Financial fraud continues to be an easy means for criminals to make money from unsuspecting targets. As attacks continue to grow in volume, it is important that you are able to recognize the warning signs.

The new year brings new and more sophisticated threats to prepare for. Advancements in technology and changes in the economic climate have provided ample opportunities for cybercriminals to fill their pockets. Keep reading to learn about our predictions for cybersecurity trends you’ll see this year.

To help keep you cyber safe this holiday season, we’ve compiled some of the top holiday scams to look out for with recommendations on how to guard against them.

One of the newer forms of attack leverages Phishing-as-a-Service to steal credentials and take control of your accounts. Keep reading to learn more about this form of phishing and how to keep yourself safe.

In this blog, we’ll go over scams cybercriminals have crafted using ChatGPT and provide best practices on how to protect yourself and stay cyber safe online.

With so many competing headlines proclaiming AI as humanity’s next great technology savior while others prophesize it will be our doom, it can be hard to get a sense for where we’re at.

Here’s what we know.

Phishing is not about tricking employees into falling for your latest phishing simulation. Instead, phishing should be viewed as an opportunity to educate and prepare your employees to catch and report suspected phish. In this blog we’ll cover when employees are most susceptible to falling for phishing attacks and the 5 Rs of phishing to better ensure your phishing security awareness program will prepare employees to be your best first line of defense against cyber risk.

Your security awareness program can’t be based on just consequence or rewards – it needs to incorporate both. Understanding how to implement both consequences and rewards into your program can feel like a bit of a balancing act, so we’ve broken down how both work and can be easily incorporated into your existing security awareness program.

Whether you’re just getting started and don’t have a security awareness program in place, or you’re looking to build on to an existing program, for cybersecurity awareness month this year we’re bringing it back to the basics and covering the fundamentals of a security awareness program.

The loosening of pandemic related restrictions such as social distancing means that the occasional after work get together with colleagues is now back in order, and folks that haven’t seen each other in a long time are eager to celebrate. Employees who work with sensitive data are entrusted to keep that data safe and have a responsibility to safeguard that information. But what happens when they are invited out after work?

Whether the ideal work environment is at a café, a library, a local park or your kitchen table, there are easy ways to protect the privacy of your work and allow you the flexibility to work from almost anywhere. So, what can your organization do to promote cyber best practices for hybrid and remote workers?

Enabling two-factor authentication or multi-factor authentication is an excellent way to add that extra layer of protection to work or personal accounts. In this blog, you’ll learn about the different forms of authentication and why enabling either two-factor authentication or multi-factor authentication is considered a cybersecurity best practice.

Welcome back to Part 5 of the Cyber True Crime series The Affiliate. In past blogs, we covered the history of NetWalker, how a RaaS ransomware gang functions, how Sebastien Vachon Desjardins, or the Affiliate, attempted to hide his criminal activity through international servers and in our last blog the organizations he targeted in his attacks. In this installment, we’ll begin to unravel how the FBI began tracking the Affiliate down through the international servers and his multiple email addresses.

Welcome back to Part 4 of the cyber true crime series: The Affiliate. In this installment, we’ll cover the organizations that the Affiliate targeted over the span of a few weeks.

Welcome back to Part 3 of the cyber true crime series The Affiliate. In Parts 1 and 2 we went over how a ransomware gang typically operates, how an organization finds out they have been the target of a NetWalker ransomware attack and how one becomes involved in the criminal organization. In this installment, you’ll learn how an international server works and how the Affiliate used them.

It’s a common belief that cybercriminals target large businesses for data breaches; however, the truth is that in 2021, small and medium businesses (SMBs) were the biggest and most easily accessible targets for data breaches. Sontiq’s Mid-Year 2021 report concluded that 69% of all data breaches for this year so far have been to small businesses.