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Expert Insights and Tools for Fortifying Your Cyber Defense
Elevate your cybersecurity expertise and strengthen the security posture of your organization with expert guidance, industry best practices, and research insights from Enterprotect.
How Ransomware Recruitment Is Turning Employees Into Accomplices
Learn the latest trend of cyber criminals recruiting your employees and key tips for defending against internal threats through staff training, access restriction, and a multi-layered security approach.
Major Bitcoin Scam Rocks Twitter
In what some are labeling as the worst social media platform hack to-date, several high-profile twitter accounts were targeted in a highly sophisticated and coordinated hack. The accounts belonging to some of the world’s richest and most influential people, including celebrities, politicians, and companies, were targeted in the large scale Bitcoin scam.
BEC Phishing Scam Tricks City into Transferring $530K
A recent email phishing attack was deployed against the City of Burlington, where hackers were able to successfully trick staff members into thinking that they were dealing with established city vendors. By not cluing in on time, the city sent $503,000 to a falsified bank account. The government is now working on updating and implementing new protocols to prevent incidents like this from happening in the future.
2,841 Patients Impacted by Phishing Attack
Hackers were able to gain access to thousands of patients’ information stored on an employee’s email account. The employee was tricked into submitting his credentials to the hackers via an email that was originally thought to be from the company’s IT department. Nova Scotia Health Authority took nearly a month to size up the details of the data that was compromised and still cannot verify the specific data exposure.
Ransomware 101: Understanding the Growing Threat
Ransomware: a highly intrusive form of malware that essentially invades a victim's files and locks the user out by encrypting their system or files. As the name suggests, the attacker then demands a ransom from the victim in order to unlock the files and restore access.
I Fell For a Phishing Attack: Now What?!
Since April of 2018, Canada has experienced a drastic uptick in phishing volume, +170% (Phishlabs:2019 phishing trends and intelligent report). Ranking as the 2nd largest increase in volume globally, Canadian SMBs need to understand the depth of sophistication that attackers are using in order to EDUCATE and train employees.
Phishing 101: Discovering the Deceptive World of Phishing
Phishing is classified as a social engineering cyber attack since cyber criminals use their social skills to pose as a trusted or reputable source in order to solicit confidential information from their victim. Impostors typically use some form of email, phone or direct message in order to contact the victim and trick them into taking immediate action.
My Password Was Hacked: Now What?
Likely you’ve received a link to this article because you’ve received a notification from us telling you your password was compromised. There are a number of tools we use to detect if your password was compromised so this article won’t go into detail about the how. We will simply focus on the “Now what?”.
$100’s of Thousands Stolen as Coast Capital Members Targeted In Phishing Ring
A ring of phishing scams targeted banking customers at Coast Capital Savings. A reported 140 members had thousands of dollars stolen from their accounts in the attacks that spanned from November to December of last year. On average victims lost $3,000-$6,000 with the total figure in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range. Public concerns have risen as the financial institution is unsure of how the funds were accessed or even if victims will be reimbursed.