Positive Technologies analyzed cyberthreats in the financial industry, finding that by the end of H1 2024, these organizations placed among the top five in recorded incidents. During this period, the share of cyberattacks using social engineering more than doubled compared to H1 2023, while malware remains the weapon of choice forRead More…

Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint have released “The 2022 Social Engineering Report”, which analyzes key trends and techniques of socially engineered cyber threats observed over the past year. Social engineering is a component of nearly every threat actor’s toolbox who uses email as an initial access vector. From financially motivated cybercrime,Read More…

The psychology of influencing individuals to feel compelled to do specific behaviours- also known as social engineering is one of the most used cyberattack strategies. In the world of cybersecurity, social engineering is nefarious — and the realm of phishing attack perpetrators. Bad actors utilize a variety of psychological tacticsRead More…

With attacks on WhatsApp users on the rise, Rafe Pilling, Senior Security Researcher, Secureworks, explains to the readers of Security MEA the type of attacks being seen and how users can protect themselves.Read More…