Widespread remote work will stick around into 2021 and beyond. As businesses continue to adjust their operations, so too will attackers. Next year, we believe attackers will evolve their malware with worm functionality to not only spread across home networks, but to seek out connected devices that indicate corporate use. For more information and to learn what other emerging … [Read more...]
2021 Security Predictions: Cloud-Hosting Providers Finally Crack Down on Cyber Abuse
2021 will be the year Cloud hosting providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft finally begin to crack down on phishing and other malicious activities that abuse their reputation and services. Attackers have abused custom subdomains to lure in victims for too long, and it’s about to come to an end. Interested in how this trend will play out and what other emerging security … [Read more...]
2021 Security Predictions: Automation Drives Tidal Wave of Spear Phishing Campaigns
This year has brought dramatic and extreme change at every turn. The global COVID-19 pandemic has transformed business and life as we know it, accelerating the move to remote operations where employees work outside the protection of the corporate firewall. As we look ahead at what 2021 has in store with our annual cybersecurity predictions, we know cyber criminals will adapt to … [Read more...]
I am not worried about my Wi-Fi!
If you have read our recent Internet Security Report you will see there is a rise in probe requests over public Wi-Fi. Penetration testing tools are getting more sophisticated, it’s becoming easier for cyber criminals to eavesdrop and steal personal information from people over Wi-Fi. If we look at the original Mark I pineapple from Hak5 when it was first released, it was … [Read more...]
7 Myths About U.S. Election Voting Security
With only a week left to the U.S. Presidential Election, voting is in the news and on most people’s minds (though many of us are also looking forward to the conclusion of this election cycle). This is especially true because of all the voting security stories that have been in the news lately. Whether its nation-state adversaries trying to manipulate our election, domestic … [Read more...]