The bad guys are getting very creative, impersonating an executive in your organization and asking for financial reports or they ask employees in payroll to make changes to bank accounts. According to the FBI, their efforts have earned them an estimated $12 billion through Business Email Compromise also know as CEO...
Fraud, e-hustles and social engineering attacks continues to proliferate, the FBI's latest report into the state of internet crime confirms. But over the past year, a new FBI tactic for quickly stopping fraudulent wire transfers has notched notable successes.
Among the top new spear phishing threats to enterprises: Extortion. Asaf Cidon of Barracuda outlines the top three spear phishing threats and new strategies to defend against them.
A 31-year-old Maryland man will serve time in prison for his leadership role in a business email compromise scheme that netted him and five others $4.2 million from 13 victims over a two-year period.
West African fraudsters have moved beyond Nigerian prince scams and embraced business email compromises and other types of attacks, says Crane Hassold of Agari.
Beazley Breach Response Services, a unit of global insurance company Beazley, reports that nearly half of the more than 3,300 breaches it investigated last year traced to a hack attack or malware infection. And half of those hacking/malware attacks were tied to business email compromise schemes.
Email fraud and phishing continue to be an effective attack vendor as they are relatively inexpensive and take advantage of the weakest link in your security program: your users. Combatting these attacks is slow and labor intensive as security analysts typically spend hours trying to determine if an email and its...
Office 365 provides a solid foundation to which many organizations should add third-party solutions in order to provide higher levels of security, content management, encryption and other capabilities.
Download this Osterman Research report and learn about Office 365's:
Limitations in data loss prevention...
A recent report from Osterman Research has shown that while Office 365 has many benefits, its broad, one-size-fits-all approach means not all information security scenarios and use cases are addressed. As a result, organisations are spending 37% of the average Office 365 deployment budget on complementary third-party...
A new generation of cybercriminal organizations that pair identity deception techniques with personalized, socially-engineered emails are the driving force behind rapidly-evolving, socially-engineered email threats that grow more dangerous by the day.
Businesses aren't alone in the crosshairs. Every minute of the...
Office 365 provides a solid foundation to which many organizations should add third-party solutions in order to provide higher levels of security, content management, encryption and other capabilities.
Download this Osterman Research report and learn about Office 365's:
Limitations in data loss prevention...
This Valentine's Day, authorities are once again warning individuals to watch out for anyone perpetrating romance scams. The FTC says Americans lost $143 million to romance scams in 2017, while in the U.K., Action Fraud says reported romance scam losses in 2018 topped $64 million.
Email is still the #1 attack vector the bad guys use. A whopping 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email, but email hacking is much more than phishing and launching malware!
Join Roger A. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist and security expert with over 30-years of experience, for this webinar...
Most companies have huge gaps in their cyber defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: Assume Breach.
Join Roger A. Grimes, a 30-year computer consultant, for this webinar where he explores the latest research on what's wrong with current defenses and how...
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