The Growing Risk of Email Compromise for Financial Services Firms

Financial services have always been attractive to cybercriminals, but in 2019 the attacks have become more subtle, more patient, and much harder to detect. Instead of going after bank networks head-on, attackers are shifting their strategy and focusing on email accounts — especially those belonging to executives, branch managers, underwriters, and employees involved in wire transfers. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is now one of the most financially damaging threats facing banks,...



Why You Need Endpoint Security Beyond Traditional Antivirus

For years, antivirus was the first and sometimes only line of defense for most organizations. Install a lightweight AV agent, let it update signatures, and trust that it will stop anything malicious. But now, that model simply doesn’t work anymore. Why traditional antivirus is failing Attackers started figuring out years ago that signature-based tools were easy to bypass. Modern threats: don’t need to drop a malicious file operate directly in memory use legitimate...



Municipalities Are Becoming Cyber Targets - Here’s Why

City governments, county offices, and local utilities have become some of the most frequent victims of cyberattacks. From ransomware outbreaks shutting down police systems to billing departments going offline for days, the trend is no longer isolated — it’s nationwide. Why attackers are focusing on municipalities A few factors make cities attractive targets: Legacy systems that are difficult to update Many municipalities run 10–20-year-old software that wasn’t built...