E-Mail Phishing Attack Overview A social engineering attack, an attacker uses human interaction (social skills) to obtain or compromise information about a company (your financial institution) or its computer systems. The attacker can look like anyone, and could fool you by saying they’re a repairman, or a new intern or employee, and they could actually have identification that says they work for your institution. They’ll…
The spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is forcing many organizations to require their employees to work remotely. While it might mean that we can work comfortably from our home, this also puts our cyber security at high risk as the world is now seeing a huge spike in Corona themed scams, text messages, malware attacks, phishing activities and more. New hacking campaigns are lunched…
We have become all familiar with the type of hacker who leverages their technical expertise to penetrate protected IT and digital systems and compromise sensitive data. We hear about this type of hacker in the news regularly, and we are motivated to counter their exploits by investing in new technologies that will bolster our network defenses. However, there is another type of hacker who can use…
New Trojan named CamuBot especially targeting commercial Bank users has been used to steal money from business customers in Brazil. IBM x-force engineers who first tracked it down and reported it, identified the new Trojan highly sophisticated and very much different in how it operates comparing it previous financial Trojans like TrickBot, Dridex or QakBot. Camubot first appeared in Brazil in early august of 2018….
The acronym SQL (pronounced SEQUEL) stands for Structured Query Language, a language for querying and editing information stored in a certain database management system. SQL was developed in the early 1970s by some people working for IBM. Short after that, in 1979, a company called Relational Software, which later became Oracle Corporation, released its own modified version of SQL. Today, SQL is used in many products, including…