Articles from our security researchers
Barracuda researchers recently spent several months analyzing spear-phishing attacks looking for new patterns and tactics. They share their findings in the new report Spear Phishing: Top Threats and Trends Vol. 5 - Best Practices to Defend Against Evolving Attacks.Continue reading
In mid-November, Barracuda researchers ran Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection in front of a test web application, and the number of bots they detected in just a few days was staggering, with millions of attacks coming in from thousands of distinct IP addresses.Continue reading
Enterprise mobile environments have increasingly expanded the remit of responsibility for security teams to manage. To add fuel to the fire, the shift to remote working this year has added many layers of complexity for these teams, seemingly overnight.Continue reading
Barracuda researchers found that educational institutions are more than twice as likely to be targeted by a business email compromise (BEC) attacks than an average organization.Continue reading
The cybercriminal organization behind the InterPlanetary Storm malware has released a new variant into the wild, now targeting Mac and Android devices in addition to Windows and Linux machines.Continue reading
Check out this detailed breakdown of a spear-phishing and credential harvesting attack stopped by Barracuda Sentinel.Continue reading
Cybercriminals are targeting government, healthcare, and education organizations with ransomware. Although ransomware has been around for more than two decades, the threat has been growing rapidly in recent years.Continue reading
Beware of cybercriminals who create accounts with legitimate email services and use them to launch impersonation and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.Continue reading