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The enemy in your own inbox
The enemy in your own inbox

Attacking email accounts will continue to be one of the most popular methods used by cyber criminals to gain access to sensitive company information. Barracuda best practices for addressing a lack of integration between incident response and web security. Although classics such as compromised email attachments or links still serve their purpose, attackers do not necessarily want to rely on them: social engineering or the use of stolen credentials for planned data theft are far more difficult tactics. And so, inefficient responses to email attacks cost companies billions of dollars each year. Because for many companies, finding, identifying and removing email threats is a ...

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Cyber ​​criminals phish for data via messenger apps
Kaspersky_news

Due to their popularity, messenger apps such as WhatsApp continue to be a popular tool for phishing scammers, according to a recent analysis by Kaspersky. According to this, 2020 malicious links in connection with messengers were blocked worldwide between December 2021 and May 94.559. That corresponds to more than 500 incidents per day. 89,6 percent of this was on WhatsApp, 5,6 percent on Telegram, 4,7 percent on Viper and less than 0,1 percent on Hangouts. In Germany, 96 percent of phishing attempts took place via WhatsApp. Dangerous links via WhatsApp Messenger apps such as WhatsApp or Telegram are popular and will ...

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Spam & Phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany
Kaspersky_news

Spam and phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany. The Kaspersky Report shows: Covid-19 topic is still popular as bait among cyber criminals around the world. In the past year, COVID-19-related spam emails and phishing sites have become one of the most profitable fraud opportunities for cyber criminals due to the publicity and explosiveness of the topic. Fraudsters continue to exploit this issue, especially in Germany. In the first quarter of this year, around 15 percent of spam attacks worldwide came from Germany, which was the second highest figure in the world last year. At the same time, the opening rate of malicious emails in Germany was ...

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Study: Warning Signs of Phishing Attacks

New Barracuda study reveals geographic and network warning signs of phishing attacks. The country email originated from and the number of countries it was routed through on its way to its final destination are major warning signs of phishing attacks. A new study by Barracuda in collaboration with Columbia University analyzed the geolocation and network infrastructure of more than 2 billion emails sent in January 2020, including 218.000 phishing emails. The research showed that phishing emails were more likely to come from certain countries in parts of Eastern Europe, Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. 2 billion…

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Phishing remains hacker's favorite
Phishing remains hacker's favorite

Phishing remains hacker's favorite: finally putting a stop to one of the oldest hacking tricks. Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the cybercriminal arsenal. With this tactic, employees can become ignorant accomplices in a major cyber attack with just one click. Since the pandemic puts additional strain on employees, attackers are misusing the situation to capitalize on the crisis with a flood of corona-related phishing campaigns. Especially when cybercriminals gain access to legitimate login credentials through phishing attacks, the consequences for businesses can be devastating. Forrester estimates that 80 percent of security breaches are related to compromised privileged credentials….

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Phishing attacks with vaccine lies
Phishing attacks with vaccine lies

Just as cyber criminals have exploited the pandemic with corona-related phishing attacks, they are now trying to abuse the vaccine issue to steal money and personal information. The FBI issued a warning about emerging fraud attempts related to COVID-19 vaccines back in December. A Barracuda analysis conducted between October 2020 and January 2021 found that hackers are increasingly using vaccine-related emails in their targeted spear phishing attacks. Increase in attacks since November 2020 After pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Moderna announced the availability of vaccines in November 2020, the number of ...

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Barracuda Email ThreatScanner
Mail threat scanner

Barracuda Email Threat Scanner: New version comes with extended reporting and improved user interface. Free tool detects millions of attacks that are overlooked by many organizations' existing protection. Barracuda has made further improvements to its Barracuda Email Threat Scanner service. The new version of the free security tool received a complete update of the user interface. The service helps identify email threats that have managed to get through the company's gateway. These threats include highly targeted attacks such as spear phishing, compromising business emails, conversation hijacking and services impersonation. Email Threat Scanner Reports Attacks With Each ...

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Effective fraud prevention is behavior based
Scam Detection Phising Malware

Many companies use measures to combat fraud that are now outdated and do not work properly. This includes, for example, the search for malware or users who are redirected from known phishing sites. The process may seem plausible, but it doesn't really reduce fraud losses. This is due to the following reasons, among others. The hydra effect. The targeting of malicious code and phishing is like the Herculean fight against the many-headed Hydra. As soon as one head is done, two new ones grow back. Detection of malware is necessary, but hardly reduces ...

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Lucy Security relies on mobile applications
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

The focus of the new version of the Lucy Cybersecurity Awareness Platform 4.7.8 is on mobility: Users can use the phishing button on their smartphone and react more quickly to possible phishing emails. The Swiss company Lucy Security, one of the largest providers of IT security awareness training with over 11.000 installations worldwide and over 22 million trained users, presents its current version of the Lucy cybersecurity awareness platform. In the new version, the phishing alert button in particular has been further developed: the button for Office 365 can now also be used on smartphones for Android and iOS. The Lucy Security Platform 4.7.8 is ...

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Bank spam is on the rise
Bitdefender_News

Bank spam: increase in volume and sophistication. According to Bitdefender, spammers perfectly mimic industry jargon and layouts. Companies are also increasingly being targeted. E-mail-based attacks that imitate the customer communication of well-known financial institutions and online payment services have increased again sharply in the last few months. And the spammers are getting better at making their attacks appear like real banking services. Detailed imitations Many of the fraudulent emails imitate legitimate correspondence as sent by banks. In banking spam, they use real logos, specific layouts, and even the correct terminology. This makes it difficult for the recipients to ...

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