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Watch Your ZIP: Using this Device to Bypass Email Gateways
Recently, it was detected by the cybersecurity community that ZIP files were being used to bypass secure email gateways and infect victims with malware discreetly located in such containers. The phishing campaign in question had the goal to distribute the NanoCore RAT...
Business Email Compromise and Your Suppliers: What You Need to Know
Cybersecurity isn’t unidimensional. This is one of the many reasons why it such a challenge nowadays, with many moving parts that require our attention. A good example of this is business email compromise (BEC) and the ways that this kind of attack has to inflict...
Tips to Upgrade Your Defenses Against Ransomware
Ransomware represents one of the biggest cybersecurity threats for businesses in modern times. Cybercriminals are leveraging their capabilities to effectively “kidnap” the victims’ hardware and the data it contains, threatening to destroy it. This situation...
Financial Firms and Their Top Cybersecurity Threats
According to a report by Carbon Black, a cloud-based cybersecurity company that is now part of VMware, 70 percent of financial firms have been involved in some type of cybersecurity incident or attack in the past 12 months. What's worse: many of the firms that belong...
Normalizing the Bad: Americans’ Perception of Privacy
Cybersecurity and privacy breaches have become some of the hottest topics in our society. Technology and the Internet are always present in our lives, being channels of communication for some of our most private and sensitive information. The vast majority of Internet...
Being Ahead: How to Protect Your Business from Future Threats
The cybersecurity landscape moves too fast, making increasingly difficult for companies to keep up with the vast array of luring threats. Businesses need to be very resourceful and proactive to remain safe and protect their assets. The future holds uncertainty...
Social Engineering Attacks: The Right Approach for Businesses
On this blog, we have talked several times about social engineering attacks and their relevance in the current business panorama. While based on human psychology and deception, these attacks continue to have a deep, devasting impact in our economy, driving crises for...
What is the Ryuk Ransomware? Deadly Malware on the Run
Since August 2018, the Ryuk ransomware has been causing serious challenges in the cybersecurity and corporate worlds. GRIM SPIDER, the criminal organization that’s probably behind this malicious device, has its focus on large businesses, demanding considerable ransoms...
Cloud Misconfiguration: How to Face a Strangely-Common Threat
Most people see data breaches in the corporate world as the provider’s fault. Amazon, Microsoft, and other well-known players are the usual suspects every time there is a serious problem regarding cloud storage. At the same time, the customer is portrayed as a victim....
Cybercriminals and Innovation: How Our Enemies Are Evolving
Cybercriminals are highly-skilled individuals who use their knowledge in programming to beat security barriers and steal sensitive data from people and organizations. They have been present since the dawn of the Internet, as a recurrent challenge for both users and...
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