Cybersecurity

It’s a statistic that sends a shiver down the backs of SME owners, managers and employees.  

According to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) cost US businesses more than $3 billion last year.

This makes it one of the most financially damaging cybercrimes on record. 

AI has made these attacks harder to detect. The question for AP teams is no longer whether they can identify suspicious requests. It is whether the processes around payments make fraud difficult regardless of how convincing it looks.… Read the rest

You click a link, sign in, approve the MFA prompt, and get on with your day. Completely unaware that someone else just logged into your account at the same moment.

That scenario surprises many businesses, particularly those that rely on multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect cloud accounts. But this is exactly how Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing attacks work. 

Rather than stealing passwords for later use, these attacks silently hijack an already-authenticated session in real time.

MFA remains a core control, and getting it implemented correctly is still a critical first step for any business. … Read the rest

MFA is a strong front-door lock. But it’s not the only thing that decides whether someone can get in.

After you sign in, your browser keeps you logged in using a session token (often stored as a cookie). It’s the digital version of a wristband at an event: once you’ve been checked, the wristband proves you belong there. If an attacker steals that wristband, they may not need to beat your MFA prompt at all.

That’s the core of session cookie hijacking.… Read the rest

Browser add-ons have a funny reputation. They feel “small”. A quick install. A tiny productivity boost. A harmless little helper that lives in your toolbar.

But in practice, a browser extension is more like a micro-SaaS vendor sitting inside your browser session. It can see what you see, interact with the pages you open, and sometimes access the same cloud apps your business runs on all day.

That’s why a browser extension security check matters. 

Not because every extension is bad, but because it only takes one over-permissioned add-on or one bad update to turn “helpful” into exposure.… Read the rest