A new survey from Pulse and Hitachi ID reveals that nearly half of all enterprise team members have been approached by cybercriminals to assist a ransomware attack.
From ransomware to re-branding, cybercrime rings use varying tactics to disrupt and extort organizations. How can your enterprise organization best prepare?
Financial institutions accelerated the implementation of online services during the pandemic, aiming to simplify customers’ access to their bank accounts. Unfortunately, they also simplified cybercriminals’ attack vectors. Financial institutions can employ a series of cybersecurity tools to mitigate the increased risk of cyber fraud.
Within a diversified cybersecurity strategy, digital forensic analysis can ensure that organizations have the means to react in a timely manner and, more importantly, recover from a cyberattack.
Sift released its Q4 2020 Digital Trust & Safety Index: Holiday Fraud and the Shifting State of E-commerce, which revealed that fraudsters are executing larger and more targeted attacks this holiday season. Derived from Sift’s global network of over 34,000 sites and apps, the Index found the average attempted fraudulent purchase value rose to over $700 from October through November 2020, a 70% year-over-year increase during the same period in 2019.
The Phishers' Favorites report for Q4 2019 says that PayPal remains the top brand impersonated by cybercriminals for the second quarter in a row, with Facebook taking the #2 spot and Microsoft coming in third.