Cybersecurity Awareness Basics
How to avoid identity theft, frauds, scams and more. Click below for more information.
Read our latest Fraud Newsletter: Citizens Fraud Update, Summer 2024
Outpacing Threats
Fast Flux: A National Security Threat
Many networks have a gap in their defenses for detecting and blocking a malicious technique known as “fast flux.” This technique poses a significant threat to national security, enabling malicious cyber actors to consistently evade detection. Malicious cyber actors, including cybercriminals and nation-state actors, use fast flux to obfuscate the locations of malicious servers by rapidly changing Domain Name System (DNS) records. Additionally, they can create resilient, highly available command and control (C2) infrastructure, concealing their subsequent malicious operations. This resilient and fast changing infrastructure makes tracking and blocking malicious activities that use fast flux more difficult. (Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, 2025)
Cyberattacks Grow 40%, but Budgets Not Keeping Up
Has AI given attackers the upper hand? Offense has the advantage that they're not operating under ethical rules, whether they're state actors or others, they're not constrained. So, defenders need accurate data to know what's happening in their environment to be able to counter those attackers quickly, in real time, at massive scale. (Novinson, 2025)
Imposters at the Gate: Spotting Remote Employment Fraud Before It Crosses the Wire
Have you ever sat in an interview and felt that something wasn't quite right? Your intuition may have been closer to the truth than you realized.
A new kind of adversary has emerged, and they aren’t trying to break through your firewall; instead, they are logging in through your VPN using their freshly issued business credentials. (Orleans & Nelson, 2025)
NIST Updates Privacy Framework, Tying It to Recent Cybersecurity Guidelines
A draft update to the NIST Privacy Framework will enable organizations to use it seamlessly with the agency’s Cybersecurity Framework, which received its own update last year. Targeted changes to content and structure respond to stakeholder needs and make the document easier to use. NIST