Whaling Attacks on the Finance Industry? Yes You Are Reading Right.

Whaling attacks also known as CEO frauds, are washing over the finance industry, causing severe and seemingly insurmountable damage. Experts estimate that the finance industry suffered a $12 billion loss over the past few years, making it a vertical that’s attacked 300 times more than others. In some cases, financial organizations stated that whaling fraud […]

Law & Order: Why Legal and Cybersecurity Teams Go Together

The battle to protect against online phishing scams has two fronts. The first front is the employee-facing phishing attacks used to gain access to your internal networks; the second front is customer-facing phishing attacks which leads to revenue loss. Cybersecurity and Legal teams often find themselves competing over the same budgets to protect the organization […]

Counterfeiters Are Stealing Christmas But It’s Not Too Late to Save It

When they sing that “you better watch out’’, they don’t mean Santa’s ‘Naughty or Nice’ list. If only it were that innocent. It’s a well known fact that counterfeiters love the holiday season and they like to celebrate it in their own malicious way. That’s why we make it a holiday tradition to warn online […]

Workplace Safety: Why Employees Play a Key Role in Phishing Prevention

Company employees have always been at the center of phishing attacks. As millions of people transition to Work From Home (WFH), their role as phishing enablers grows even bigger. Recent research found that 37% of WFH employees report an increase in phishing attempts, and the numbers are likely to be much higher if we take […]

Follow the Money: Financial Services Are A Target for Phishing Scams

Scammers are focused on monetary gain, which leads to phishing attacks targeting companies that provide financial services. A few months ago, mobile phishing campaigns targeted customers of a long line of banks, including HSBC, CIBC, Chase, and Scotiabank. Lloyds Bank customers were also the target of a recent email and SMS phishing attack. In addition […]

The Fight Against Corporate Social Media Engineering And Fraud

Our main online hangouts are also the focal point for hackers looking to take advantage of any vulnerabilities. That is true for social media, one of the main online activities which is expected to reach 3.6 billion users this year. Recent events like the hacking of 130 executive Twitter accounts prove their attraction. The main […]

BrandShield 2020: Where next?

In 2011, we wrote a paper discussing a major problem: We noticed that brands struggle with assigning who’s responsible for brand protection to the right department within the organization.

Winning Back Your Business with Anti-Phishing Solutions

Over the past few years, phishing attacks have become more versatile, sophisticated, and dangerous. In order to win the battle against these fraudsters, the anti-phishing solutions we choose must follow the same logic and offer a variety of approaches that address every vulnerability. Jurgen Sorton, Head of MIT at Vox Telecom, was right in saying […]