Healthcare providers have recently been a major target for email scams. Between December 2020 and February 2021 alone, the number of phishing attacks targeting pharmacies and hospitals increased by a staggering 189%. Unfortunately, conventional phishing attacks aren’t your only cause for worry — your dental clinic could be at risk of falling victim to a business email compromise (BEC) scam too.

Cybercriminals are getting more creative in infecting computers with malware, and users must step up in order to protect their devices. To stay one step ahead of cybercriminals, you should learn more about their more insidious tricks such as watering hole attacks.

You’ve probably heard it said that not all hackers are dangerous. That’s true, of course. For instance, white hat hackers hack into a system to uncover vulnerabilities and boost its protection against cyberthreats. However, we won’t be talking about white hat hackers in this blog.

Popular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been suffering massive data breaches for a number of years now. If you wish to continue using these services, you need to tighten your social media privacy settings. Here are a few reminders and tips to help you secure your personal information on social media.

How much do you trust your employees when it comes to keeping your data safe? While you might trust them to some degree, you may have doubts about how well they adhere to cybersecurity best practices.

And you would be right — insider attacks are one of the biggest threats to business cybersecurity today.

Many small businesses today are at risk of losing their data and getting their systems taken over because of cyberattacks. In fact, according to the Verizon Business 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, almost a third of data breaches in 2020 involved small organizations.

While implementing cybersecurity solutions such as anti-malware programs and firewalls is crucial in mitigating the risk of attacks, it’s also important that these controls are regularly checked and tested. This way, weaknesses and vulnerabilities in network security can be uncovered and remedied before these could be exploited.

Cyberattacks on the healthcare sector are rising and becoming more sophisticated today, and big hospitals and small private clinics are both targets. Just in the past three years, more than 93% of healthcare companies have suffered a data breach. There has also been a 45% increase in cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations globally since November 2020.
Why do cybercriminals target the healthcare industry?
Cybercriminals target healthcare companies because they store large amounts of protected health information (PHI) such as medical records, Social Security numbers, credit card details, and other similar data.

Black Friday is just around the corner, and with most people likely to do their shopping online because of the pandemic, cybercriminals will have plenty of potential targets. So it’s important to be aware of common fraud and phishing tactics and ensure all your online transactions are adequately secured.

Out of all types of cyberattacks, phishing scams take the lead as the most common and most effective. In fact, they comprise 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks and impact 85% of both large and small organizations. This is why it pays to know how to spot a phishing attack, its potential effects, and what your business can do to curb them.