The J2 Cyber Security Centre team and Technical team had numerous requests to review if there was an issue as to why they were receiving these. These types of emails are targeted at generic accounts such as info@, contact and in some instances to direct email accounts.

info@, contact and in some instances to direct email accounts.

In order to make sure that you do not become a victim we can provide further analysis of this attempt. The attack starts with an email stating that you have failed delivery messages waiting to retrieved.

We detected that these mails came from known senders that regularly communicated with the recipient so the recipient would normally look at these as trusted senders or would be added to company whitelisting. It also points to 3^rd party compromise.

The email contains a link to retrieve these messages now, after clicking on the link it will ask you to input your mailbox credentials.

Over the past week we have seen increased Phishing attempts that look as real as ever. The J2 Cyber Security Centre team had countless requests to release these attachments. This was because the users were expecting these statements as they usually receive them around this time of the month.

Over the past few weeks J2 CSC malware and threat analysis have seen multiple methods to introduce malicious content, exploits and phishing throughout our customer base which were detected and stopped using various tools at our disposal.

Current cybersecurity response frameworks are largely inadequate in terms of rising up to meet the demands of emerging threats and cyber programs. They often find themselves developed independently of business continuity and their requirements and operated in silos which in itself is a massive risk. With the rise of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, that are by their very nature insidious, are capable of crippling your business and permanently destroying IT systems at a whim.