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Dark Web Data Powers Impersonation & Business Email Compromise Scams
Dark Web danger doesn’t just come to your company’s doorstep from compromised passwords –it also comes from data dumpsfull of email addresses, employee information, website user logs, supplier records, medical data, and more that can provide cybercriminals with exactly what they need to lure your staffers into a nasty (and expensive) trap.
Every kind of dataabout your employees that you can think of is available on the Dark Web – sometimes for free. As the 2020 US elections race to the finish, voting registration data and records from special interest groups have fueled extremely dangerous spear phishing attacksincluding impersonation scams.
General business email compromise attempts are landing in employee inboxes every day too.A recent surveyreported that over 30% of respondents reported receiving one every day. Running the gamut of impersonations including scary vendor notices, fake unpaid invoices, spoofed supplier communications, and even fake emails from colleagues, cybercriminals are pulling out all the stops to trick your staffers into falling into a business email compromise scam.
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The most efficient and effective way to put the brakes on business email compromise risks is to mitigate the foundation that they’re built on: phishing email.With a more than 600% increase in phishing attacks clocked in 2020, making sure that your staff is ready to defend against phishing attacks is crucial to protecting your business from cybercrime like business email compromise.
BullPhish ID can help with that. Regular security awareness training including phishing awareness can reduce your company’s risk of falling prey to a cyberattack by up to 70%. The key is regularity though – research shows thatemployees only retain security awareness training for about 4 monthsunless it’s regularly refreshed.
That’s not a problem with BullPhish ID. Featuring a huge library of more than80 plug-and-play phishing simulation campaign kits in 8 languages, we also add 4 new kits every month to make sure that your staffers are getting the training that they need to be on guard against the latest threats.
Regular training doesn’t mean expensive either – BullPhish ID is affordable and effective. Improved cybersecurity awareness and phishing resistance training isn’t something that can wait. Protect your systems and data from impersonation and business email compromise scams now to avoid a mess tomorrow.Contact us today for a live demo of BullPhish IDto see how it can secure your customers and grow your business.
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Too Many Privileged Credentials Can Lead to Disaster
How many administrator or above credentials are around for your business systems? How many people have access to an administrator password who shouldn’t? Can you be sure that every former staffer’s access has been removed? How many of your staffers arereusing passwords at workand at home?
Compromised credentials cause big business problems, and privileged credentials are Golden Tickets for cybercriminals. In a recent analysis, experts determined that as many as a fifth of employees with privileged user credentials don’t need them – a third of the respondents even said that everyone at their level has the same access, whether they need it or not.
Playing fast and loose with privileged access to your systems and data is a disaster waiting to happen, as theUS Government recently found out. Bad actors were able to gain access to critical data and systems with stolen access credentials for O365, including administrator credentials. The attackers were then able to conduct a complex malware attack, remotely logging into staffers’ computers.
Sometimes it’s inconvenient to have to track down someone to click a button. Butgiving out privileged access to everyoneis no good at all, and sharing administrator passwords is not the answer. Simple secure identity and access management is the solution.
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Passly combines multiple security tools into one solution,giving you more for your moneyincluding multifactor authentication and secure shared password vaults. But the most important feature that Passly provides to alleviate this headache is single sign-on. It makes everyone’s job easier.
Instead of writing down administrator passwords to access a system or giving people blanket access,single sign-onallows every staffer to have a personalized LaunchPad that signs them in to all of the apps they’ll use at work in one swoop.
It’s also a boon for IT departments. No need to go into every single application a staffer might use and grant them access permissions. No more endless password resets when somebody lost that sticky note. Every user has an individual LaunchPad thatIT staff can access from anywhere, granting and removing permissions with just a few clicks.
Secure identity and access management was cited asa top priority for next year by CISOsin a recent survey, and it’s no wonder. Making it easier for IT staffers to control your access points while making it easier to make sure that the right people have access to the right things exactly when they need it just makes good sense.
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe – COVID-19 Phishing is Back for an Encore
COVID-19 quickly rose to the top of Google’s list of the biggest phishing topics in history in the spring of 2020. Aftera monster increase of more than 600% in phishing in Q2 2020, the tsunami of phishing email around the global pandemic seemed to be slowing down as the topic became less sensational.
But the fall of 2020 is shaping up to be the return of theCOVID-19 phishing scam. As disease rates climb in some countries and COVID-19’s second wave starts making its way through the world, cybercriminals are looking for ways to get some replay value out of their best pandemic-themed phishing tricks.
In a study of user reactions to cybersecurity dangers like phishing lures,researchers at Verizondiscovered that even with all of the hype surrounding COVID-19 scams, users are three times more likely to click on a phishing link and then enter their credentials than they were before the pandemic, and thousands of new COVID-19 scam pages are still being created every day.
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Our longCOVID-19 phishing nightmareisn’t even close to over. Fresh warnings about COVID-19 relief scams and pandemic-related phishing emails from entities like the FBI serve as fresh warnings that there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight forthe audacity of cybercriminals in the time of COVID – 19.The UK’s National Computer Security Center (NCSC) recently announced that it had taken down about 2,000 scams in just one month.
That means it’s time to remind your clients about the value of security awareness training, especially phishing resistance training. Companies that engage in regular cybersecurity awareness training have 70% fewer cybersecurity incidents –as long as that training is regularly updated. Staffers hold on to what they learned in training for about 4 months at most, so regularly updating training is a must.
BullPhish ID provides a robust training solution that’s good for you and your clients. With4 new plug-and-play phishing simulation kitsadded every month, including COVID-19 threats, your clients will have plenty of material to use for their training campaigns – and you’ll have a nice boost to your MRR when they keep using our easy, cost-effective solution.
Everyone’s trying to save money in a tight economy, butsecurity awareness training isn’t the place to make cuts in the IT budget. A small up-front investment in training with a dynamic solution like BullPhish ID pays huge dividends in improved overall cybersecurity when a phishing email lands in an employee inbox and gets deleted instead of opened, saving a fortune.
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