The Tampa Bay Business Journal published an interview with FBI Special Agent Lawrence Wolfenden. Wolfenden is a 25-year veteran of the FBI, the lead agency for investigating cyber attacks ...
Microsoft recently came across a threat that uses social engineering but delivers a different payload than the usual Office document with macros. Its primary purpose is to change a user’s ...
Larry Abrams at Bleepingcomputer reported on a new strain with a few unusual features: "A new ransomware that pretends to be from a fake organization called the Central Security Treatment ...
The Smoking Gun reported: "SEPTEMBER 2--The FBI’s Hillary Clinton investigation turned up evidence that her e-mail accounts were targeted in multiple “spear phishing” attacks, one of ...
Want someone's credentials? Just social engineer them. Phishing is still responsible for 91% of data breaches and has been for the last few years. A Russian cyber mafia has created a ...
KnowBe4 has been running the HackBusters site for a few years now, providing you with trending IT security news. We are expanding it and have launched a new exciting online community! You ...
Earlier in August, one of the world's largest cable manufacturers Leoni AG publicly confessed that it had fallen victim to a classic CEO Fraud attack that has cost the company a whopping ...
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that "A Russian hacking group linked to a series of computer intrusions at the Democratic National Committee and other organizations is now ...
KnowBe4's Templates Mistress Katie has added two new categories to the System Templates: 1) SCAM OF THE WEEK - this will act as an optional weekly newsletter for you to send to your ...
So I get the Andreessen Horowitz newsletter. It has a topic called "Security is a protoscience (and more on 'so you want to work in security') - Michal Zalewski" I'm intrigued so I click ...
Earlier this week today we assisted several companies that were hit by ransomware. Although companies and organizations hit by ransomware can usually pinpoint the source or employee ...
Several days ago we posted about a new ransomware campaign pushing Cerber through malicious ZIP files attached to voicemail-themed phishing emails. Fast on the heels of that campaign ...
One of our customers received the following email today. It's a clear extortion attempt, they are threatening to execute a combined DDoS and Cerber ransomware attack. These bad guys claim ...
Don't play voicemail messages from suspicious sources. Example displayed in MS Outlook. Image credit: SANS ISC.
CyberheistNews Subscriber Stuart Sanders sent me this: "A friend of mine in Melbourne Australia has been whacked by several crypto attacks on his clients in the last week. He supports ...
A new report by Check Point software's researchers showed that Cerber's Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) affiliate program is a success with more than 160 participants at current count, and ...
REUTERS just reported that the Clinton charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its network after seeing indications they might have been hacked by Russians, ...
