According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, “The threat of cyber security may very well be the biggest threat to the US financial system.” Coupled with the fact that financial services is one of the most highly targeted industries, it’s clear financial organizations are in trouble. Reports show a 56% year-over-year increase in digital threats targeting the sector, and according to new research, phishing is a key threat vector.
Tags: phishing attack
It was reported on April 1st – appropriate that it was April Fool’s Day – by a number of media outlets that Hudson’s Bay Company, the Canada-based parent company of iconic luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, as well as Lord & Taylor and Saks Off 5th, had been hacked. Reportedly, over 5 million credit and debit card numbers of customers of the retailers had been stolen, and supposedly were for sale on the Dark Web.
Tags: hacked, hackers, phishing attack, cyber security, isolation technology, browser isolation
The past few years, the major studios and production companies that create movies, broadcast television, streaming content, and even online and video games have been under cyber attack.
Tags: malware, isolation, ransomware, malicious code, cyber attacks, phishing attack
Last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security directed federal agencies to begin employing enhanced security methods and protocols on all government email accounts. This action is an effort to halt the impersonation of U.S. government email domains, referred to as spoofing, by attackers intent on deploying a dizzying array of cyber attacks typically initiated by a phishing campaign. Given that many reports place the start of a cyber attack squarely on phishing campaigns—some reports place the figure at over 90% of cyberattacks are as the result of phishing—it makes sense that the DHS would require greater email security for federal government email accounts and inboxes.
Tags: isolation, cyber attacks, phishing attack, cyber security, DMARC
At the recent FS-ISAC Fall Summit in Baltimore, Maryland, many attendees—whether banks, insurance companies, or other financial services institutions (FSIs), such as brokerages—expressed their concerns about phishing attacks.
Tags: malware, FS-ISAC Annual Summit 2017, phishing attack, cyber security
