Watch this 45-minute webinar and listen to the conversation where we delve into current threat trends and provide real-world examples of these attacks, enabling you to better prepare for and safeguard your most valuable assets: your data and your people.
A U.S. federal judge sentenced a Nigerian national to four years in prison for running several cyber-enabled schemes aimed at defrauding U.S. citizens out of more than $1 million. The men were arrested four years ago and extradited to Arizona in 2022 from Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
Stung by the FBI's infiltration and takedown of the Hive ransomware group, other ransomware operators have been retooling their approaches to make their attacks more effective and operations tougher to disrupt, says Yelisey Bohuslavskiy, chief research officer at threat intelligence firm Red Sense.
Cybercriminals have been launching attacks against our people, networks, and services for decades with varying success. So, the need to realign our defences to meet the demands of evolving threats is nothing new.
CISOs have faced a broad and varied set of challenges in recent years. Remote environments, increasingly sophisticated threats and expanding supply chains are just some of the many concerns keeping them up at night.
Great eXpeltations is Expel’s annual report sharing the most significant data from our security operations center (SOC) in our threat detection and response efforts. It curates that data into trends that can impact your cybersecurity posture and offers resilience recommendations to protect your organisation and what...
A leader of an international crime network that attempted to launder more than $25 million in fraudulently obtained funds, including through business email compromise, received a sentence of more than a decade in prison. Valentine Iro, 34, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
Business email compromise (BEC), also known as email fraud, is one of cybersecurity’s costliest and least understood threats. As BEC schemes have evolved, industry nomenclature has outlived its usefulness. Without a framework to describe and break down BEC attacks—let alone conceptualize them—researching and...
The latest IBM Cost of a Data Breach report highlighted that 19% of total data breaches are due to compromised and stolen credentials, resulting in $4.5 million in losses, and 40% of ransomware attacks start through email. So how do you protect this vital communications channel?
Security leaders have many options...
A joint law enforcement operation led to the dismantling of what authorities describe as a Franco-Israeli "large-scale CEO fraud" criminal network that stole millions from French victims and laundered the proceeds via banks in China and Israel. The group's single biggest attack netted $40 million.
Cybercriminals exploited the verification process for Microsoft-certified authentication apps to obtain access to the inboxes of financial and marketing companies. Among the permissions threat actors sought were access to emails and calendars, says cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.
Expel has released its latest quarterly threat report, which looks at continued identity-based attacks and the impact of MFA fatigue. Jon Hencinski shares insights on attack trends, gaps in compensating controls and what to look for in pre-ransomware activity.
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