Barry Strauss

SlashNext

Attackers are constantly refining their techniques for advanced phishing attacks to exploit the trust inherent in our digital systems. A recent incident we’ve captured highlights the alarming sophistication of modern phishing attempts, demonstrating how cybercriminals leverage trusted enterprise solutions to deceive even the most vigilant users. Let’s break down this ... Read More

Imagine receiving an email that looks perfectly legitimate, down to the last detail. This is the deceptive power of new FishXProxy Phishing Kit, a new phishing toolkit emerging from the cybercrime underground. With its array of advanced features, FishXProxy dismantles the technical barriers traditionally associated with phishing campaigns, making it ... Read More

The Evolution of Phishing Attacks: Beyond Email Phishing attacks have long been synonymous with email, but the landscape of cyberthreats has evolved dramatically. Today, phishing is not confined to email inboxes; it has permeated various communication channels, including SMS, WhatsApp, and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom. This ... Read More

The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2024 showcased the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) across various industries, with a particular focus on the cybersecurity landscape. As organizations increasingly adopt AI for innovation and efficiency, it is crucial to understand the opportunities and challenges that come with this technology ... Read More

Quick Response codes – aka QR Codes – were first used in 1994 by a Japanese company called Denso Wave to primarily track parts in the automotive manufacturing process. The QR code’s design allowed it to store more information than the traditional barcodes that were used and could be quickly ... Read More

Your organization will most likely face AI based threats in cybersecurity at some point this year. And as such, you can’t rely on outdated risk assessment methodologies that struggle to keep pace with the new highly sophisticated AI phishing techniques used for Business Email Compromise (BEC), smishing, link and file-based ... Read More

Deepfake social engineering scams have become an increasingly scary trend among cybercriminals to socially engineer victims into submission. The threat actors are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) voice cloning tools to disperse misinformation for cybercriminal scams. It doesn’t take much for an audio recording of a voice ... Read More

SlashNext has been named in the Top 3 list for Integrated Cloud Email Security Vendors by G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace used by 80 million software buyers each year. This recognition is decided by actual customer feedback on features and functionality as compared to competitive alternatives.  Quarterly, ... Read More

In a recent blog, we cited the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) latest 2022 report, which emphasized a steep and significant rise in Business Email Compromise (BEC) growth. The FBI documented victim’s adjusted losses reaching over $2.7 billion for the year. The FBI added ... Read More

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has just published their 2022 Internet Crime Report. As expected, the annual report warns about the serious threat of Business Email Compromise (BEC) like 2021, but also reveals the growth of investment scams, which exceeded BEC losses ... Read More