Intelligence & Analytics February 21, 2023

Backdoor Deployment and Ransomware: Top Threats Identified in X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023

4 min read - Discover how threat actors are waging attacks and how to proactively protect your organization with top findings from the 2023 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index.

Risk Management August 5, 2022

Fishy Business: What Are Spear Phishing, Whaling and Barrel Phishing?

4 min read - For threat actors, phishing embodies the holy trinity of goals: easy, effective and profitable. It’s no wonder that the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index reports that phishing was the top method used by attackers to breach an organization. Of all…

News December 22, 2021

Norton Names Tech Support Phishing Scams Top Threat

2 min read - Got a pop-up message from tech support? It’s probably not the real thing. Tech support scams were the top phishing threat for organizations in the third quarter of 2021, reported NortonLifeLock. Tech Support Scam Takeaways The consumer antivirus company reported…

News November 3, 2021

Phishing: Attackers Use DocuSign to Send Malicious Links

2 min read - Attackers are abusing the electronic agreement management company DocuSign to send phishing links and documents. Inside the Phishing Attempt First, a malicious actor registers a free account with DocuSign or compromises another user’s account. They then upload a file to…

Advanced Threats October 14, 2021

How to Report Scam Calls and Phishing Attacks

5 min read - With incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline infection and the Kaseya supply chain attack making so many headlines these days, it can be easy to forget that malicious actors are still preying on individual users. They’re not using ransomware to…

News May 21, 2021

LinkedIn Security Warning: Malware Sent via Fake Job Offers

2 min read - LinkedIn security problems may come not from the website itself but from people trying to abuse it. Digital attackers launched a spear-phishing campaign on LinkedIn in April that used fake job offers to spread malware. The attackers attempted to trick…

June 2, 2020

Trickbot Using BazarBackdoor to Gain Full Access to Targeted Networks

2 min read - Security researchers observed the Trickbot operators using a new backdoor called "BazarBackdoor" to gain full access to targeted networks.

April 20, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: IoT Botnet Assembled by New Mozi Malware Family

3 min read - Researchers revealed that a new malware family called Mozi is in the process of building an IoT botnet. Read on to learn what else happened last week in security news.

Endpoint April 9, 2020

Phishers and iPhone Thieves Rolling Out Multimillion-Dollar Operations

9 min read - Going down the rabbit hole of a physical iPhone theft followed by a SMiShing campaign, IBM X-Force IRIS researchers found a large-scale operation of phishers with over 600 phishing domains.

April 6, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: MS-SQL Servers Targeted by ‘Vollgar’ Campaign

2 min read - Researchers uncovered an attack campaign that spent the past two years targeting Windows machines running MS-SQL servers. Read on to learn what else happened last week in security news.