Coveware’s Ransomware Attacks Report for Q4 2020

🛍️ Marks & Spencer Cyberattack: A Wake-Up Call for Retailers

🔐 The recent cyber incident at M&S disrupted online orders and in-store services, highlighting vulnerabilities in retail cybersecurity.

💳 Customers faced issues with contactless payments and gift card transactions, emphasizing the need for robust digital defenses.

📉 The financial impact is significant, with potential losses from suspended online sales and diminished customer trust.

🛡️ Retailers must prioritize comprehensive cybersecurity strategies that include technological safeguards and employee training.

💡 AUMINT.io’s Trident platform offers:

Advanced threat detection to identify and mitigate risks.

Continuous employee training to recognize and respond to threats.

Incident response planning to ensure business continuity.

📈 Strengthen your organization’s cybersecurity posture.

👉 Schedule your free strategy session with AUMINT.io now and protect your business from cyber threats.

#CyberSecurity #RetailSecurity #M&S #AUMINT #CISO

🌍 Operational Technology Attacks Aren’t Local – They’re Global Signals

🌐 When Ukraine loses heat, China lurks in U.S. power grids, and EU regulators tighten laws, it’s not coincidence.

🧠 It’s a wake-up call for boards to globalize their security thinking.

📊 Risk isn’t just enterprise-level. It’s geopolitical.

🛡️ AUMINT.io helps leadership teams model risk from Operational Technology to nation-level impact.

📆 Book your global risk review: https://calendly.com/aumint/aumint-intro

💬 What international Operational Technology threats are you watching? 👇

🔎 #GlobalCyberRisk #BoardLeadership #Operational TechnologyThreats #AUMINT

⚠️ DORA Is Live – And Fintechs Can’t Afford to Ignore It

💣 The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) now mandates financial firms to prove cyber resilience
🔐 But most fintechs still overlook their #1 vulnerability – people
📩 Phishing, smishing, social engineering – these are the real gaps attackers exploit
📉 DORA doesn’t just demand tech defenses. It demands human awareness

🚫 Training once a year won’t cut it
📊 AUMINT.io’s Trident platform personalizes simulations to real roles, threat types, and evolving tactics
📈 And gives leaders real-time dashboards to track readiness and satisfy regulators

💥 Don’t let one click break your compliance, your continuity, or your customer trust

👉 Book your DORA strategy call now – resilience starts with your people

#FintechSecurity #DORACompliance #HumanRisk #CyberResilience #OperationalResilience #TridentByAUMINT #RegTech #Infosec #FintechCISOs

🧩 Operational Technology Security Without Segmentation? That’s a Door Left Wide Open.

🚪 Hackers broke into Lviv’s heating utility via exposed IT – then walked right into Operational Technology.

🌡️ 600 buildings lost heat for 2 days. No segmentation. No detection.

🔍 That’s not bad luck – that’s bad governance.

💡 Boards must prioritize secure architecture – with Operational Technology/IT segmentation baked in.

🛡️ AUMINT.io delivers secure-by-design playbooks and simulations tailored for directors.

📆 Get your playbook: https://calendly.com/aumint/aumint-intro

💬 Ever seen an Operational Technology disaster coming from miles away? Tell us how 👇

🔎 #CyberArchitecture #BoardResilience #AUMINT

🤖 AI-Powered Cybercrime Is Booming – But Guess What’s Still Failing?

🎯 It’s not your firewalls – it’s your people
🧠 AI-fueled phishing, deepfakes, and social engineering attacks are smarter, faster, and almost impossible to spot
📩 Employees are being tricked by AI-generated emails, fake voices, and deceptive bots

🚫 Traditional training can’t keep up
🔐 AUMINT.io’s Trident platform delivers adaptive simulations personalized to your team’s real-world vulnerabilities
📈 And gives security leaders the live data they need to stay ahead of AI-driven deception

🔥 The weakest link can become your strongest defense – but only if you train for it

👉 Book your AI threat-readiness session now and make awareness your superpower

#CyberAwareness #AIThreats #SocialEngineering #TridentByAUMINT #SecurityTraining #HumanRisk #CISO #CyberResilience

🚨 WooCommerce Users Under Attack – Here’s How to Fight Back!

🚨 WooCommerce store owners are facing a dangerous new wave of fake security alerts.

