The country where emails originate and the number of countries they are routed through on the way to their final destination offer important warning signs of phishing attacks.Continue reading
Threat Spotlight
A monthly feature highlighting a significant threat
Threat Spotlight: Vaccine-related phishing
Beware of phishing campaigns that use the COVID-19 vaccination as a hook. In the same way they’ve capitalized on the global pandemic with coronavirus-related phishing attacks, cybercriminals are now trying to leverage the vaccine to steal money and personal information.Continue reading
e-book: Threat Spotlight: Protecting your business in 2021
Beware of rapidly-emerging cybersecurity threats. Cybercriminals are morphing their attack techniques, using a range of new tactics to try to increase their success.Continue reading
Threat Spotlight: Automated attacks on web applications
Cybercrime has become big business, and scammers are increasingly turning to bots and automation to make their attacks more efficient and effective and help them avoid detection.Continue reading
Threat Spotlight: When bad bots attack
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
Threat Spotlight: Spear-phishing attacks targeting education sector
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
Threat Spotlight: New InterPlanetary Storm variant targeting IoT devices
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
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