FortiGuard Labs Threat Research
FortiGuard Labs threat research uncovered email scammers and black market criminals offering fake vaccine passports. Read our threat blog to find out more about these fake lures.
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There are basically two kinds of threats organizations and users face today: the ones that security vendors and threat researchers know about, and those they don’t. The ones we know about get vendor patches, signatures are updated across a variety of security tools in order to detect them, and behaviors are documented in order to detect and disrupt the more sophisticated ones. People who are affected by these sorts of attacks usually either don’t have the right security tools deployed in the right places, or they aren’t practicing adequate cyber hygiene.
It seems like every season has an angle that hackers and scammers use to prey on unsuspecting individuals. We just managed to make it through the holiday season and now we are besieged with people trying to take advantage of us during tax season.
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The cybercriminal marketplace is adept at adopting the latest advances in areas such as artificial intelligence to create more effective attacks. We anticipate this trend to accelerate into 2018, enabling the destructive trends mentioned in this blog.