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From February to July 2023, Netskope Threat Labs has been tracking a staggering 61-fold increase in traffic to phishing pages hosted in Cloudflare R2. The majority of the phishing campaigns target Microsoft login credentials, although there are some pages targeting Adobe, Dropbox, and other cloud apps. The attacks have been targeting victims mainly in North America and Asia, across different segments, led by the technology, financial services, and banking sectors.

URL encoding is a method that ensures your URL only contains valid characters so that the receiving server can correctly interpret it. According to the RFC 3986 standard, URIs (which are a superset of URLs) only contain a limited set of characters consisting of digits, letters, and a few graphic symbols, all within the ASCII character set. If a URL contains characters outside this limited set, the characters must be percent-encoded.

Single Sign On (SSO) helps organizations improve their security posture while streamlining the employee login experience. Implementing an SSO platform across your organization is almost always a good idea. However, SSO leaves significant security and functionality gaps that organizations need to be aware of and address. SSO doesn’t cover everything. Many websites, applications, and systems are not included in SSO deployments, and each of those presents a cybersecurity risk.

You can tell if someone has hacked your router if you notice that you can’t log into your router’s admin settings, your browser keeps redirecting you or you receive suspicious activity alerts from your internet service provider, among other signs. Continue reading to learn how someone can hack your router and how you can protect your router from getting hacked going forward.

Fireblocks has launched support for Base mainnet, a new Ethereum L2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase that aims to “bring the next billion users on-chain.” Fireblocks users can now access Base with the ease, efficiency, and security they’ve come to expect from our platform.

Hospitality is a broad field encompassing service organizations that provide lodging, food and beverages, travel and tourism, and entertainment and recreation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the hospitality industry hard, it’s made significant steps toward recovery. Hospitality businesses must remain vigilant to continue this recovery amid an evolving cyber threat landscape.

While the tech sector is a pillar of efficiency and creativity, tech businesses are often vulnerable because of the type and amount of critically important data they handle. Tech companies are often at risk of cyber attacks from individual hackers, cyber spies, and nation-state-sponsored hacking groups. In this post, we’ll look at common traits of tech businesses that can expose them to cyber risks and make them a popular target for cybercriminals.

‍Educational institutions are among the top targets for hackers and cybercriminals. Education is among the sectors that experience the most cyber attacks, including healthcare, finance, and retail. According to Check Point’s Mid-Year Report for 2022, the education sector had 44% more cyber attacks than the year earlier. An average of about 2300 attacks against educational organizations were reported weekly.

Book publishers, movie distributors, TV producers, game developers, and newspaper publishers are just a few of the many businesses in the media and entertainment industry increasing their use of online services. Streaming services and the production of digital assets are the norm for media companies around the globe.

The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation is an organization that oversees the financial sector within the state. The department is split into four divisions: Securities, Banking, Captive Insurance, and Insurance. Any businesses involved in these companies must answer to this department, and many Vermont residents have supplied the department with information to help it carry out its everyday role.