Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office document formats are popular among attackers, who abuse them to infect their victims with ransomware, infostealers, backdoors, and other malware. In this article, we look at the anatomy of a recent Office document attack from the victim’s perspective, highlight the most common types of Office document attacks seen today, and suggest strategies to reduce your risk of becoming the latest victim.

There are countless reasons why you might want to keep the websites you’re visiting a secret. For example, you could be planning a surprise vacation for your best friend, seeking out information that’s meant to be banned in your country, or simply trying to minimize what advertisers know about you.

Our previous blog post on authorization security covered the seven most common authorization vulnerabilities. This post will discuss 11 authorization best practices that help avoid vulnerabilities and defeat specific attack vectors.

At the Rubrik Data Security Spotlight, we introduced Rubrik Cloud Vault, our fully managed, secure, and isolated cloud vault service built on Microsoft Azure. Rubrik Cloud Vault enables customers to build a comprehensive and multi-layered data protection strategy to be cyber resilient.

In today’s environment, much of the population are doing their bank or financial transactions online and online banking or wire transfers have become a huge necessity. Recently, we received a phishing email that is targeting PayPal accounts. The email header contains an alarming subject and the From: address is a spoofed PayPal-like domain. The Message-Id is also highly suspicious as it uses web hosting site DreamHost which is not related to PayPal.

Early in the morning of March 22nd a threat group known as LAPSUS$ posted screenshots on their Telegram account that allegedly show access to Okta internal systems such as Slack, Cloudflare, Jira, Salesforce and other “Okta cards.” Okta’s CEO Todd McKinnon apparently confirmed an event in January in a tweet:: “In late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors.