By Alexandre François Every year, email phishing is the cause of many data breaches and massive financial losses, affecting businesses of all sizes. In fact, it is the most prevalent form of cyberfraud against SMBs—cybercriminals often look at SMBs as easy targets, expecting that these companies lack both the tech stack and expertise to detect […]
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Are you sure that email from FedEx is actually from FedEx? A major problem for small businesses is recognizing phishing emails. Oftentimes, hackers trick employees into clicking malware infected zip files and malicious links in emails that redirect to fake landing pages. This type of cybercrime involving sending fraudulent emails that appear to come from
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Netflix, Google, Facebook—not even the biggest companies are safe from attempted phishers. At its simplest, phishing is an attempt to get sensitive personal information like passwords and account info for malicious purposes. The attacker poses as a trustworthy person or organization known to the victim—the more well-known and respected, the better—in order to obtain information.
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Hackers are always coming up with new sophisticated phishing schemes to steal any personal information they can. Hackers want to gain access to your email because so much of valuable personal information can be found there. Case in point: Earlier this month, there was a pretty serious phishing attack that targeted Gmail users. As NBC News reported: The
Google has fittingly chosen October to make several security-related announcements. Dubbed as the Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the search giant announced that it will introduce a host of security enhancements to Chrome and Gmail for a more secure online browsing. For instance, Google has improved Chrome’s Safe Browsing Technology to prevent unsuspecting users from unwittingly giving
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As far as online scams designed to steal money and information go, a site called darknetmarkets.org is very impressive and equally scary—not least because Google is currently serving it as a top search result for Bitcoin tutorials. Darknetmarkets.org, for all intents and purposes, is a “real” website. Its logo looks to be made of chopped-up
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