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Someone is spoofing your email address. They are pretending to be you (email spoofing) in the hopes of phishing unsuspecting users and distributing malware to them. You are receiving complaints from people in companies you have never heard of, telling you to stop sending them viruses, malware and spam. Angry admins are asking you toRead more

Compliance can be a scary word, especially when you aren’t prepared for the requirements you face or are caught by surprise as policies change and become worried about addressing them in a short time frame. In the case of small businesses, this can be even more challenging as you may not have the resources orRead more

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a much-ballyhooed solution built to protect organizations from malicious attacks via multiple functionalities, including: Scanning email attachments for malware Scanning URLs in email messages and Office documents Identifying and blocking malicious files in SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams Checking email messages for unauthorized spoofing Detecting when someone attemptsRead more

It’s always fun to start off with a good trivia question: according to a 2017 Verizon report, what percentage of malware was installed via a Malicious Email Attachment? 66% or a full ⅔ of malware. That includes backdoors, keyloggers, spyware, ransomware, exploits, downloaders and plenty of other really bad stuff. The consequences of falling victimRead more

What do Cryptolocker, Dridex, and Locky have in common? Besides being evil malware, they all started with malicious attachments. An innocent looking PDF, ZIP or Other, and before you know it you your sending money to a cyber criminal or a ransomware recovery specialist. When it comes to malicious attachments, the attack vectors can beRead more