Everyone around the world is in a panic about COVID-19. Cybercriminals are worsening the situation. They are taking advantage of coronavirus to exploit and play on the fears of people across the world. Government agencies have been receiving thousands of...
Ransomware and phishing attacks conquered the US newspaper headlines last year. More than 70 state and local governments across the US and more than half of the organizations suffered from ransomware attacks. According to the bureau's Internet Core Competency Certification...
Till a few years back, ransomware attackers focused on "quantity" rather than "quality". We have seen several such incidents; one of the highest profiles among them was the WannaCry attack of 2017, which had hit a massive number of targets,...
"Coronavirus is officially declared as a pandemic" The entire world is now striving hard to defend the systemic threats posed by COVID-19, but two unseen groups of people are poised to capitalize on the crisis: Hackers and hand sanitizer vendors. ...
In the wake of Coronavirus, the entire world is being impacted and as a precautionary measure, most of the organizations have allowed their employees to work from home. Whilst It's critical for organizations to take precautionary measures the majority of the...
Although data breaches weren’t new for modern internet-dwellers, we rarely witnessed them in the case of larger companies. But, when entities like Yahoo announced breaches that affected billions of their user accounts in the past year, it became quite clear...
Data breaches are nothing new - continuing with their terrifying stories of 2019, the first quarter of 2020 has seen data leaks firmly taking their place in the news. While this included the prevalent phishing, malware, virus, and ransomware attacks,...
“Ooops, your files are encrypted! Don’t worry - you can restore them; all you need to do is send $500 to the following address....” The words that have been striking the fear in average computer users since the 1980s! Yes,...
Cyberattacks have been recognized as the most strategically significant threats faced by the world today. Governments, private corporations, non-profit organizations...no sector is immune from cyberattacks, and so is the financial industry, including banks, investment companies, insurance companies, and real estate...
From all our past articles, it is understandable that cyberattacks are taking a heavy toll on businesses. But there is one particular threat that is more often associated with notable financial losses, even business bankruptcy, than any other form of...