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Threat Spotlight: Ransomware
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
Threat Spotlight: Malicious accounts in business email compromise
Beware of cybercriminals who create accounts with legitimate email services and use them to launch impersonation and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.Continue reading
Report: Insights into attacker activity in compromised email accounts
A specialized economy is emerging around email account takeover as cybercriminals find new ways to attack and exploit email accounts. Continue reading
Threat Spotlight: New cryptominer malware variant
A new variant of the cryptominer malware known as Golang is targeting both Windows and Linux machines.Continue reading
Report: Secure SD-WAN: The Launch Pad into Cloud
As more and more organizations make the move to the public cloud, security continues to be a significant roadblock. That’s why many organizations are turning to secure SD-WAN to protect their journey to the cloud.Continue reading
Threat Spotlight: Form-based attacks
A new type of brand impersonation attack is disproportionately using Google-branded sites to trick victims into sharing login credentials. Making up 4 percent of all spear phishing attacks in the first four months of 2020, Barracuda researchers have seen steady detections through the first part of the year. Researchers expect to see that number climb as cybercriminals have success harvesting credentials with these attacks.Continue reading
Threat Spotlight: Malicious use of reCaptcha
In the never-ending battle between cybersecurity and cybercrime, cybercriminals continue to find new techniques to evade detection. One such trick Barracuda researchers have started seeing more often in phishing campaigns uses reCaptcha walls to block URL scanning services from accessing the content of phishing pages.Continue reading