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“Apocalypse”. This was the powerful term used by many cybersecurity experts to describe the discovery of Log4Shell, a set of vulnerabilities that has been keeping industry professionals awake at night since December 2021. The use of the term may seem exaggerated, but once you understand the severity of the problem, you will agree. We are […]

Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks have become one of the most damaging cyber threats facing organizations today. By exploiting trust, impersonating key contacts, and manipulating employees into making urgent decisions, criminals can cause significant financial and reputational losses. Understanding how these attacks work—and how to prevent them—is essential for any company looking to protect its […]

Radically changing the way development teams work, this concept aims to ensure that security is applied to all stages of the software development cycle, reducing the need for patches. The life of application development teams is not easy. With the emergence of new work methodologies, such as Agile and DevOps, companies began to prioritize speed […]

Up until the early 1990s, when the internet was still in its infancy in the United States, many people logged on for the very first time using university systems to access Usenet academic forums. With the arrival of a new academic year, new students caused major headaches for the veterans – at least until the […]

Despite being more common in Latin America, scams involving fake legal notices are on the rise all over the rest of the world. The scam is nothing more than a phishing attack whereby scammers pose as judicial bodies and encourage victims to click on links, download files contaminated with viruses, or complete false forms.  The […]

“Doxxing” refers to the practice of purposely exposing personal information, usually to create embarrassing situations or to put the victim’s physical integrity at risk.  Originally, “doxxing” was part of disputes among cybercriminals. Since these individuals depended on anonymity, their adversaries would divulge personal documents like IDs and passports – usually as a form of revenge.  […]

It’s almost impossible to imagine our social lives without social networks, right? However, while surfing the net, you need to be careful and know how to identify fake profiles, generic accounts created or cloned by malicious people to hide behind anonymity or someone else’s identity. What’s more, fake accounts can look very similar to official […]

“The system is down”. This is something you may have heard before, referring to the unavailability or inoperability of a digital application or service. With the system down, important tasks may become jeopardized, disrupting ticketing at an airport or the admission of patients to a hospital. When these unforeseen outages are the result of deliberate […]

It’s not hard to imagine why cybercriminals would be interested in getting their hands on bank passwords or credit card details. Scammers, however, know how to exploit a lot of other information, including some possibly considered public. Email addresses are a good example of this. According to Cloudflare’s “Phishing Threats Report”, 90% of successful cyberattacks […]