Every quarter, Fortra analyzes thousands of social media incidents to identify the top threats and trends plaguing organizations, their brands, and employees. Social media is a highly attractive environment to cyber attackers due to the large user base, constant flow of information, and the shift of younger generations relying more on social platforms for information instead of web searches. This...

The monthly Global BEC Insights Report from Fortra presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) employed by BEC threat actors. This report draws on extensive intelligence gathered from hundreds of active defense engagements conducted throughout the month. Key insights include geolocation data, attack volume, and the variety of scams, such as payroll diversion and advance fee fraud. The report also highlights the use of gift cards in scams, the requested amounts in wire transfer fraud, and the banks and webmail providers frequently targeted by attackers. These findings provide a critical understanding of the evolving BEC threat landscape.

IntroductionFortra has observed a rising trend in legitimate service abuse, with a significant volume of attacks targeting Cloudflare Pages. Workers.dev is a domain used by Cloudflare Workers’ deployment services, while Pages.dev is used by Cloudflare’s Pages platform that facilitates the development of web pages and sites. Fortra’s Suspicious Email Analysis (SEA) team has identified different...

Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.54.0 and FVM Agent 2.15 releases.Microsoft addressed 89 vulnerabilities in this release, including 4 rated as Critical and 51 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.This release also includes fixes for two vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed and exploited in the wild.CVE-2024-43451 NTLM Hash Disclosure Spoofing...

The monthly Global BEC Insights Report from Fortra presents a comprehensive analysis of the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) employed by BEC threat actors. This report draws on extensive intelligence gathered from hundreds of active defense engagements conducted throughout the month. Key insights include geolocation data, attack volume, and the variety of scams, such as payroll diversion and advance fee fraud. The report also highlights the use of gift cards in scams, the requested amounts in wire transfer fraud, and the banks and webmail providers frequently targeted by attackers. These findings provide a critical understanding of the evolving BEC threat landscape.

Discover the definition of proactive monitoring, examples of proactive monitoring and early indicators of issues, proactive monitoring best practices, and how to implement proactive monitoring.

Explore the threat of webshells—malicious scripts attackers use to control compromised web servers. Discover the different types of webshells and how they exploit vulnerabilities.