Email Phishing is a Real Nightmare for Businesses
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by Amy McNeal
6M ago
See why phishing is especially dangerous right now As Halloween approaches and the spooky season casts its eerie shadow, it’s the perfect time to explore one of the most terrifying specters lurking in the digital world: email phishing. While the ghosts and ghouls of Halloween may be fictional, the horrors of email phishing are all too real, and they should send shivers down the spine of any business. Phishing is the most common form of cybercrime, with an estimated 3.4 billion malicious emails sent every day.  Learn more about the 5 most damaging email-based cyberattacks businesses face ..read more
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Dangerous AI-Driven Phishing Attacks Are Headed to an Inbox Near You
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by Amy McNeal
7M ago
AI is a highly beneficial tool in cybersecurity, enabling IT teams to do more with less, making it easier to spot and stop phishing attacks, and eliminating tedium. However, AI isn’t just being used as a defensive tool. Bad actors are increasingly using AI to facilitate cybercrime, and they’re having plenty of success. Every IT professional needs to be aware of the rise in AI-enabled cyberattacks and how it can impact their users and their defenses.  Get this infographic to see how AI enables Graphus to protect businesses from phishing. DOWNLOAD IT>> AI-enabled cyberattacks have ..read more
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Why Is Cyber Insurance So Hard to Get and What to Do About It?
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by Amy McNeal
8M ago
Today, organizations of all sizes find that obtaining and maintaining cyber liability coverage has become increasingly costly, complex and confusing. Premiums skyrocketed by over 50% in 2022, following 73% premium growth in the prior year. Moreover, experts predict a 25 to 100% increase in cyber insurance premiums in 2023. At the same time, the policy coverage limits are shrinking while the incident recovery costs continue to grow. Get this infographic to see how AI enables Graphus to protect businesses from phishing. DOWNLOAD IT>> Obtaining cyber insurance can be ..read more
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What to Do if You Respond to a Phishing Email
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
Let’s face it! The days of old-fashioned phishing attacks are past us. Tech-savvy con artists today use some of the most sophisticated methods and deceiving social engineering tricks to lure their targets. Despite organizations putting in extra effort to keep phishing attacks at bay, phishers sometimes succeed in baiting users into making judgment errors or divulging important information.  If you fall prey to a phishing email, hackers can misuse your user credentials, steal your money, open credit card and bank accounts in your name, abuse your Social Security number or sell your private ..read more
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The Pitfalls of Being Ransomware Complacent
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
Ransomware is one of the most potent and devastating weapons in a cyber criminal’s arsenal. In recent years, threat actors have used a variety of clever methods to launch ransomware attacks on organizations. While the attack methods have evolved drastically, one thing has remained constant: All businesses are vulnerable to ransomware threats, whether it’s a Fortune 500 company or a small family-owned business. A successful ransomware attack leads to severe consequences for every organization. Read on for insights into the devastating effects of ransomware attacks. See the benefits & barr ..read more
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The History of Phishing
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
Phishing attacks have recently hit alarming levels, with one million in a single quarter recorded for the first time in 2022. Today, almost 91% of cyberattacks start with phishing emails, and the situation is expected to worsen. Anyone using email, text messaging and other digital communication methods is a potential target of phishing attacks. While phishing attacks have proliferated in recent years, it is not a modern phenomenon. Criminals have used phishing techniques to trap their targets for decades. Read on to learn all about the origins, history and evolution of phishing. Are you ..read more
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One in Three Employees Will Fall for Phishing
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
The actions that employees take every day have an enormous impact on the security of a company’s IT environment. Human error is responsible for an estimated 90% of security breaches according to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. However, employees are people and people make mistakes, like falling for a phishing email or mishandling data. Those mistakes can cost their employers a fortune and open businesses up to ransomware, business email compromise and other expensive, dangerous cyberattacks. Unfortunately, new research shows that one in three employees ma ..read more
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Here Are the 10 Brands Cybercriminals Imitate the Most (and How to Spot It)
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
Cybercriminals are all about tricking people into interacting with phishing messages by disguising those messages as something harmless or even desirable. That makes brand fraud or brand impersonation a big deal for businesses. Employees encounter this threat frequently – 25% of all branded emails that companies receive are spoofed or brand impersonation attempts. Brand impersonation isn’t a style of phishing that changes a great deal in substance from scam to scam, but the brands that cybercriminals enjoy impersonating do and there have been some changes on the l ..read more
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One Smart Move Will Increase Your Chance of Surviving a Cyberattack
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
Is your business prepared to survive a cyberattack? Most businesses aren’t. An estimated 60% of businesses that fall victim to a successful cyberattack go out of business within 6 months. They’re not all going out of business because of the upfront cost of a cyberattack either. A combination of factors drives that end including long-term financial complications, loss of business and reputation damage. But that doesn’t have to be the outcome of a cyberattack. Companies with high cyber resilience are less likely to join those ranks and more likely to come out of a cybersecurity inciden ..read more
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How AI & Security Automation Can Improve a Company’s Cyber Resilience
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by Amy McNeal
1y ago
In today’s rapidly evolving, tumultuous threat landscape It is essential that companies make sensible choices that strengthen their organization’s ability to survive a damaging cybersecurity incident by increasing their cyber resilience. An estimated 60% of businesses that fall victim to a successful cyberattack go out of business within 6 months. But companies that employ AI and security automation benefit from a high cyber resilience, giving them a better chance of survival.  Learn how incident response planning boosts cyber resilience & security. GET THE EBOOK&g ..read more
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