The Graphus Blog

Our team has been working hard to constantly improve the Graphus® product and our latest release is another example of their excellent work! We are excited to announce that on July 4th, we had a new product release. This release focused primarily on the user interface and mobile compatibility. The new UI is cleaner and better represents […]

Taking a look back at the first six months of 2018, there have been many significant social engineering attacks. Below are some of the worst confirmed social engineering attacks during the first half of this year. Florida’s Agency for Health Care AdministrationMonth: January 2018Attack Type: PhishingImpact: 30,000 records exposed In November of 2017 an employee […]

Have you implemented DMARC but still experiencing successful cyber attacks? We’ve previously written about why DMARC is not enough when it comes to protecting your organization. This post is going to provide an example of where DMARC failed but Graphus® detected a malicious attack. As discussed in our previous post, DMARC is an email-validation system designed to […]

Attackers are taking advantage of our hurried up, multi-tasking, “I needed that yesterday!” way of life. Today, like many days, Graphus® detected a sophisticated, targeted phishing campaign against one of our clients. The attacker sent these phishing attacks first thing in the morning when people are just opening up their inboxes and are inundated with the […]

In a recently published report from Gartner, titled Fighting Phishing – 2020 Foresight, the authors, Peter Firstbrook and Neil Wynne, detail the challenges organizations face and also the required solutions needed to fight phishing and social engineering attacks. The authors discuss how the more recent influx of phishing attacks have caught many anti-spam and secure […]

On a daily basis we are reading about a new cyber attack against a financial services organization – and this is no surprise as financial services is the number one industry for cybercriminals to target for the second year in a row. From The National Bank of Blacksburg which experienced two phishing attacks in eight […]

According to Kaspersky Lab’s Spam and Phishing Q2 2018 report, over one third (35.7%) of all phishing attacks targeted financial services organizations – and the Fortune 500 aren’t the only targets. As we’ve written about before, small to medium sized financial service organizations are hit the hardest. The FBI recently shared a private alert with […]

The manufacturing industry has invested heavily in cybersecurity the last few years, however, manufacturers still seem to be unsure how well they are protected, according to Deloitte’s Center for Industry Insights. This is likely due to the fact that manufacturers are hit hard with cyber attacks on a daily basis and in many cases don’t […]

As we previously discussed, attacks against manufacturers are on the rise and not showing any signs of slowing down. The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that social engineering attacks are the preferred method for these cybercriminals as 93% of all reported security breaches are a result from some form of phishing. So why […]

Barkley recently reported that SMBs are seeing an increase in cyber attacks in 2018. They conducted a survey of 100 IT and security professionals and here are some of the key findings; 57% saw an increase in attacks over the last 12 months Two-thirds said the attacks are becoming more sophisticated 36% don’t expect their […]