( 3 min read ) Between August 2020 and July 2021, there has been a 64% increase in ransomware attacks. Cybersecurity researchers analysed 121 ransomware incidents in this window period and determined a 64% year on year increase. Trends and findings Were these augmented attacks carried by newer gangs of cyber criminals? They weren’t. All of the analysed ransomware attacks […]
( 2 min read ) A popular web hosting provider and domain registrar, GoDaddy, recently fell prey to a serious data breach which led to the data of 1.2 million GoDaddy Customers being exposed. It was around November of this year that the GoDaddy data breach was discovered. A Brief on the GoDaddy Data Breach Chief Information Security Officer, Demetrius […]
( 2 min read ) It is time you should probably review the safety of your Office 365 credentials. Recently, Microsoft Teams was targeted for a phishing attack. As many as 50,000 Office 365 users are vulnerable. As we see a rise in work from home culture, the use of Microsoft Teams for remote working collaboration has increased. Read further […]
( 6 min read ) Why worry about Email Security? Email is the entry point for a maximum number of cyber threats. An email attack happens when a malicious actor targets your email id with an intention to gain information, illegal system access, or direct money through funneling. We are still just halfway through the year and the monetary losses […]
( 2 min read ) Dodgy Invoices On The Rise Yet another case of a dodgy invoice causing massive monetary losses has come to light. The perpetrators combined email spoofing and a fraudulent invoice to dupe a Mumbai-based company out of INR1.6 Crore. It was not a human error which got the company in this fix, but a lack of proper gatekeeping […]
( 3 min read ) Work from Home may have become tiresome; but don’t let your guard down just yet India embarks upon a new phase of the pandemic as it starts Unlock 1.0. However, companies are not yet comfortable calling their employees to work from the office just yet. It is both economical and safe for employees to be […]
( 3 min read ) Don’t Trust Those Emails from Your Phone Providers In this age of ransomware and Emotet botnets, old-fashioned spear phishing attempts seemed to have faded into the background. But it has come into the news again. This time, it is targeting company executives with fake phone provider emails. If you’re a decision maker at your organization, […]
( 2 min read ) An article shared by Mr. Nandkumar Saravade, CEO, ReBIT in Cyber Pulse Newsletter brings up the development in the cybersecurity and the key insights related to it. The newsletter by Nandkumar Saravade states – Dear Friends, Lockdown imposed in India and other countries, to control the spread of COVID-19 virus infections, has compelled us to work […]
( 3 min read ) Curb your instincts; don’t open emails just because they claim to contain news about the Coronavirus pandemic. We have already demonstrated in an earlier blog how empty of basic decency cybercriminals are. For them, pandemics and worldwide traumas are nothing more than fodder for sustaining their ill-intentioned campaigns. However, the purpose of this blog is […]
( 3 min read ) Cybercriminals exploit the mass epidemic of COVID-19 Times are tough all over the world. The wide outspread of the Coronavirus is keeping us all in sweats (no pun intended) and on the edge of our seats. With new preventive guidelines spilling out each day, the masses are tensed, and it is possible that we forget […]
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