Avanan has released a new infographic showing why email is the weakest link in cybersecurity. According to the report, 1 out of every 99 emails people receive at work is actually a phishing message. Moreover, phishing messages account for one in every 25 branded emails, with the most impersonated brands

A new report by LastLine shows that cyber risk may be highest during the summer months, with 30.5% of respondents indicating they see more cyber threats during the summer compared to the rest of the year. However, 47.1% said they did not notice seasonal attack trends. As to the specific

A new survey by Databarracks identifies hardware failure as the most common cause of data loss, ahead of human error and cyberattacks. However, cyberattacks are increasingly associated with data loss compared to previous reports, while the opposite trend is true for hardware failure and human error. In fact, the report

Trend Micro researchers recently detected 17,490 new samples of Anubis, a powerful banking Trojan. The malware is being distributed via phishing campaigns and is capable of targeting 188 legitimate banking and financial mobile applications that are used in the US, India, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, and Poland. Anubis is often

A new Wandera report looks at the mobile threats targeting financial services firms. It shows that phishing accounts for the majority (57%) of attacks, which is significantly higher than the average across other industries (42%). Man-in-the-middle attacks are also more common in the financial services sector (36%) than in other

Last month, cybercriminals managed to steal over $800,000 from the City of Griffin, Georgia by targeting the city’s finance department with a textbook Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam. The threat actors sent a fraudulent email to a city employee in which they posed as a city vendor and requested the

Outdated voting machines that are vulnerable to hacking are hardly the only cybersecurity concern for US election security officials. Earlier this week, the US Department of Homeland Security warned election officials across the country about the threat of phishing campaigns. Threat actors are targeting election officials with seemingly legitimate emails

The notorious cybercriminal group TA505 has fundamentally changed its tactics in recent campaigns, Proofpoint recently discovered. While TA505 is known for distributing Trojans, information stealers, ransomware and other malware in large-scale campaigns, it has now shifted toward more targeted phishing attacks. The hacking group also began using a new malware

A new Sectigo report rates the data protection practices of the largest banks in North America and Europe. While the research found that all major banks use SSL certificates in some form, 40% of the North American banks leave customers vulnerable to phishing scams because they do not extended validation

Security researchers with Wandera recently discovered that a seemingly legitimate Android mobile game available on Google Play actually targeted users with adware, and phishing attacks aimed at stealing Google account credentials. The game, called Scary Granny, was downloaded by 50,000 users before Google was informed about is malicious nature by