10 Dos and Don’ts for Sustainable Security Awareness in Your Organization.
"Cyberattacks: The ever-growing danger from the web
The number, scope, and complexity of cyberattacks on individuals and organizations has continued to grow in recent years.
The Risk Barometer of Allianz insurance has for years ranked cybercrime as one of the greatest risks to businesses worldwide. According to estimates, the damages amount to billions of US dollars every year.
After all, cyberattacks don’t just harm organizations’ reputation, but result in costly disruptions to business or demands for ransom following attacks with extortion software known as ransomware. 9 out of 10 cyberattacks start with the human factor, and phishing is still one of the most popular attack tactics by far. Complex social engineering methods like spear phishing and dynamite phishing are becoming more common in particular (see infobox on p. 7). Cybercriminals use psychological tactics and manipulate recipients’ emotions in order to achieve their aims.
This is how the Trojan and “King of Malware” Emotet collected email histories via infected systems in order to automatically generate and disseminate further phishing emails, despite being temporarily suppressed in 2021.
Most conventional spam filters cannot accurately identify the falsified, harmful email conversations. The phishing emails end up in employee inboxes, and this is where they begin to wreak havoc."
