Looking Ahead: Five Security Trends For 2022
A look at some of the key security trends for next year By Mark Guntrip, Strategy Leader at Menlo Security. Ransomware and the fight back Ransomware has dominated the…
Prominent Carding Marketplace UniCC announced it’s shutting down
One of the biggest underground carding marketplaces, UniCC, announced it’s shutting down its operations. UniCC, one of the biggest underground carding marketplaces announced it is shutting down. The site was…
Russian government claims to have dismantled REvil ransomware gang
Russia’s FSB announced to have dismantled the REvil ransomware gang, the infamous group behind Kaseya and JBS USA. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced to have shut down the…
Why Americans Joined Europe in Not Paying Security Ransoms
By Lee Pitman, Global Head of Response Services, BreachQuest As we close out 2021, the biggest trend in the security and insurance space has to be the heightened regulatory scrutiny…
Microsoft Successfully Defended The Azure Cloud From A Massive DDOS Attack. (Spoiler: You Can, Too.)
How can you fend off the largest DDoS attack in history? For Microsoft, early detection and investing in software as a service was key. Read on to learn more. By…
How to Avoid Spam Texts and Protect Personal Information in the Digital Age
With Spam Texts on the Rise Consumers Must do their Due Diligence By Reinhard Seidel, Director Products at Clickatell How to Avoid Spam Texts and Protect Personal Information in the…
Why Hackers Attack Mobile Devices and How to Prevent It
By Nicole Allen, Marketing Executive at Salt Communications According to a Gallup poll, the frequency of remote work cyber-attacks has nearly doubled since the beginning of the pandemic. Employees were…
FIN7 group continues to target US companies with BadUSB devices
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns US companies that the FIN7 cybercriminals group is targeting the US defense industry with BadUSB devices. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued…
It’s 2022 And Cyber Deception Has Arrived – Defeat Tomorrow’s Threat Today
Lessons from The Cheshire Cat in Concealment & Misdirection Cyber deception has come a long way from deploying honeypots on the external interface to research attack activity. Nowadays, deception technology…
Phishing: How To Improve Cybersecurity Awareness
By Jason Stirland, CTO at DeltaNet International According to research by Proofpoint, 75% of organizations around the world experienced a phishing attack in 2020, and 74% of attacks targeting US businesses were…
How To Thwart Fraud with Phone Numbers
By Guillaume Bourcy, Vice President, Data & Identity Solutions, TeleSign During the peak of the global pandemic, online shopping and cybercriminal activity hit unprecedented figures, hitting merchants’ bottom lines hard….
Surviving The New Era of Terabit-Class DDoS Attacks
By Richard Hummel, Threat Intelligence Lead, NETSCOUTy In March 2018, a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) disrupted service for the developer platform GitHub. The attack, which lasted for approximately…