Security News > 2022 > May > Keeping pace with emerging threats: The roundup

Egress issued its mid-year 2022 threat report offering details of emerging threats along with insights about protecting employees, customers, and businesses from these specific cyberattacks.

The report provides comprehensive details about threats associated with scam cryptocurrency donations to war-torn Ukraine, email phishing attacks using LinkedIn to target jobseekers, a rise in sextortion phishing emails and zero-day exploits circulating on the dark web, targeting electronic voters as well as Facebook and Gmail users.

"To succeed, these attacks must bypass email defences and get a person to act, which relies on engendering emotional reactions to the needs of refugees and children," explained Jack Chapman, VP of Threat Intelligence at Egress.

"We advise organizations to examine their current anti-phishing security stack to ensure they have intelligent controls that engage and warn the user of the threat. Meanwhile, individuals should take extreme caution when reading notification emails that request them to click on a hyperlink, particularly on mobile devices."

New threats target electronic voters, Facebook, and Gmail users.

"Social media accounts contain a host of information about people, such as date of birth, geographic locations, mother's surname, and more. Our advice is to stay on top of the latest threats by keeping up with advice from your threat intelligence network."

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