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Spear phishing attacks against the education sector
25 December 2020
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Spear phishing attacks

Barracuda Networks has evaluated 3,5 million spear phishing attacks against the education sector. The result: educational institutions are twice as badly affected by BEC attacks than other organizations. Due to the dynamic pandemic development, many schools and universities are still heavily reliant on email communication to keep teachers, pupils and students informed about the current situation. Hackers are taking advantage of this situation by increasingly targeting educational institutions with spear phishing attacks. Below is a closer look at the methods used by cyber criminals and best practices that organizations in the education sector use to protect themselves against attacks ...

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Four out of ten Covid-related emails are spam
21 October 2020
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Bitdefender_News

The Bitdefender Mid-Year Report shows: The current pandemic has changed the threat landscape. Four out of ten Covid-related emails were spam. The threat landscape has always been influenced by events and changes in society; however, the global coronavirus pandemic has made a significant change in the way cybercriminals operate and hone their skills. The defining feature of the first half of 2020 was the extensive reference to the pandemic. Cyber ​​criminals have taken advantage of the population's fear and need for information - the increase in fraud, phishing and malware on all platforms and ...

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Phishing emails are dangerous even without a link
15 October 2020
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So far it was clear: an email with a strange link - hands off! But now the phishing gangsters have come up with a new trick to deceive users without any links. But even these fraud attacks can be identified and neutralized in good time with a little attention. It is the eternal “game” between security specialists and cyber crooks: who is faster, more creative and has the longer breath. True to this motto, the internet villains have come up with something new again: phishing emails without a link. Most phishing emails are built on three main components An email with ...

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Corona spam campaign
September 24, 2020
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G Data News

G Data warns of an active spam campaign: Alleged corona health and safety rules contain malware. Criminals are currently sending a document with allegedly changed corona occupational safety rules. The mail is disguised as information from the Ministry of Health. An email allegedly from the Federal Ministry of Health contains a downloader for malware. The file attachment with the name "Bund-Arbeitsschutzregel-Corona-September.zip" allegedly contains a document with updated and now binding rules for infection protection at the workplace. The text of the mail allows the conclusion that companies are primarily the target group. For this reason, companies need to be particularly careful at the moment when alleged ...

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