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Darkgate Pastejacking – Analysis and Breakdown of the Attack Chain
IntroductionVade's Threat Intelligence and Response Center - (now part of Hornetsecurity!) recently observed a number of malicious phishing campaigns distributing Darkgate using an unusual technique called Pastejacking. DarkGate is a sophisticated and evolving malware...
Security Awareness Survey: 1 in 4 (25.7%) Organizations do not Provide I.T. Security Awareness Training
About Hornetsecurity Security Awareness Survey Security awareness training is an essential defense mechanism for organizations against a plethora of evolving cyber threats. It involves educating employees about various cybersecurity practices, identifying potential...
How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks: An Easy-to-Follow Guide
It's been the scourge of businesses globally for several years now, and shows no sign of abating - ransomware, which makes ransomware attack prevention crucial. Not a new threat, but growing in seriousness over the last few years, aided by the ease for the criminals...
The Vulnerability of AI to Cyber Attacks – AI’s Achilles’ Heel
Artificial Intelligence (AI) attacks are not quite at the level of Skynet depicted in the 1984 film “The Terminator,” but this hasn’t stopped the speculations and real-world implications around AI technological advances. Although the science fiction within “The...
Cyber Security Report 2024 – Top Five Things to Look Out for in 2024
Our yearly Cyber Security Report is here – download it free here. One of the best things about Hornetsecurity’s yearly Cyber Security Report is its foundation in empirical data. For this year we analyzed over 45 billion emails and derived our insights and...
Tested Techniques for Preventing Cloud Attacks on Your System
Whenever we see a technology rising in the market, it quickly becomes one of the targets for hackers. The same is happening with the cloud. According to Statista, as of 2023, 60% of corporate data is stored in a public cloud hosted by AWS, Microsoft, Google, and...
How Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Changing Cybersecurity
Traditional security systems can't keep pace with the increased number of cyber threat activities. The amount of data that is being generated is large and complex. According to the Data Never Sleeps 4.0 report 2016, over 18 TB of data is generated every minute. Today,...
The Biggest Findings in Hornetsecurity’s Cyber Security Report 2024
Our yearly Cyber Security Report is here – download it free here. This year we’ve analyzed over 45 billion emails and sliced and diced this data, and compared it with last year’s report to provide actionable insights for anyone who wants to protect their business...