experts suggest this and other recent moves preview increased regulation of the decentralized finance space.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has instructed depositories in the country to use distributed ledger technology to record and monitor the creation of securities as well as contracts of nonconvertible securities. The new monitoring system is expected to be implemented by April 1, 2022.
Microsoft is warning of a "widespread" phishing campaign in which fraudsters use open redirect links to lure users to malicious websites to harvest Office 365 and other credentials, according to a recent report. In some cases, the attackers deploy a malicious CAPTCHA verification page.
Local officials with the city of Rolle, located near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, have acknowledged that they initially misjudged the impact of a recent ransomware attack that reportedly led to the leak of residents' data on the darknet.
Sen. Pat Toomey of the Senate Banking Committee is requesting input from the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to inform future legislation on its security and privacy. Several experts praise efforts to regulate the space, but cite its complexities.
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...
As initial consumer reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic settled into durable, more defined buying behaviors in the second half of 2020, the importance of a robust and seamlessly connected omni-channel ecosystem became evident.
The sale and purchase of unauthorized access to compromised enterprise networks has become a significant enabler for criminal cyberattacks, particularly ransomware infections. Some cybercriminals specialize in network compromises and sell the access that they have obtained to third parties, rather than exploiting the...
Banks are uniquely exposed to secondhand risk and fraud resulting from compromises of payment card information at merchants in other industries, particularly retail, hospitality, and ecommerce. A significant proportion of fraud against retail banks issuing credit cards therefore results from incidents on networks and...
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