Akamai’s new study: Bots, phishing and server attacks making commerce a cybersecurity hotspot

The study shows attackers are using more bots and doing more sophisticated phishing exploits and server attacks, especially targeting retail. Image: Sashkin/Adobe Stock Attacks on commerce are booming, according to a new... Read more »

Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth

In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway. Image: Ar_TH /Adobe Stock Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report... Read more »

How business email compromise attacks emulate legitimate web services to lure clicks

New BEC cyberattacks use phishing with a legitimate Dropbox link as a lure for malware and credentials theft. Image: Adobe Stock. Threat actors have added a new wrinkle to traditional business email... Read more »

At RSA, Akamai put focus on fake sites, API vulnerabilities

Image: Ar_TH/Adobe Stock Last year, attacks using vulnerabilities in applications and application protocol interfaces reached record highs, according to security company Akamai in its new State of the Internet report. The firm... Read more »

BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware

A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by... Read more »

OneNote documents spread malware in several countries

A new phishing campaign abuses OneNote documents to infect computers with the infamous AsyncRAT malware, targeting users in the U.K., Canada and the U.S. Image: Sashkin/Adobe Stock As Microsoft decided to change... Read more »