ATTACK Simulator Security Awareness Blog
Keep your finger on the pulse of cybersecurity.
We’re dedicated to give you the insights you need to mature the security infrastructure in your company. Read from experts in the field and guest authors about the latest news in security awareness, and gain the necessary knowledge about managing risks, and the latest technologies in hacking, including social engineering, phishing, and malware.
Latest Articles
Social engineering: what it is and 10 examples of these attacks
Social engineering is a type of manipulation based on tricking the user through different malicious activities to secretly provide private information like passwords and bank account information or access your device to install malware (malicious software). These...
Top 4 Popular Phishing Examples Most People Would Fall For
This post will walk you through 4 Phishing Examples that will help you and your employees recognize phishing attempts more easily. Phishing attacks have become more and more creative, subtle, and harder to tell from the real deal. The bad guys never sleep, but neither...
Smishing 101: Definition, Types, and Precautions
Smishing is a phishing method that has gained popularity lately, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic context, but it's been around way earlier, as opposed to what most people tend to assume. Smishing targets victims by using a more direct route than an e-mail or...
SideCopy targeted Indian Government officials with new malware
SideCopy, a cyber-espionage group, has been observed increasingly targeting Indian Government staff as part of a large campaign to infect victims with the new custom remote access trojans (RATs), flagging a “boost in their development operations”! Who are SideCopy?...
Security Awareness Training: 6 Key Compliance Requirements
Personal data protection is a matter of utmost importance in the ever-growing digital world With the ever-growing cyber threats and costly attacks, legislative bodies have established international standards and regulations to compel IT organizations to provide...
Security Awareness Training: 4-Step Phishing Simulations
What you don't know can't hurt you, right? Wrong. At least, when we're talking cybersecurity. The first and most crucial step in protecting your business from phishing attacks is acknowledging their existence and being able to recognize them. Nowadays, security...
Biggest ransomware attacks of 2021
There has been an increase in high-profile ransomware attacks in 2021
Security awareness training: a guide for choosing the right one for your business with 6 steps
Security awareness training is the easiest way and the first step you can take to protect your business from attacks like data breaches, ransomware, or other cyberattacks. As you already may know, most of the time, these attacks occur because of your employees....
People aren’t aware of 74% of breaches, a new study reveals
Nowadays, being prepared in terms of recognizing cyberattacks might just save you or your company. After massive data breaches, such as the recent one that affected LinkedIn, or the one that compromised Equifax four years ago, exposing millions of private records, one...
Security awareness training: 8 reasons why your company needs it
The ugly truth is that data breaches happen more often than we'd like to admit, can be very expensive, and can hit companies of all sizes. Thus, security awareness training isn't something you afford to overlook. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime rates rose to...
