Organizations, such as credit unions, send and receive thousandsof emails, messages, and files weekly, vehicles that cybercriminalshitchhike upon – sometimes using weaponized PDFs – toinfiltrate systems and steal personal information.

To combat these threats Campbell, Calif.-based cyberfrauddefense firm Barracuda Networks introduced a free, global advisoryplatform that it said offers detailed real-time threat intelligenceand security risk information to help organizations, includingcredit unions and banks, consumers and ITprofessionals remain aware of current global cyberthreats.

Barracuda Security Insight works by analyzing large volumes ofglobal threat intelligence from several sources and presents thisin the form of easy to read threat trends, detailed information onattack campaigns and an aggregated threat score.