Security News > 2020 > November > This year’s biggest innovators? Hackers and cybercriminals. Again

At the same time as they have stepped into the breaches opened up by an increasingly diffused and corporate workforce, the bad guys have taken advantage of an almost universal thirst for information and reassurance with ever more creative spear phishing and whaling attacks.

By thinking like them before you start to fight back, which is what we'll be showing you how to do in our webcast "How I'd Attack You", on November 18 at 0900 PT. The Register's own one-man attack surface Tim Phillips will be joined by Dan Fein and Mariana Pereira of cyber defence specialists Darktrace.

They'll show how cyber crims have finessed their reconnaissance techniques, taking full advantage of email, social media and implicit profiling, to prepare the ground for highly targeted, and effective, attacks using fearware and payloadless emails.

If that's only increasing your own fear levels, don't worry, as they'll be talking you through the defensive techniques that can blunt the attackers' best efforts.

So you know they've learned a thing or two about how cybercriminals think and act.

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