Cyberattacks

How Is Ransomware Delivered?

Feb 28, 2024 By Aranza Trevino In Keeper

Some of the most common ways ransomware is delivered are through phishing emails, drive-by downloads, exploit kits and RDP exploits. According to Malwarebytes’ 2024 State of Malware report, in 2023 the number of known ransomware attacks increased by 68% from the previous year. The report also found that the largest ransom demanded in 2023 was $80 million.

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Account Takeover Attack Live Simulation

Feb 28, 2024 By Indusface In Indusface

Account takeover attacks have increased by 354% y-o-y in 2023. What’s worse? It takes 11 months to solve an ATO breach. By that time, attackers would have laterally traversed your entire digital infrastructure, including databases. So, how do you protect your organisations against sophisticated ATO attacks that even bypass 2FA? In this live attack simulation, Karthik Krishnamoorthy (CTO) and Vivekanand Gopalan (VP of Products) demonstrate various ways in which account takeover can happen, along with practices to protect your websites and APIs against ATO attacks.

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Seven Types of Spoofing Attacks and How To Avoid Them

Feb 27, 2024 By Tim Tran In Keeper

Cybercriminals often use spoofing attacks to disguise themselves as a familiar face or legitimate business to trick people into revealing sensitive information. They use a variety of techniques such as creating fake websites or emails. Some of the different types of spoofing attacks include call spoofing, email spoofing, website spoofing and IP spoofing. Continue reading to learn more about spoofing attacks, the seven common types of spoofing attacks and how to stay protected from them.

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Monitor network attacks with Google Cloud Armor and Datadog

Feb 27, 2024 By Addie Beach In Datadog

Network security services like Google Cloud Armor enable you to filter incoming traffic so that you can prevent attacks from overwhelming your system or from reaching critical components of your application. However, these services often handle threats automatically, making it difficult to gain visibility into attempted security breaches.

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A Beginner's Guide to Ransomware: How to Recover from Ransomware Attacks - Part 11

Feb 26, 2024 By Bhavani Shanmugam In BDRSuite

This Beginner’s Guide to Ransomware is a comprehensive multi-part series that will empower you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of ransomware threats.

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Did you leave your front door open? Why cyberattacks surge using valid credentials

Feb 26, 2024 By Scott Gray In 11:11 Systems

Have you ever been locked out of the house? Maybe you forgot your keys on the kitchen table, lost them running errands, or unknowingly dropped them while attempting the It doesn’t matter how you got locked out, or how you got back in. What’s more important, for the purposes of this thought exercise, at least, is how you responded.

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Nearly One in Three Cyber Attacks In 2023 Involved The Abuse of Valid Accounts

Feb 23, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4

Thirty percent of all cyber incidents in 2023 involved abuse of valid credentials, according to IBM X-Force’s latest Threat Intelligence Index. This represents a seventy-one percent increase compared to 2022. “One of the top initial access vectors in 2023—jumping from third to first place— was the abuse of valid accounts identified in 30% of the observed incidents X-Force responded to,” the researchers write.

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What is Quishing?

Feb 23, 2024 By Jason McNicholas In Bulletproof

Malicious actors are always coming up with new and innovative ways to steal your money and information. This means it’s all the more important to be aware of these new attacks as they appear and know how to spot and respond to them. In this article I’ll be bringing attention to a new attack that has become increasingly common in recent months. That attack is called ‘Quishing’, and it is a specific new variant of the much broader attack known phishing.

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QR-Code Attacks Target the C-Suite 42 Times More than Standard Employees

Feb 21, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4

QR-code attacks leveraging QR-codes are kicking into high gear and becoming a common method used in phishing attacks, according to new data from Abnormal Security. We saw a surge in QR-code based phishing attacks late last year. And new data in security vendor Abnormal Security’s H1 2024 Email Threat Report gives us some additional insight into how these attacks are being executed.

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