Every time your customers make an online payment, they trust that their sensitive data won’t end up in the wrong hands. But what if it did? With cybercriminals using AI and launching direct attacks on payment systems, securing financial transactions has become a high-stakes challenge for businesses worldwide. In the first half of 2023, around 48.77 billion card payments were made with EU/EEA-issued cards, of which an average of 7.31 million were fraudulent.

For an enterprise business, the holidays can be a mixed bag. On the one hand, depending on your industry, you’re either winding down or doing the most business you’ll do all year. On the other, you’re especially vulnerable to holiday hacking attempts. Your customer data makes your organization an attractive target at a time when employee vacation time and office closures mean you have fewer employees to guard against holiday hackers.

The holidays are a hectic time. It’s often the busiest sales period of the year, generating the lion’s share of revenue for many organizations. At the same time, employees are wrapping up their big projects before the office closes for the winter break. Meanwhile, everyone’s trying to work around increasingly packed schedules while caring for their personal and family needs.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the use of open-source red teaming tools has become indispensable. These tools not only raise awareness about potential vulnerabilities but also encourage security teams to think like attackers so they can begin the process of protecting their organizations against them. By simulating real-world attack scenarios, organizations can better understand their security posture and proactively address weaknesses.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) provides secure and reliable communication networks for over 11500 connected financial institutions to facilitate cross-border payments and securities transactions.

Welcome to the most prestigious event in the world of cyber trickery: the annual Avast Phishing Awards! Join us as we unveil the most noteworthy, side-eye-inducing, and downright dubious email headlines that made this such a year to remember.

Google Workspace is a popular productivity suite, and its broad collection of apps (such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and Docs) can give attackers a central point of entry for accessing sensitive and valuable data if they compromise an account. Learning how to identify malicious activity in your Workspace environment enables you to stop threats before they become more serious. In this post, we’ll look at a few ways attackers gain access to and take advantage of Google Workspace.