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Fishy Business: What Are Spear Phishing, Whaling and Barrel Phishing?
For threat actors, phishing embodies the holy trinity of goals: easy, effective and profitable. It’s no wonder that the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reports that phishing was the top…
6 Ways SASE Helps Protect Your Data
You start to log in to work from the home office you’ve occupied for the last two years only to sit and wait patiently as your virtual private network (VPN)…
Why Phishing Is Still the Top Attack Method
Attackers are known to pore over a company’s website and social channels. Perhaps they spot a mention of an upcoming charity event. Who runs the charity? What does their email…
Why Phishing Is Still the Top Attack Method
Attackers are known to pore over a company’s website and social channels. Perhaps they spot a mention of an upcoming charity event. Who runs the charity? What does their email…
What Are the Biggest Phishing Trends Today?
According to the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, phishing was the most common way that cyber criminals got inside an organization. Typically, they do so to launch a much larger…
Hive0117 Continues Fileless Malware Delivery in Eastern Europe
Through continued research into the ongoing cyber activity throughout Eastern Europe, IBM Security X-Force identified a phishing email campaign by Hive0117, likely a financially motivated cybercriminal group, from February 2022,…
Ransomware Resilience Tops Findings in X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2022
For the third year in a row, ransomware was the top attack type globally in 2021, despite some successes last year by law enforcement to take down ransomware groups. This…
One-Time Password Security Might Fail 80% of the Time. IAM is Better
A one-time password (OTP) is an automatically generated sequence of characters that authenticates a user for a single transaction or login session. OTP is a widely popular security strategy, but…
Understanding the Cyber Risk Exposures Within the Health Care Industry
The health care industry is one of the most popular and lucrative targets for cyberattacks and malicious activity. Health care organizations always present as an attractive proposition to hackers as…