Ever killed an afternoon hunting through docs for one setup command? Most teams open a chat, ask how to configure a REST monitor or fix a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) failure, then wait in queue for someone to paste a doc link. By then, you've already moved on or tried three wrong things. ManageEngine Applications […]
Think employees can still spot phishing by looking for typos? That strategy collapsed when attackers started using AI to write polished, personalized emails that bypass filters and look legitimate. According to KnowBe4's 2025 Phishing Threat Trends Report, 73% of phishing emails analyzed in 2024 showed signs of AI involvement. Your team is looking for red […]
Your Help Desk Got Hit This Week A caller impersonated a senior executive. Your help desk reset the password. Thirty minutes later, payroll data walked out the door. The incident report will note procedural failures. What it won't note: your help desk staff completed their annual security awareness training six months ago, right on schedule. […]
The Iran strikes happened Friday. The phishing surge hit Monday. Criminals launched phishing campaigns within 72 hours of the strikes, using fake invoices and shipping alerts tied to regional chaos. Your email filters caught the obvious stuff, but compressed files with malware hidden as .jar or .hta sailed right through. Across Gulf countries, phishing activity […]
What if the phishing email your filter missed is sitting in someone's inbox right now? Phishing attacks jumped 47 percent past Microsoft's native defenses because attackers stopped triggering spam rules and started impersonating your CEO. Employees who spot something suspicious often hesitate or stay silent. Manual triage buries your security team in reports while actual […]
What if Your Entire SOC Is Just Two People and Three Hundred Alerts? Most public sector teams toggle between five security consoles while phishing reports pile up faster than analysts can open them. Manual triage delays remediation while attackers move laterally across Microsoft 365 environments. Staffing shortages are chronic. Budgets remain flat. Responsibilities expand. Small […]
The Credential Is Already Gone Attackers no longer need to exploit infrastructure. They log in using stolen credentials harvested through phishing and social engineering. By the time your SOC manually triages the inbox, the credential is active and the lateral movement has begun. Public sector organizations face a structural disadvantage. Resource constraints limit automation. Fragmented […]
Ever tested if your backups actually restore or just hoping they will? Most teams assume backups work until ransomware hits and nobody's verified restoration in eighteen months. That assumption becomes the difference between recovery and paying attackers because you have no other option. World Backup Day exposes a persistent organizational blind spot: backups exist, alerts […]
Phishing attacks migrated from email inboxes to Microsoft Teams because employees trust chat requests more than messages that arrive by mail. Urgency feels legitimate when it comes from a colleague in a collaboration space. Starting in 2023, threat actors exploited this trust at scale. By 2025, callback phishing and voice phishing (vishing) became dominant tactics, […]
When Email Filters Stop Working Phishing-as-a-Service platforms now provide MFA-bypass capabilities and pre-built templates to attackers with minimal technical skill. Nearly half of all phished identities are corporate, proving that perimeter defenses are insufficient when employees lack training to recognize sophisticated social engineering tactics. Credential compromise has become an industrialized operation. PhaaS kits include fake […]
