The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding the recent CrowdStrike outage, warning that malicious actors are actively exploiting the situation to conduct phishing and…
KNOWN FACT: Malicious links are hosted on legitimate services like Google, Microsoft, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Wix, GoDaddy and many others, and these services are thought safe by many security…
With the rise of 270% rise in social engineering in 2021, humans are the most vulnerable cybersecurity entry points into an organization. By moving completely to the cloud, apps and…
Earlier this year, SlashNext debuted “Phish Stories,” a videocast and podcast series during which cybersecurity experts discuss new zero-hour phishing attacks before a live audience of CISOs, CSOs and cybersecurity professionals. In…
Email Account Takeover (ATO) attacks occur when a threat actor gains unauthorized access to an email account belonging to someone else. Cybercriminals obtain stolen user credentials through trade or purchase…
Weaponized documents are delivered via legitimate looking emails. PDFs, Excel or Word documents are attached to these emails and contain links to malware or phishing sites that compromise a system or network.
Looking back on 2018, there were some data breaches and phishing attack trends that should have security professionals gearing up for this year. The numbers point to increases in attacks and severity.
Osterman Research shared a number of ways that organizations and CISOs today can improve their cybersecurity in a recent SlashNext sponsored whitepaper and they are certainly worth sharing.
There are a number of reasons why phishing and cyberattacks are so successful, and Osterman Research identified 8 of them in a recent whitepaper. We added a very important reason to this list in our blog post here.
