Cybersecurity Awareness Resources

Leverage our Cyber Awareness training to improve exposure to cybersecurity concepts, terminology, and activities associated with implementing cybersecurity best practices.

Prepare for the next wave of attacks such as:

⚠️ Email Phishing

⚠️ Smishing (SMS Phishing)

⚠️ Executive Spear Phishing 

and many more attack vectors...

Our training compliance program provides ongoing staff cybersecurity awareness development utilizing current cybersecurity news events, informative “best practice” tips and on-demand access to security educational material.

Payment phishing scams are cleaning out bank accounts of businesses! Attackers are successfully deceiving individuals and businesses into providing sensitive information such as credit card or bank account numbers.  

Recently reported payment phishing scams are utilizing:

⚠️ Attackers use email Sender display name impersonation using a well-known brand or service provider.

⚠️ Email subject lines conveying a sense of urgency such as “Action Required” or “Final Notice” or “Overdue”.

⚠️ Messages contain legitimate company branding to further the scams chance of success and bypassing security training practices.

🚨Payment Phishing scams can also occur through other methods like vishing (voice phishing over the phone) and smishing (phishing through SMS text messages).🚨

✅ It's crucial to stay alert about potential phishing threats and always double-check the correspondence you receive.
 

 As a type of social engineering attack, scareware relies on the manipulation of the weakest link of cybersecurity, people. Scareware attackers uses aggressive and persistent tactics to manipulate users to believe they have a serious problem with their device, or a compromised account. 

Scareware can be very profitable for attackers because they often charge high fees for their fake software or services or steal valuable personal and financial information.  The most effective way to mitigate the risk of scareware is to conduct routine awareness training for employees. 

Use Riskigy Cybersecurity & Tech Advisors newsletters and alerts to keep employees aware of current cybersecurity threats.   

Learn how to identify scareware share your knowledge with colleagues, friends and family to be #cyberaware #cybersmart  

 The Riskigy cybersecurity experts know Pretexting attacks can be challenging to identify as they rely on manipulation and deception. There are certain signs and precautions you can take to identify and protect yourself from pretexting attacks.  

⚠️  Hackers use pretexting as a technique in social engineering attacks to manipulate individuals and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems. They employ various strategies to deceive their victims and create a sense of trust and credibility.   

⚠️ Pretexting attacks can be challenging to identify as they rely on psychological manipulation and deception. However, there are certain signs and precautions you can take to identify and protect yourself from pretexting attacks.  

Our cybersecurity awareness training video provides tips and precautions for being skeptical, helping prevent falling victim to pretexting attacks.    

Callback phishing can bypass various email security measures, including email spam filters, as it does not contain hyperlinks or attachments often used by other phishing attacks. Another reason for its success is the lack of awareness among individuals and organizations. Callback phishing is a relatively new technique in the realm of phishing attacks, and many individuals and organizations have not taken appropriate measures to protect themselves against it. 

⚠️ What is Callback Phishing?

⚠️ How to Identify a Callback Attack 

⚠️ Who is Behind Callback Phishing? 

 Callback phishing poses a low risk of detection, is cheap to execute, and can generate results quickly, making it a way for even amateur ransomware groups to gain initial access to the networks of target organizations.  

Our cybersecurity awareness training video provides tips and precautions for being skeptical, helping prevent falling victim to cyber attacks.