Posts Tagged ‘phishing’
Many cybercriminals look at small businesses like blank checks. More often than not, small businesses just don’t put money into their cyber security, and hackers and cybercriminals love those odds. They can target small businesses at random, and they are all but guaranteed to find a business that has no IT security – or the business does have some security but it isn’t set up correctly.
At the same time, cybercriminals send e-mails to businesses (and all the employees) with links to phishing websites (websites designed to look like familiar and legitimate websites) or links to malware. They hope employees will click on the links and give the criminals the information they want. All it takes is ONE employee to make the click.
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Cyberthreats are everywhere these days. Hackers, scammers and cybercriminals are working overtime to break into your network – and the network of just about every business out there. They have a huge arsenal of tools at their disposal, from automated bots to malicious advertising networks, to make it possible.
But there is one “tool” that you may be putting directly into their hands: your employees. Specifically, your employees’ lack of IT security training.
While most of us expect hackers to attack from the outside using malware or brute-force attacks (hacking, in a more traditional sense), the truth is that most hackers love it when they can get others to do their work for them.
In other words, if they can fool your employees into clicking on a link in an e-mail or downloading unapproved software onto a company device, all the hackers have to do is sit back while your employees wreak havoc. The worst part is that your employees may not even realize that their actions are compromising your network. And that’s a problem.
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You’ve probably heard tech-savvy friends and IT professionals warn about the dangers of phishing attacks; they can be particularly devastating to business operations. But what is phishing, exactly, and what threat does it pose to you? Let’s go over the basics of phishing and what you can do to protect yourself against cyberattacks:
A phishing email is an email sent by a hacker designed to fool the recipient into downloading a virus, giving up their credit card number, personal information (like a social security number), or account or login information to a particular website. Often these emails are designed to look exactly like an official notification from the site they are trying to emulate.
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Mobile phishing campaigns could be targeting your bank. In fact, phishing attackers are targeting bank accounts more in 2020 than ever before. Criminals found the easiest way to get in is through your mobile phone. Some of the recent targets? Capital One and Chase are two of the dozens of phished that have been identified recently.
Hackers are using automated SMS tools to blast bogus security text messages to you and have successfully snatched accounts from thousands so far—that’s of the millions receiving these texts.
Phishing is the number one way ransomware is transmitted, and according to the Department of Homeland Security, businesses should be on high alert.
What can you do? What do you need to know to avoid being phished?
Cybersecurity experts just revealed yet another way criminals are trying to deceive your users.
The culprit?
A sneakier phishing attack that has been hard to detect.
You see, this phishing attack uses a new technique to hide the malicious code on the page to where a link in an email takes a user. This attack has led to numerous thieves stealing user credentials from all sorts of secure organizations ranging the gamut from banks to hospitals.
This attack evades detection using a never-seen-before trick that leverages a customized font to cover up any sign that it a malicious attack.
Recent research discoverers new credential-harvesting malicious phishing attack
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