Blog: Privacy & Cybersecurity Insights

Enhancing Security Against Social Engineering: Safeguarding Customer Interaction Centers and IT Support Teams

Customer service centers, commonly known as call centers and IT support teams, often referred to as help desks, are becoming an increasingly popular target for threat actors to infiltrate organizations through social engineering. These employee groups typically possess elevated privileges... Read More

Impersonation on LinkedIn: Recognizing the Top 10 Telltale Signs of Threat Actors

LinkedIn has become an essential tool for professionals to network, share knowledge, and seek career opportunities. Yet, like any popular platform, it has become a fertile ground for threat actors to exploit unsuspecting users. In fact, our research indicates it’s... Read More

Protecting Against Social Engineering and Credential Stuffing

NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and HASP frameworks In today’s digital world, the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats poses significant challenges for organizations. Two major concerns are social engineering and credential stuffing, the attack vectors responsible for most breaches. Organizations... Read More

How Threat Actors Exploit Generative AI For Social Engineering and Credential Compromise

Social engineering attacks are one of the most commonly used methods for cyber criminals to gain access to sensitive data and information. Recent advances in generative AI have enabled threat actors to utilize AI-generated content to fuel these attacks, making... Read More

How to Proactively Protect Your Organization’s High-Value Targets

Cybercriminals are always looking for ways to exploit the exposed personal data of high-value targets to breach companies. High-value targets (HVTs) are those individuals within an organization who have access to sensitive information or assets and have the potential to... Read More

Human Element Remains Key Factor in Cybersecurity: The 2023 Verizon DBIR Report and VanishID’s Global Threat Intelligence Findings

The spotlight in the fight against cybercrime continues to be an often overlooked yet pivotal factor – the human element. A profound understanding of this dimension is vital for safeguarding digital ecosystems, and the recently published 2023 Verizon Data Breach... Read More

VanishID joins the Tidal Product Registry™

We all know that the cybersecurity vendor landscape is extensive and looks complex. Although there is a gap in cybersecurity talent worldwide, there’s certainly no lack of products in the marketplace that provide defenders with threat visibility and security controls.... Read More

Keeping criminals from exploiting personally identifiable information

As specialists in human attack surface protection, we at VanishID know all too well the importance of preventing the exploitation of exposed personally identifiable information (PII) by cyber criminals. While we handle this problem for enterprises, individuals need resources to... Read More

Threat-Informed Defense for Human Attack Surface: Mapping Threat Intelligence to Target Intelligence

The exploitation of human attack surface data and a crucial intelligence gap According to Verizon’s 2022 DBIR report, stolen passwords and phishing were the top two techniques used by threat actors last year, accounting for around 70% of all analyzed... Read More

The rising threat of credential compromise and how companies can safeguard against this attack vector

Compromised employee credentials are a major threat to any organization’s cyber security. According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report, compromised credentials were the single largest source of breaches, accounting for nearly half of them. By taking the right proactive... Read More

CEO fraud: Protecting executives protects everyone

Cybercriminals do what they do for money. According to the 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 96% of data breaches were caused by external actors motivated by financial or personal gain. In order to maximize their return on investment, these cybercriminals take... Read More

Your digital footprint: It’s bigger than you realize

Every day, people follow a set of digital routines. Some people read the news online while drinking their morning coffee. Others check their work email from their smartphone. Still others log into social media to see what’s going on with... Read More

VanishID and SLNT: Protecting your organization’s people from compromise by safeguarding their personal information

Exploitation through easily accessible sensitive personal information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. It’s how nearly all cyber-attacks begin and is at the root of all manner of human and organizational compromise. In this article,... Read More

Just a little bit of exposed personal data can go a long way for a hacker

Hackers today use our exposed personal data against us. More than 90% of the time, cyberattacks are specifically crafted from users’ public data. To a hacker and to cyber specialists in general, this exposed, publicly available information is known as... Read More

For Lapsus$ social engineers, the attack vector is dealer’s choice

By Matt Polak, CEO of VanishID Two weeks ago, at a closed meeting of cyber leaders focused on emerging threats, the group agreed that somewhere between “most” and “100%” of cyber incidents plaguing their organizations pivoted on social engineering. That’s no... Read More

Think like a hacker to stop attacks before they strike

By Matt Polak, CEO of VanishID Cyber threat intelligence indicates that there is a high probability of digital retaliation against Western companies and governments that have supported Ukraine or distanced from Russia. Russia has validated this intelligence and their cyberwar strategy is evident:... Read More

How to sharpen your corporate social media policy for today’s threats

Using social media is, without a doubt, one of the most popular online activities that internet users engage in. Businesses have also discovered how to leverage social media to create opportunities for their brands. However, the use of these platforms... Read More

An ocean of data…and of ears

How much data is produced every day? A quick Google search will tell you the current estimate stands at 2.5 quintillion bytes. For those of us that don’t know the difference between our zettabytes and yottabytes, that’s 2.5 followed by... Read More

Cybercrime awareness is no longer enough to reduce risk

People’s perceptions have changed. Not so long ago we thought nothing of kids playing outside all day alone, unchaperoned visits to a friend’s house, walking to school alone – the list goes on. But as times have changed, we have... Read More

Are we thinking about Surveillance Capitalism the right way?

I recently purchased a greenhouse from a well-known catalogue retailer – now I’m swamped with Google and Facebook ads for greenhouse accessories and all manner of gardening paraphernalia. Ever wonder why this happens? The answer is that our data is... Read More

How much control have we given up just to enjoy the digital life?

We all enjoy life in the digital age and the Internet provides us connectivity, efficiency and fun. By submitting some of our personal data into online interfaces, we enjoy significant benefits in the form of services tailored to our needs;... Read More

Cybersecurity is a new HR benefit

Cybersecurity has traditionally been seen as a job for IT departments – and most employees assume that cybersecurity is simply a technical issue. But an examination of current threat types shows that social engineering attacks on employees is now a... Read More

Social engineering: Opportunity makes the thief

It is understandable that, when cybercrime happens to you, you can feel like you were targeted. And you certainly might be correct. However, more often than not, you weren’t originally the target at all. You just provided the best opportunity... Read More

Psychology is the social engineer’s best friend

Social engineering cyber-attacks have rocketed to the forefront of cyber-security risk and have wreaked havoc on large and small companies alike. Just like a Renaissance actor drawn to Shakespeare’s genius work, the modern social engineer is attracted to the ever-growing... Read More

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Think like a hacker to stop attacks before they strike

Cybercrime awareness is no longer enough to reduce risk

Cybersecurity is a new HR benefit

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