This Is the Attack That Read Your Emails for Six Weeks Before Anyone Knew Business email compromise does not break in. It gets comfortable and waits, and insurance agencies are exactly the kind of business it waits inside. Six weeks ago, an attacker got access to a mailbox at an insurance agency. Not a large
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Your Agency Is Exactly the Size Attackers Are Looking For Assuming you are too small to be hit by a cyber attack is putting you at risk. Cyber attacks on small insurance agencies are not the exception attackers make — they are the business model. I have seen it before: people who thought they were
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The three attacks hitting insurance agencies most often do not trigger antivirus. The agency had antivirus on every device. Updated, active, reporting clean. The breach ran for 4 weeks before anyone knew it had started. What Antivirus Watches Antivirus scans files. When something malicious attempts to execute on a device, it flags it. That is
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Most agencies think about cybersecurity as something they set up once and move on from. A tool gets installed. A password gets changed. A box gets checked. That assumption is exactly what attackers are counting on. CyberFin Co-founder and President Daniel Metcalf was recently featured in a SafetyDetectives expert roundup titled “The Most Overlooked Cybersecurity
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