Topic: phishing
The C-suite conundrum: Are senior executives the Achilles’ heel of cybersecurity?
In today’s digital landscape, an organization’s C-suite and senior executives hold the most valuable corporate data and sign-off authorities, representing the highest potential risk over email. Whether it’s inbound spear phishing attacks or outbound mistakes resulting in a damaging data breach, the C-suite is vulnerable. But what do cybercriminals want from these individuals? Are breaches … continue reading
Report: Phishing is most dominant cyber attack
Phishing remains the most dominant and fastest-growing Internet crime, largely due to the ubiquity of email and the ceaseless issue of human error that is preyed upon by today’s threat actors, according to Cloudflare’s inaugural 2023 Phishing Threat Report. The impact of phishing is not limited to large corporations; it affects small businesses, local entities, … continue reading
Cloudflare shares list of the most impersonated brands and announces new tools to protect employees
The security, performance, and reliability company Cloudflare today published a global report on the Top 50 Brands Used in Phishing Attacks. With this the company has also announced that it is opening beta access to its new brand and anti-phishing tools directly from the Security Center dashboard. The company’s intention with these tools is to … continue reading
Report: Small businesses receive 350% more social engineering attacks than enterprises, mostly from Microsoft impersonators
An average employee of a small business with less than 100 employees will receive 350% more social engineering attacks than an employee of a larger enterprise. The most commonly impersonated brand is Microsoft, used by cybercriminals in 57% of phishing attacks – the most prevalent social engineering attack of 2021. These findings are from the … continue reading
SiteLock announces new security awareness training program for SMBs
Phishing has always been a concern for organizations, but recent research from Barracuda has highlighted the increased need for security awareness as coronavirus-related phishing scams continue to rise. The research found that such scams have been steadily increasing since January and increased by 667% from the end of February to the end of March. Training … continue reading
