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Cybercriminals Adopt COVID-19 Themes to Gain Access to Home and Office Networks

Balough June 13, 2020 0

(June 13, 2020) Cybercriminals are following workers to their homes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic to gain access to employer’s networks using COVID-19 themed phishing campaigns. Cyberattacks “in the COVID-19 era are focused on stealing your information and using remote employees as doorways into more valuable networks,” reports Malwarebytes Labs in a new […]

Phishing Campaigns Snare Victims Quickly, Data Breach Report Finds

Balough April 17, 2015 0

Phishing is reeling in more victims than in previous years, a new report found. In 2014, 23 percent of phishing email recipients open up the message, up from earlier yearly averages of 10 to 20 percent. In addition, 11 percent of the recipients click on the attachments, the 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report conducted by […]