As a business leader, you’ve worked hard to build a great team. You have a fantastic IT person—or a small, dedicated IT department—that keeps your network running, your software updated, and your employees productive. When a problem arises, they fix it. You’re covered, right? This is one of the most common and dangerous misconceptions in …
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Understanding the source of Business email compromise is only the first step. The next challenge is quantifying the risk to an enterprise when employee email accounts appear in one, two, or even multiple breaches. A single exposure might reveal basic credentials, but repeated compromises across different platforms often provide attackers with a fuller picture—combining passwords, …
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A common question in cybersecurity circles is: How can business email accounts be compromised even when the user never clicks a phishing link or downloads malware? To explore this, we analyzed 50,000 email addresses from across Asia Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia. Each address was checked against HaveIBeenPwned.com to determine whether it had been exposed, …
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WatchdogCyberdefense.com dataset shows that the Top 10 IPs have been seen attacking our clients for the LONGEST time: In contrast to one-off or bursty traffic patterns, sustained attacks often involve repeated actions over an extended period, aiming to overwhelm, infiltrate, or persist within a target system. Persistence Signals Intent Most legitimate users, bots, and even …
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