Perception Point Blog Archive

Qakbot Malware: Insights Into an Excel 4.0 Macro Attack

In this campaign, the attacker conceals malicious payload by deeply embedding it within multiple types of content and using different evasion techniques. Perception Point's IR team found loopholes and was able to backtrack his steps to understand his techniques.

Shai Golderman, IR Team
Jun-21

An Insider’s View into Blocking Email Threats

The Importance of Blocking Crypto Viruses, Threats, and Attempted Phishing Attacks

Perception Point Marketing
Apr-21

Netflix Phishing Scams Rise by 250% in 3 Months

The Perception Point IR Team found a major increase (250%) in the number of Netflix Phishing scams this quarter compared to last quarter.

Perception Point Incident Response
Mar-21

‘CEO Fraud’ Phishing Kit on the Rise

The Perception Point IR Team recently uncovered a new CEO Fraud phishing kit that leverages Backblaze, a cloud-storage tool, to host fake Office 365 login pages.

Perception Point Marketing
Mar-21

Employee Security Training
Proven Not Enough

Train the machine—not just the employee. Hackers know that many companies rely on security employee training alone, so they’ve been upping their game to trick…

Dana Roth, Marketing Manager
Feb-21

Phishing Scams Hosted on Free Website and Form Building Tools Increases

With the abundance of free website building tools available, it’s easier than ever for attackers to mimic legitimate brands by building fake log-in pages. And that's exactly what's been happening.

Dana Roth, Marketing Manager
Feb-21

Default Email Security Not Secure Enough

The adoption of cloud email is increasing every year, with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 dominating. And now, a new report by Gartner noted that many clients have expressed dissatisfaction with default email security solutions, specifically citing Office 365.

Dana Roth, Marketing Manager
Jan-21

internal email security person typing on laptop

Don’t Forfeit Productivity for Secure Internal Email Communication

Gone are the days of running down the hall to ask an important question and get the answer immediately. Remote and hybrid workforces depend heavily…

Dana Roth, Marketing Manager
Jan-21

Slow Email Protection Software
Got You Down?

Protecting email is an absolute necessity to continuing business operations. Despite this necessity, however, many end-users find their email protection software takes too long to scan for threats.

Dana Roth, Marketing Manager
Jan-21

Zooming in on Zoom: Why is Zoom a Cybersecurity Risk?

Zoom is growing quickly, which is good and bad. Good because it makes it easy to work from home, and bad because it's a security risk. Once a log-in page is necessary (such as in Zoom)—a new loophole for stealing credentials is created.

Michael Calev, Director of Strategy
Jan-21

New Wave of Malicious
Excel 4.0 Macros

Excel 4.0 macros have been here for almost three decades, but this year, attackers have found new ways to weaponize them. It’s bad news for companies that still rely on this legitimate functionality.

Perception Point Research
Dec-20

standing shadow account takeover protection

Account Takeover Protection: A Real-life Example of an Email Attack Trend

A unique example of an Account Takeover (ATO): an “injected” email turns out to be an attempt to insert malware as part of a “normal” email correspondence. This is great evidence for the ultimate social engineering attack, showing how attackers are ever evolving, and that everyone needs account takeover protection.

Perception Point Incident Response
Dec-20

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