Cyber threats
Understand how threat actors exploit vulnerabilities. Protect your business with expert tips and effective cyber-attack prevention strategies.
Phishing, smishing, and vishing: what's the difference?
Phishing, smishing, and vishing use persuasion and deception to convince targets to take risky actions. But while these cyber...
Spam vs. phishing: what is the difference?
Data breaches often start in email inboxes. Users open messages that seem innocent. They read the contents, click links, and ...
Spear phishing vs. phishing: what’s the difference?
Phishing attacks use emails, phone calls, and text messages to convince targets to hand over data or download malware. Spear ...
Spoofing vs. phishing: what’s the difference?
Spoofing and phishing are both cyber attacks that rely on deception to fool victims. Spoofing attacks create fake website URL...
Malware vs. virus: what’s the difference?
Malware is a general term for malicious software. A virus is a specific form of malware that replicates across networks and i...
Malware vs. ransomware: what’s the difference?
Malware refers to malicious software designed to infect and damage target systems. Ransomware is a dangerous malware variant ...
What is a Trojan horse virus?
After a fruitless ten-year siege, the Greeks resorted to building a large wooden horse, filling it with the elite force, and ...
What is social engineering?
Cybercriminals don’t always rely on complex code or technical exploits—increasingly, they target people. And for businesses, ...
What is a zero-day attack?
A few lines of poorly written code can open the door for cybercriminals. Zero-day attacks ruthlessly target code flaws in pop...
What is a data leak?
Data leaks are on the rise. In 2020, 1,108 data breaches in the USA affected 310 million individuals. In 2024, 3,158 data com...
What is an evil twin attack?
Imagine this: you’re at your favorite café, catching up on emails. You spot a Wi-Fi network with the same name as the one you...
What is a DDoS attack?
DDoS attacks overwhelm targets with massive DNS, HTTP, UDP, ICMP, and other protocol traffic. In worst-case scenarios, networ...