Insights on Data Security & Threat Intelligence
This year’s Infosecurity Europe again made me realise that I am privileged to work in such an exciting industry. As always, there was a lot of hype to cut through, but once you did, there were great insights to be found. Here are my top three takeaways from walking the
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Digmine Campaign Redux Back in 2017, we wrote a blog about a malware spreading on Facebook, which, it turns out, continues to be relevant today—referring to both the blog and the malware. At the time we had set ourselves the task of analyzing part of the 2017 Digmine campaign that
With busy schedules, a need for instant delivery, and desire to leave a trail for tracking, it’s not surprising that a Gartner study revealed nearly 60% of the average business’ critical data is stored in e-mail. Internal communication and client exchanges are saved somewhere in the mass of personal content and overlooked
Stories about real estate hacking and particularly phishing have appeared with increasing frequency in newspaper and blog headlines. Stories like the cybercriminals who stole client contact information from a DC-area real estate company, and with the information then created a “business email compromise” (BEC) scam, which resulted in $1.5 million
Recently, a lot of phishing campaigns have been moving the embedded links from the body of an email into an attachment, to increase the odds of evading detection. We theorize this is a kind of “social engineering” ploy to move the user along quickly and get them into a clicking
While Microsoft® Office 365™ offers great benefits for organizations moving their email to the cloud, Office 365 email archiving provides neither the functionality nor the security that most IT and Legal departments require. Redundancy is an issue – Office 365 email archiving stores multiple copies of messages, but they reside
In 2014, the Emotet malware started as a banking Trojan targeting European bank customers. Back then, nobody expected this malware would evolve into one of the most dangerous botnets in the world. We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the Emotet malware and its eponymous botnet, as its versatility
2014 begann die Emotet-Malware als Bank-Trojaner, der europäische Bankkunden ins Visier nahm. Damals erwartete niemand, dass sich diese Malware zu einem der gefährlichsten Botnets weltweit entwickeln würde. Uns haben viele Fragen zur Emotet-Malware und dem gleichnamigen Botnet erreicht. Seine Vielseitigkeit hat dazu geführt, dass es weit verbreitet ist (eine Analyse
