Are you prepared to protect against these 8 key threats?

The Barracuda Blog covers a lot of different topics, but for obvious reasons our primary focus is on new, trending and evolving cyberthreats. As part of Barracuda’s core mission to deliver a highly effective security platform, we constantly gather, synthesize and analyze real-time threat intelligence from around the world. 

And what we discover in that process doesn’t only go to our dev teams to drive updates to our products. We also use this space (and others) to share what we’ve learned with the general public — with you, that is — in order to help everyone stay informed about the latest threats and how to combat them. 

Key threat info — all in one place

A new e-book, “8 key threats to protect against now,” gathers up the most important information from the past year’s blog posts, including our special Threat Spotlight articles. 

Get your copy now. It will help you ensure you’re making smart, targeted investments in cybersecurity that addresses the most significant cyber risks. And it sure beats going back and reading dozens of past posts (though you’re of course welcome to do that too). 

The e-book is divided into three sections, reflecting three areas of focus that we try to cover in this space:

• “Analyzing threat trends” provides high-level insights based on data that we’ve collected about major trends. In this section you’ll find out about what’s been going on with ransomware (a major entry based on multiple articles); how malicious bots are being made harder to detect thanks to more human-like behavior; and how the size of a company affects its likelihood of being targeted by different types of attacks, along with the likelihood of those attacks succeeding.

• “Detailed analysis of evolving attacks” gets more granular. In this section we look at how sextortion scams are evolving to be more effective; how one trend saw phishing crooks impersonating Open AI to trick victims; and how new, advanced infostealer malware is used to find and exfiltrate a broad range of data and file types.

• “New and trending techniques” is where we cover the very newest threat types that we saw emerge, including the growing use of QR code attacks that direct victims to malicious sites or install malware directly; and how a new phishing technique uses text-based QR codes to conceal specially crafted URLs.

How to fight back

The e-book includes a lot of information about how to effectively combat these new and emerging threats. And the concluding section provides a comprehensive list of the components you need to implement a robust security posture that covers your entire attack surface.

So, if you want to go back and read every article my colleagues and I have posted here in the past year, don’t let me stop you. But if you want to efficiently and quickly get up to speed on the key threat trends that are most important in today’s landscape, download this info-packed e-book right now.