Once considered merely a marketing issue, brand protection has transformed into a strategic imperative. In today’s global digital arena, brand protection must contend with a surge of adversarial methods, including AI-driven impersonation, social phishing, and counterfeit marketplaces.The consequences of neglecting brand protection are significant: Businesses risk direct financial losses,...

A newly observed phishing campaign discovered by the Fortra Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE) team is leveraging thousands of AI‑generated websites, via legitimate AI/Automation provider ActiveCampaign. Read on.

Executive SummaryThe Fortra Intelligence and Research (FIRE) team has discovered and aided in the mitigation of a malware campaign delivering an open-source cryptocurrency miner, known as XMRig. This campaign stands out to security researchers because cryptojacking or malicious cryptocurrency mining operations rarely target enterprise environments with these methods, and more frequently focus on...

What Is Vulnerability Management Automation? At its core, vulnerability management (VM) is the continuous process of scanning an organization’s digital environment for exploitable weaknesses that could serve as entry points for cyberattacks, reporting and evaluating the findings, and remediating systems to remove detected weaknesses. For vulnerability...