Although there is no way to stop receiving all spam calls, there are steps you can take to reduce the number of spam calls you receive. According to Truecaller’s 2024 report, Americans collectively receive an average of 2.5 billion spam and unwanted calls every month. While spam calls do not always have malicious intent, like hacking your phone or stealing your money, they can grow annoying since they are unwanted and persistent.

When it comes to hiding dirty money, it’s not just cryptocurrency we have to worry about, according to author, speaker, and investigative journalist Geoff White.

In this version of the Hacker’s Playbook Threat Coverage round-up, we are highlighting attack coverage for several new threats, including those discovered via original research by the SafeBreach Labs team. SafeBreach customers can select and run these attacks and more from the SafeBreach Hacker’s Playbook to ensure coverage against these advanced threats. Additional details about the threats and our coverage can be seen below.

In July 2024, Netskope Threat Labs tracked a 2,000-fold increase in traffic to phishing pages delivered through Microsoft Sway. The majority of the credential grabbing pages investigated used “Quishing,” a form of phishing that uses QR code to trick users into accessing a malicious website. The phishing campaigns targeted MS Office credentials, using documents to bait users into logging in.

Physical and network barriers that once separated corporate environments from the outside world no longer exist. In this new technological age defined by hybrid, multi-cloud and SaaS, identities are the perimeter. Any one identity—workforce, IT, developer or machine—can become an attack path to an organization’s most valuable assets.

In an economy where securing data can mean the difference between success and failure, implementing proven data exfiltration prevention strategies is more critical than ever. According to a study conducted by IBM, a data breach can cost global organizations an average of nearly $5 million per incident. In addition to the financial ramifications, data theft can lead to lower customer trust, a loss of future revenue, and even potential lawsuits.

Software Security is the field mainly concerned with protecting software applications and systems against different threats or risks or the process of defending software applications or systems against various threats, risks, or attacks. It includes the various initiatives, methods, and safeguards to protect the software and data it processes from unauthorized access, alteration, or denial.

The momentous rise of AI continues, and more and more customers are demanding concrete results from these early implementations. The time has come for tech companies to prove what AI can do beyond adding conversational chat agents to website sidebars. Fortunately, it’s easy to see how cloud data protection has already benefited from advancements in AI and ML. Headline-grabbing large-language models are also making protecting data in the cloud easier to manage across organizations. ‍

Supply chain resilience has never been more critical. Recent cyber outages have underscored a harsh reality—supply chains are vulnerable, and disruptions can have far-reaching impacts. But what does it mean to be supply chain resilient, especially in the context of cyber threats? In this post, we will explore lessons learned from recent cyber outages, offering actionable insights for enhancing supply chain resilience.