🛑 These phishing scams aren’t just clever – they’re engineered to exploit human instincts.

⚡ Attackers are sending urgent fake messages designed to make you panic and click.

🎯 One wrong click gives them instant access to your site, customer data, and finances!

💣 It’s not just about software vulnerabilities – it’s about human vulnerabilities.

🔒 Businesses that don’t train their people against social engineering are sitting ducks.

👉 At AUMINT.io, we specialize in hardening the human firewall with real-world simulations and personalized awareness training.

🛡️ Don’t wait for attackers to expose your blind spots.

🛡️ Get proactive and protect your store before it’s too late.

👉 Claim your FREE Cyber Surface Assessment today – find out where you’re exposed!

What’s your biggest fear about cybersecurity right now? Let’s talk 👇

#CyberSecurity #FraudPrevention #WooCommerce #EcommerceSecurity #Phishing #BusinessOwners #SMBs #CISO #CyberAwareness #AUMINT #HumanFirewall #CyberResilience

🖥️ Zoom Hijack? Yes – Attackers Can Take Over Without a Click

🎯 A newly discovered Zoom vulnerability lets attackers remotely take over shared screens
🕵️‍♂️ No links. No downloads. Just silent takeover during normal meetings
📉 This isn’t about malware – it’s about manipulating trust in live environments
🧠 Most teams won’t recognize it until it’s too late
⚠️ This attack preys on human behavior – distraction, routine, and false trust

🔐 AUMINT.io’s Trident simulates real-time threats inside tools like Zoom
🎯 Train your people to spot these tactics before they become victims
📊 We deliver not just awareness – but behavioral transformation

👉 Book a strategy session to bulletproof your people

#ZoomSecurity #SocialEngineering #RemoteWorkRisks #CyberAwareness #CISOAlert #SecurityTraining #HumanFirewall #SecurityCulture #AUMINTTrident #LiveSimulationTraining

💣 Malware Spiked 94% – Here’s What That Really Means

📈 Q4 2024 saw malware skyrocket – up 94%
📊 But the delivery method? Often social engineering – not brute force
👀 Malware is now hidden in fake IT requests, spoofed logins, even helpful-looking updates
😬 Employees are clicking… not because they’re careless – but because attackers are that convincing
🧠 This is a people issue, not just a tech one

🔐 AUMINT.io’s Trident simulates real-world malware delivery tactics
🎯 Then we train teams to recognize the traps before it’s too late

🛡️ Don’t just measure awareness – build real behavioral resilience

👉 Book a call to protect your people now

#MalwareSurge #HumanRisk #SocialEngineering #CyberAwareness #CISOInsights #PhishingDefense #SecurityCulture #HumanFirewall #CyberTraining #SecurityAwareness

🔐 Operational Technology Isn’t “IT’s Problem” Anymore

🧠 Operational Technology breaches begin in IT – but they end with physical disruption.

🏭 Power loss. Water tampering. Equipment malfunction.

📉 The line between cyber and physical is gone.

⚠️ That makes Operational Technology security a national safety issue – and a board imperative.

🛡️ AUMINT.io equips boardrooms with Operational Technology breach simulations and remediation roadmaps.

📆 See how it works: https://calendly.com/aumint/aumint-intro

💬 What cyber-physical convergence risks are you watching in 2025? 👇

🔎 #CyberPhysical #Operational TechnologySecurity #BoardLeadership #AUMINT

📱 This Is the New Phishing Frontier You’re Ignoring

🚨 SMS-based social engineering is rising – and it works
⚠️ It’s not just spam – it’s weaponized trust in real-time
🎭 Attackers impersonate CEOs and colleagues in urgent, emotional texts
🤯 No firewall or AI tool can block a person tricked into believing a lie
📉 The risk? One message = one mistake = one breach
🔍 AUMINT.io simulates these real threats to prepare your team the right way

📊 With Trident, we recreate smishing attacks and analyze how your people respond
📈 Then we turn insights into targeted awareness that hardens your human layer

💥 Want to see how your team would handle a CEO text trap?

👉 Book your strategy call now

#Smishing #SocialEngineering #HumanRisk #PhishingAwareness #CyberTraining #CISOInsights #SecurityAwareness #SecurityCulture #InfoSecLeadership #CyberResilience