Tag: PhaaS
Email security under siege: How MSPs can win the war against phishing
Phishing attacks are no longer the clumsy attempts of the past. They’re evolving at an alarming rate, forcing managed service providers (MSPs) to radically adapt their email security strategies to protect their customers effectively. Automated phishing tools, the weaponization of...
Email Threat Radar – April 2025
In this edition of the Email Threat Radar, Barracuda threat analysts highlight several notable email-based threats identified over the past month. These threats were designed to evade detection and increase the chances of success, and they targeted organizations around the...
Threat Spotlight: A million PhaaS attacks in two months
The first few months of 2025 saw a massive spike in phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) attacks targeting organizations around the world, with more than a million attacks detected by Barracuda systems in January and February. The attacks were powered by several leading...
“Script Kiddies” get hacked—what it means about the cybercrime economy
The discovery of a Trojan disguised as software to help low-skill hackers build XWorm RAT malware indicates the maturity and complexity of the thriving cybercrime economy—and it reminds us that there’s no honor among thieves. Imagine that you are an ambitious...
XDR roundup 2024: Ransomware rises fourfold in a year of complex threats
In 2024, Barracuda Managed XDR logged many trillions of IT events to identify the critical security threats targeting organizations and neutralize malicious activity. Threat analysts in Barracuda Managed XDR’s Security Operations Center (SOC) have drawn on this unique dataset to highlight the...
Threat Spotlight: Tycoon 2FA phishing kit updated to evade inspection
This Threat Spotlight sheds light on the Tycoon multi-factor authentication phishing kit and the tactics it uses to evade protection solutions. Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) provides attackers with advanced toolsets and templates that enable them to quickly deploy phishing campaigns. The rapid...
