Security Alert: Rising Threats to Business Email Accounts
Your business relies on emails every day – that’s exactly why scammers target them. But the threat to your business is getting bigger. As a business owner, ensuring the security of your company’s emails is critical. It’s one of the most effective ways to safeguard sensitive business data from falling into the wrong hands. Here’s what you need to know…
Think twice before answering that “support call” – it might be a ransomware scam
Would your employees give an unknown caller access to your business devices? Not likely. But what if they got a Teams chat from someone posing as Microsoft support? This is what’s happening in a new ransomware scam…
New phishing scam outsmarts businesses… here’s how to stay secure
Cybercriminals are targeting trusted platforms like SharePoint and OneDrive, tricking users into revealing login details and spreading malicious files. Don’t let your business fall victim! Educate your team, enable multi-factor authentication, and keep your security software up to date.
Cyber Extortion: What is it and What’s the Risk to Your Business?
Let’s talk about a topic that’s been dominating headlines and causing many sleepless nights: cyber extortion. It’s a form of cyber crime where criminals threaten to damage your business by compromising its data and digital assets unless a ransom is paid.
SubdoMailing Scam: Protect Your Business
Similar to typical phishing attacks, SubdoMailing is where cyber-criminals impersonate trusted brands. Here’s the twist: They identify subdomains of reputable companies that the brand no longer uses, but which still directs to an external domain that’s no longer registered. They use this to set up fraudulent websites and email addresses in order to target individuals in businesses just like yours.
The most common phishing theme? Finance.
Think of phishing as a wolf disguised in sheep’s clothing, masquerading as a legitimate message to deceive unsuspecting recipients. These emails often contain harmful links, attachments, or requests for sensitive information, all cleverly disguised as communication from a trusted source.
Cyberthreats 2024: Understand how the burglars can get in, so you know how to keep them out
The consequences of a successful cyber attack can be utterly catastrophic, both in terms of financial losses and damage to your business’s reputation. And the attacks take many different forms, all with increasing sophistication. But when you know what you’re up against, you can be prepared.
The business owner’s guide to data encryption
Data is the lifeblood of your business. It’s everything from customer profiles and financial transactions to confidential business plans and intellectual property. Realistically, your success and reputation hinge on how well you protect your data. This is where encryption comes into it. At its core, encryption is the process of converting your data into a scrambled, unreadable format, rendering your information useless to anyone without the decryption key.
Ransomware dilemma: To pay or not to pay?
In the face of cyber criminals providing more payment options for escaping ransomware attacks, our advice stands firm: paying only serves to empower criminal activities and offers no guarantee against future extortion, perpetuating a cycle of vulnerability and exploitation.
Think your business is safe from cyber threats? Think again!
Cybercriminals are targeting businesses of all sizes with something known as “botnets”. These consist of networks of compromised devices, all controlled by a single malicious operator. Devices can range from your computer to even your smart refrigerator.
