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The coronavirus pandemic created new challenges for businesses as they adapt to an operating model in which working from home has become the ‘new normal. In addition, threat actors constantly change their strategies, tools, and techniques. When their attacks become less effective, they look for new weaknesses to expose and move to.

A few weeks ago, we reported how the new wave of phishing that uses new variants of COVID-19 as bait had hit the education sector hard. Many students at universities and colleges across the United States were victims of phishing attacks via emails pretending to be from administrators at their institutions.

Nowadays, there is a wide range of solutions on the market that claim to safeguard the security of corporate computers and networks. Benefits such as protection against sophisticated malware attacks, good performance when running processes, usability or quality technical support should be the norm, but this is not always the case.

We are honored to share that WatchGuard has been recognized with six awards in the 2022 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards! WatchGuard received the Top Rated award for Network Security with WatchGuard Firebox (2 awards), WatchGuard EDPR / Adaptive Defense 360 (1 award) and AuthPoint (3 awards). For the first time since it was added to the WatchGuard portfolio, our Endpoint solutions have received the Top Rated award in the XDR category.

Multi-factor authentication prompt bombing is the strongest proof that not all MFA solutions are secure. This social engineering technique has been generating a lot of interest in recent weeks as cybercriminal groups have deployed it successfully as in the case of the Lapsus$ attacks.