In this blog, we’ll take a deep dive into the grandparent scam and explore how you can protect yourself and your family members from these types of threats.

The loosening of pandemic related restrictions such as social distancing means that the occasional after work get together with colleagues is now back in order, and folks that haven’t seen each other in a long time are eager to celebrate. Employees who work with sensitive data are entrusted to keep that data safe and have a responsibility to safeguard that information. But what happens when they are invited out after work?

Whether the ideal work environment is at a café, a library, a local park or your kitchen table, there are easy ways to protect the privacy of your work and allow you the flexibility to work from almost anywhere. So, what can your organization do to promote cyber best practices for hybrid and remote workers?

Welcome back to Part 5 of the Cyber True Crime series The Affiliate. In past blogs, we covered the history of NetWalker, how a RaaS ransomware gang functions, how Sebastien Vachon Desjardins, or the Affiliate, attempted to hide his criminal activity through international servers and in our last blog the organizations he targeted in his attacks. In this installment, we’ll begin to unravel how the FBI began tracking the Affiliate down through the international servers and his multiple email addresses.

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