How Mobile Ad Fraud has Evolved in the Year of the Pandemic

The past 18 months have arguably been the most turbulent on record for the mobile industry. The majority of the world spent significant portions of 2020 under some kind of lockdown, with pressure mounting on mobile operators to keep us connected to the outside world, and with each other. This...

Hackers Exploit Post-COVID Return to Offices

With COVID-19 restrictions lifting and workers trickling back to offices, threat actors are sharpening their spear phishing ploys. The latest scam includes pelting recipients with emails purportedly from their CIOs welcoming employees back into offices. The emails outline a company’s post-pandemi...

Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 4—navigating current threats

In part three of this blog series on aligning security with business objectives and risk, we explored what it takes for security leaders to shift from looking at their mission as purely defending against technical attacks, to one that focuses on protecting valuable business assets, data, and...

XITE Music Video Platform Amplifies Entertainment with Akamai's Help

By: Ralph Aantjes With so many people around the globe seeking socially distanced fun and solace, at-home entertainment has never been more important. XITE aims to offer the best music video experience in the world. Akamai is delighted that this exciting, interactive video platform chose to work...

CISOs Struggle to Cope with Mounting Job Stress

The CISOs aren’t OK. A new survey showed the pandemic has ratcheted up job pressure to “extreme stress” levels among chief information security officers CISOs, and it’s left them grappling for coping mechanisms ranging from workouts to narcotics. OneLogin released the results of its survey of 250...

Verizon: Pandemic Ushers in ⅓ More Cyber Misery

Thanks for just showing up, said the team that cranked out the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. It’s quite the accomplishment that we all made it through the “often frightening and always unpredictable dystopian wasteland that was 2020,” the carrier noted, with cybersecurity...

Observed Changes to the Threat Landscape in 2020

Reflecting on the cybersecurity threat landscape in 2020, we can't overlook the massive changes that landed on us. Global security attacks increased at a significant pace between 2019 and 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic only deepened these troubling conditions. As corporations tried to adapt to...

QR Codes Offer Easy Cyberattack Avenues as Usage Spikes

The use of mobile quick-response QR codes in daily life, for both work and personal use, continues to rise – and yet, most people aren’t aware that these handy mobile shortcuts can open them up to savvy cyberattacks. That’s according to Ivanti, which carried out a survey of 4,157 consumers across...

What COVID-19 Taught Us: Prepping Cybersecurity for the Next Crisis

Few could have anticipated the impact COVID-19 has had on business. It spread from an isolated outbreak to a global pandemic seemingly overnight, and IT leaders across the planet have had mixed success adjusting to the changes and uncertainty it has brought. While COVID-19 caught many businesses...

Malwarebytes releases SMB Cybersecurity Trust & Confidence Report 2021

What can we say about 2020 that hasn’t already been said? Beliefs were shaken. Values were questioned. Truths were tested. Then COVID happened and things really got crazy. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 12, 2020. That same day...

M-Trends 2021: A View From the Front Lines

We are thrilled to launch M-Trends 2021, the 12th edition of our annual FireEye Mandiant publication. The past year has been unique, as we witnessed an unprecedented combination of global events. Business operations shifted in response to the worldwide pandemic and threat actors continued to...

Hackers Targeting professionals With 'more_eggs' Malware via LinkedIn Job Offers

A new spear-phishing campaign is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with weaponized job offers in an attempt to infect targets with a sophisticated backdoor trojan called "moreeggs." To increase the odds of success, the phishing lures take advantage of malicious ZIP archive files that have the...

LinkedIn Spear-Phishing Campaign Targets Job Hunters

A threat group called Golden Chickens is delivering the fileless backdoor moreeggs through a spear-phishing campaign targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers, according to researchers at eSentire. The phishing emails try to trick a victim into clicking on a malicious .ZIP file by...

How to Vaccinate Against the Poor Password Policy Pandemic

Data breaches remain a constant threat, and no industry or organization is immune from the risks. From Fortune 500 companies to startups, password-related breaches continue to spread seemingly unchecked. As a result of the volume of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, hackers now have acce...

Top MSPs challenges in 2021

If one searches for ‘the top MSP challenges’ between 2017 and 2020, there are mainly five things that are more likely to emerge from the search results: adopting cloud-based solutions, sales margins, satisfying complex client’s needs, employee turnover, and the scalability of the IT security...

Cyberattacks See Fundamental Changes, A Year into COVID-19

COVID-19-related phishing emails, brute-force attacks on remote workers, and a focus on exploiting or abusing collaboration platforms are the hallmarks of cybercriminal enterprise as the coronavirus marks its first anniversary of going global. A year after the COVID-19 crisis was officially...

COVID-19: Examining the threat landscape a year later

A year ago — everything changed. In an effort to stem the tide of a rapidly spreading pandemic, the world shut down. Shops were forced to shut their doors, and whole countries were placed on stringent lockdowns. Schools were closed around the world, with more than one billion children affected, a...

Akamai Offers Free Tier for Client-Side Edge Security

In March 2020, Akamai saw a dramatic 30% rise in internet traffic -- equivalent to an entire year of growth. Post-pandemic, we believe there will be a return to normal internet traffic growth, but many things will never be the same...

Ransomware Attack Strikes Spain’s Employment Agency

The Spanish State Employment Service SEPE in Spain has been hit by a cyberattack, suspending its communications systems across hundreds of offices and delaying thousands of appointments. SEPE is an “autonomous body” in Spain that manages and controls unemployment benefits. The cyberattack hit...

International Women’s Day: How to support and grow women in cybersecurity

Today, March 8, we are proud to celebrate International Women’s Day. The United Nations announced this year’s theme as “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” As a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a leader at Microsoft, this is an important time t...