A spear phishing attack is a precision-guided digital strike, far more refined than the chaotic, wide-net approach of standard phishing. While common phishing is like trawling the entire ocean hoping for any catch, spear phishing is the cyber equivalent of…
When people think about threats to a company, they usually imagine hooded hackers sitting in dark rooms, furiously typing while green text scrolls across their screens. Hollywood has done an excellent job of selling that image. In reality, however, some…
In the business world, companies rebrand when sales are down, public image is damaged, or somebody in marketing decides the logo needs to look “more modern.” In the ransomware world, the process is surprisingly similar… except the company is committing…
If you spend enough time reading about cyberattacks, criminal investigations, espionage, or serial killers, you eventually notice something interesting: investigators from completely different fields often describe criminals in surprisingly similar ways. A cyber threat analyst might say, “The attacker reused…
Smurfing is one of those criminal techniques that sounds oddly adorable until you realize it’s basically financial hide-and-seek with regulators. No, it has nothing to do with tiny blue cartoon characters opening offshore bank accounts. In the world of financial…