Throughout the week of May 10, 2021, headlines thrived on the havoc a ransomware attack against Colonial Pipelines wrought across the United States. As people rushed to gas stations, some filling plastic bags with gasoline, the federal government declared a state of emergency. As ransomware continues to plague public and private organizations, taking a deep…
Ransomware continues to plague companies as the remote and hybrid workforce models leave new attack vectors. Research notes a 715% year-over-year increase in ransomware during 2020. Now that most disaster recovery and business continuity plans include robust data backup strategies, cyber attackers use a combined ransomware approach that both encrypts data and steals data. The…
Recently the news has been full of high-profile cyber attacks perpetrated through an email phishing technique called Vendor Email Compromise. A VEC attack is when a hacker hijacks a legitimate email account to send malicious messages to an innocent victim. As the originating email comes from a trusted partner or supplier – and often contains…
Our CEO and founder Aviv Grafi was featured on Patrick Grey’s Risky Biz podcast, along with GreyNoise Intelligence’s Andrew Morris and MergeBases’ Oscar van der Meer. Throughout the discussion, Grafi explained topics such as using CDR to defend against macro threats. He also described a recent example of vendor email compromise, shared how Votiro differentiates…
This blog will define the concept of document sanitization and explain why document-based security challenges are especially significant in the current business climate. The blog will then do a deep dive into three industries – healthcare, insurance and the financial sectors – to explore the document-related challenges within each of these industries, and highlight how…
Downloading files from the internet has always been a risky business – and PDF files are no exception. Oftentimes, users don’t think twice before they download a PDF file from the web. And while PDFs seem harmless, they can, unfortunately, carry malicious code that could cause serious damage to an organization. EdgeSpot, an exploit detection…
It seems as if news of another malware or ransomware attack surfaces every day. From the ransomware attack against defense contractor CPI to an Emotet campaign impersonating the Democratic National Committee, 2020 was booming with malware and ransomware incidents. Unfortunately, sophisticated and devastating malware and ransomware attacks will likely increase throughout 2021 as threat actors…
When we think of ransomware attacks, we often assume the attacker gained access to the enterprise network via a phishing email. However, there are a variety of other attack vectors bad actors are currently leveraging to carry out ransomware attacks that can be incredibly damaging to an organization. Recent research from Rhino Security Labs shows…
Modern business processes rely on sharing information across the cloud. Your users are emailing documents and uploading files to shared drives as part of their jobs. Ensuring safe, secure, clean files is now mission-critical. Employees know that they shouldn’t open attached files when they don’t know the person sending them, but phishing emails aren’t the…
