The bad guys are getting very creative, impersonating an executive in your organization and asking for financial reports or they ask employees in payroll to make changes to bank accounts. According to the FBI, their efforts have earned them an estimated $12 billion through Business Email Compromise also know as CEO...
Cyber criminals are reaping the benefits of business email compromise and CEO fraud scams, which is a $12 billion industry, according to the FBI by impersonating an executive in your organization, asking for financial reports or by asking payroll staff to make changes to bank accounts.
Invoice and payroll fraud,...
A large Midwestern health network says a successful phishing campaign exposed a raft of personal and medical data stored in its email systems. The count of affected victims numbers 1.4 million, although investigators believe stealing personal data was not the attackers' goal.
Known losses due to business email compromise have exceeded $12.5 billion worldwide, the FBI's Internet Complaint Center reports, adding that fraudsters are increasingly targeting the U.S. real estate sector with such scams.
Cyberattacks and damages due to email breaches dramatically increased again this past year. The FBI estimates $5 billion in losses worldwide as email continues to be a primary attack vector for the initial compromise, with business email compromise accounting for $676 million in losses alone in 2017.
As SMB...
Ransomware alone cost organizations an estimated $1 billion in 2016, up from $24 million in 2015 and there is no end in sight for 2017! Ransomware, business email compromise, and spearphishing are serious problems that can steal your data, intercept funds, and disable access to your organization's network.
This new...
As a security leader, you're faced with a tough choice. Even as you increase your budget for sophisticated security software, your exposure to cybercrime keeps going up! IT security seems to be a race between effective technology and clever attack methods. However, there's an often overlooked security layer that can...
The recent escalating ransomware attacks have shown that no organization is safe and the effects of those attacks can be devastating. By many reports, ransomware has been already responsible for causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, with no end in sight.
Find out how you can help to combat these attacks...
Ransomware is vicious malware that locks users out of their devices or blocks access to files until a sum of money or ransom is paid. Attacks cause downtime, data loss, possible intellectual property theft, and in certain industries an attack is considered a data breach. Phishing emails, compromised websites and free...
Ransomware is a multi-billion dollar business with the number of new ransomware variants continuing to grow quarter-over-quarter. Despite the many security offerings available, organizations continue to fall victim to ransomware attacks.
For this report, we surveyed businesses across all industries to find out what...
CEO fraud has ruined the careers of many executives and loyal employees. It is responsible for over $3 billion in losses and has victimized more than 22,000 organizations.
Don't be next. The CEO Fraud Prevention Manual provides a thorough overview of how executives are compromised, how to prevent such an attack...
A six-month coordinated global law enforcement effort to crack down on business email compromise schemes has resulted in 74 arrests, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
File-less malware is a huge security challenge for organizations today, and traditional email security controls aren't sufficient to meet the challenge. It's time for a new approach email security.
The big issue is: The malicious payloads shift so much. It's really easy to do 100 variants of the same malicious...
A consistent message throughout this Summit: Most threats to an organization continue to enter through the route of least resistance - email. In this session, hear directly from a CISO on why email security needs renewed focus and how he's addressed it in his own organization, including:
Why smart employees continue...
Late last year in Australia, cybercriminals began targeting a fertile yet relatively poorly protected business sector for so-called business email compromise scams: the real estate industry. One expert says the industry, highly dependent on email, is ill-prepared for the attacks.
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