Can analyzing message metadata help to protect organizations from becoming the victim of a successful BEC attack? Business Email Compromise (BEC) is an umbrella term...
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The Hidden Costs of Phishing & BEC
By Max Avory A couple of months ago we sat down with Damian Stalls, vCIO director at Fluid Networks to discuss how they dramatically reduced the time their security...
Email Hijacking Delivers Qakbot Malware
by Dexter To and Maharlito Aquino Introduction Originally a banking Trojan that existed in the wild as early as 2007, Qakbot (or QBot) is a pioneer of malware as a...
Example Analysis of Multi-Component Malware
by Kervin Alintanahin Recently, we have received an increase in the number of malicious email samples with password-protected attachments. The recent waves of attacks...
How the War in Ukraine Has Influenced the Scammers’ Underground
by Ira Chernous For the past three months, most media news headlines have been talking about a painful subject that leaves no one indifferent: the war. Since the start...
The Resurgence of Emotet
by Kervin Alintanahim Password Protected Docs One of the most recent Emotet samples we received were emails with password protected attachments. Although the malicious...
Malicious Excel Add-in Variant Delivers Malware
By Floser Bacurio Jr XLL is an Excel Add-in extension file that provides ways to use third-party tools and functions that are not available in Microsoft Excel. It is...
What is Smishing? Prevention, Examples & More
by Maharlito Aquino Key Points: Smishing is causing millions of dollars in losses. Robokiller insights show that consumers have received over 12 billion in robotexts....
Office 365 Phishing, BEC, & Ransomware Survey Highlights
by Max Avory Reading a complete report is not for everyone. If that includes you, here are the key takeaways from the 2022 Osterman report on Phishing, BEC, and...