Illustration by Derrick Deepak Roy Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore phishing attacks and how they’ve evolved in recent times. Way back in the 1990s, or so the story goes, users unwilling to pay for access to the internet would hunt for others’ login credentials to keep browsing for free.
Since the beginning of 2022, the unfolding geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine has resulted in the discovery of new malware families and related cyberattacks. In January 2022, a new malware named WhisperGate was found corrupting disks and wiping files in Ukrainian organizations. In February 2022, another destructive malware was found in hundreds of computers in Ukraine, named HermeticWiper, along with IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard.
In the age of fake news and fake emails, fake Amazon emails are becoming a major problem. If you’re not careful, these fake messages will cause some serious problems for your company’s reputation.
Spambrella continues to monitor the situation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe closely. At this point, it appears that Russian cyberaggression remains regionally focused on Ukrainian government interests, critical infrastructure, and emergency response in the region.
Phishing remains a problem for everyone and any tool that helps is valuable. This post was prompted by the ongoing usage of our free Phish.ly service that we see every day, as people discover the tool and derive enormous benefit from it. If you want to evaluate a suspicious email right now, you need read no further. Just forward that email immediately to scan@phish.ly to get a response quickly from the service.
Organizations are under constant threat of cybercrime. While there are many available attack vectors, email is the most obvious path towards a full network compromise. The notion that email security should be prioritized is emphasized during this time where more and more businesses are still working in a remote or hybrid dynamic environment.
Many low-code applications are built for the purpose of moving data from one place to another usually as a result of some external trigger, such as the arrival of a new email message. In the case of an email-triggering low-code application, if low-code security best practices are not strictly followed, attackers may abuse the application to set rogue automated email forwarding rules, which can be used to steal data, impersonate as corporate users and mount phishing campaigns.
Step one of any automation Story is to get information into Tines. This can be done in several ways, including via a Webhook or polling for alerts. But in many cases, the starting point will be through email.
Proofpoint Essentials MSP services leverage the same enterprise-class security that powers some of the world’s largest and most security-conscious companies for SMBs. This visibility and security give them the protection for their greatest security risk—their people. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are targeted with the same attacks as large enterprises but they often lack the personnel and financial resources to purchase and operate security solutions aimed at large enterprises.
