The FBI and White House confirmed Monday that the DarkSide ransomware variant was used in the Friday attack that caused disruptions at Colonial Pipeline Co., which operates a pipeline that supplies fuel throughout the eastern U.S. But the gang behind the ransomware tried to shift the blame to an affiliate.
Phishing, online fraud, cryptocurrency scams – they are coming at lightning speed, threatening enterprises and their brands. And just as fraudsters rely on automation to deliver these attacks, defenders can use automated tools to protect their brands. Jeff Baher of Bolster tells how.
After the 2008 financial crisis, reform was developed to strengthen the financial resilience of the financial sector but broadly omitted cyber threats and risks.
Yet cyber threats pose a significant challenge to the operational resilience, performance and stability of the financial sector.
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As times change, many companies and organizations have worked on ramping up their multi-faceted security defenses. However, threat actors and cyber criminals also adapt and hunt for new vulnerabilities, compromising data by embracing new exploits to ensure substantial financial payoff.
In this report, we...
The changing threat landscape and the frequency, sophistication and targeted nature of adversaries require an evolution of security operational practices with a combination of prevention, detection and response of cyber attacks.
This report from Watchguard helps security teams understand the well-known cyber-attack...
Email remains the most common channel for opportunistic and targeted cyber attacks—and a major source of data loss. As organizations like yours migrate to the cloud and quickly shift to a remote-work model, they must prepare for new classes of advanced email threats and attack vectors.
It's not always clear how...
At the heart of every cyberattack is an element of social engineering. From more common attacks, such as phishing, to more sophisticated attacks, such as authorized push payments and voice scams, cybercriminals have impersonation of our most-trusted institutions down to a science. This e-book explores how behavioral...
The cryptocurrency company Tether has refused to pay a ransom of 500 bitcoins ($24 million) after hackers threatened to leak sensitive data if the company failed to pay.
There is a reason more than half of today’s ransomware victims end up paying the ransom. Cyber-criminals have become thoughtful; taking time to maximize your organisation’s potential damage and their payoff. After achieving root access, the bad guys explore your network reading email, finding data troves and once...
Recent high-profile security breaches have shown how cyber criminals are actively exploiting expanded network perimeters and weak authentication implementations to drive successful identity phishing attacks across financial services. The New York Department of Financial Services Report on the 2020 Twitter hack...
Leverage Gartner insights to fortify payment fraud prevention strategies
As businesses transform to meet shifting consumer behavior and emerging fraud patterns in digital channels, it’s never been more important to assess the comprehensive financial impact of fraud solutions.
According to Gartner, “In...
The mobile channel saw great user adoption in 2020 - and it saw a corresponding increase in fraud incidents. Tim Dalgleish of BioCatch discusses mobile fraud trends and the role of behavioral biometrics in enhancing user authentication.
Manufacturing System Protection from Cyber Attacks Industry 4.0 drives manufacturing efficiency by connecting systems to automate, share data, consolidate operations, and streamline production.
Email filtering often misses malicious sites because detection-based techniques find it difficult to continuously build defenses against the large number of phishing sites created daily.
Yet, while email phishing attacks are highly successful, they are also entirely avoidable. Email Isolation provides organizations...
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 us as we explore 10 ways hackers use social engineering to trick your users into revealing sensitive data or enabling malicious...
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