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The Rise of Cybercrime – An Overview

Cybercrimes are more rampant in the year 2022. The rate of cybercrimes is increasing every year, and it is expected to reach its highest next year. It is said that cybercrime affects the security of more than 80% of businesses throughout the world today. It is mainly due to the limited capabilities of authorities in monitoring cyberattacks because this type of crime is performed using the virtual world.

According to the cybersecurity stats, more than half of cyberattacks are done through ransomware attacks. The statistics further stated that healthcare databases are the most targeted because of their importance to businesses. In addition, social media websites are also abused to spread malware and viruses or compromise sensitive information.

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Ransomware as a Service: The Trending Business Model for Attacks

Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) is the new and trending business model for ransomware attacks. It’s a decentralized and mostly automated mode of distribution to support the fast-growing demands of ransomware operators.

Currently, the attackers behind ransomware campaigns are constantly looking for ways to maximize profit (and minimize the effort). The RaaS framework can be used by anyone, even without any coding skills, as it provides essential tools to implement encryption and communication with command-and-control servers quickly.

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Has Your Email Been Hacked? Part-1

Having your email hacked, whether it's a personal or commercial account, is a terrifying prospect. Hackers may easily acquire access to everything you've supplied – such as passwords, account numbers, or bank information - and they can even use your account to deliver viruses to other computers, which they can then breach.

In this three-part series, we'll go through how to tell if you've been hacked, how to notify the hackers and get them out of your accounts, and how to avoid being attacked in the future. Why am I writing this article? Recently, my company and I faced a phishing attack and we have faced some serious issues. From that almost life-threatening experience, I am sharing the process, findings, and lessons.

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How To Start a Successful Phishing Simulation Program

Simulated phishing attacks provide an effective way to help identify, track and measure weaknesses and improvements in your security program as they relate to phishing and social engineering. Phishing simulation can also help you identify which types of phishing attacks are most successful against your organization and which groups of employees to focus more on as part of your security awareness training efforts.

There are several ways to run phishing simulation exercises across your organization. One of the quickest and safest ways to do this is to use phishing simulation software and tools to send employees a simulated phishing email. However, there’s more to a fruitful phishing simulation exercise than just the tools that help you carry it out.

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Malware Distributed in Spoofed Passwordstate Breach Notification Letters

After a supply chain attack that saw the software update feature of the Passwordstate password manager hijacked the threat group developed a convincing phishing campaign targeting enterprise users of the password manager solution.

The attack only lasted 28 hours before it was identified and blocked, but in order to remove the malware from customers’ devices, Click Studios, the developer of the password app, emailed customers and encouraged them to apply a hotfix to remove the malware.

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How to Keep Mobile Phones Secure

Smartphones are an inseparable part of our lives. If our phone is taken away from us for even a day, for most of us it’s like being deprived of a basic need. We store all kinds of data in our phone – contacts, photos, videos, personal data, documents; we use numerous apps for making our lives easy – banking, insurance, online shopping, stocks, real estate; we rely on our phone for communication and socialising – chatting and video calling, social media, emails, professional groups; the list is endless with what phones can be used for.

Needless to say, if one loses their phone or it gets stolen, all that data and information is at risk. If there was no screen lock on the phone, the person who has or finds the phone can do serious damage if they want to. For instance:

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Be Aware of Zoom Phishing Scams

Late last year, video conferencing platform Zoom hosted around 10 million users - a pretty decent number for a service not many people knew existed. Fast forward to the COVID-19 pandemic currently burning through the globe and keeping people home, Zoom's user base has exploded to over 200 million users. That's a massive increase, and as with all things that attract that many people, expect an army of cyber attackers wanting a piece of the action.

It's no secret that cybercriminals follow the herd because that's where the money is. With Zoom experiencing record-breaking numbers, the scammers are out in full force, trying to trick users into giving up their login credentials or force them to download malware.

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Protect Active Directory Logins to Secure Remote Working

In the past few weeks, the majority of businesses were forced to shift to remote working. This situation is seen as a great opportunity for hackers to find new vulnerabilities to exploit. When a remote employee logins to the corporate network, it actually creates an access point that can be exploited.

Active Directory (AD) is the core identity and access platform for organizations all around the world. The best way to secure your network is to protect the remote use of these AD credentials.

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6 Tricks Phishers Use to Trick Your Employees And How to Remain Safe

It doesn’t matter how small or big your organization is, you can potentially be the victim of the next phishing attack. Serious financial implications and a dent in reputation and customer base are just a few consequences any organization can face. Phishing attacks can cost your company confidential data through emails, malware, VoIP, text, and other communication channels available.

Statistics prove that phishing is real, and organizations are falling prey to it. Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that almost one-third of the data breaches in 2018 were cases of phishing. Email is the carrier of 90% of infectious software and malware. Every month almost 1.5 million spoof websites are created by phishers.