And yes, as we predicted, there are now phishing attacks that mimic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach notifications. The breach has expanded to millions more records. It ...
As of last Tuesday, Facebook has switched on person-to-person (P2P) payments for users in the US to "instant-message" money to their friends, using the debit cards connected to their bank ...
Bromium is a company with a new antivirus mousetrap, so it will try to make old mousetraps look, well... old. However, they do point out correctly that traditional antivirus is starting ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #26 June 30, 2015 FBI Alert: Latest CryptoWall Ransomware Damage More Than $18 Million The latest version 3.0 of CryptoWall, descendant of the infamous CryptoLocker, ...
It is now urgent to patch any Adobe Flash Player machines in your network. Why? There is an exploit kit called Magnitude that now uses a recently patched Flash zero-day vulnerability. An ...
The latest version 3.0 of CryptoWall, descendant of the infamous CryptoLocker, is the most advanced and most damaging ransomware in the wild at the moment, specifically targeting U.S. ...
Clad in a blue suit and conservative necktie, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick no longer looks the part of the precocious teen who started hacking into computer systems while ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #25 June 23, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Spoofed CEO Money Transfer Request Heads-up, there is a real wave of this scam going on at the moment. I would copy and paste ...
Cyber-criminals have social engineered magazine publisher Bonnier Group out of at least $1.5m after hacking the CEO’s email. The total damage could be as much as $3.0 million. Bonnier ...
Now here is a real IT Horror Story. A brand new KnowBe4 customer which had not yet trained their employees decided to test their staff with one of the new templates we had just released.
You may not be aware that there is a scale of seven deadly vices connected to social engineering (SE). The deadliest SE attacks are the ones that have the highest success rates, often ...
A new report by Trustwave shows some stunning numbers. You would almost come to the conclusion you are in the wrong business. They looked at how much of an investment a cybercriminal ...
LastPass, the popular online password management service has been hacked and data was stolen, including the password hints, which is why you need to be alert for scams trying to exploit ...
CyberheistNews Vol 5 #24 June 16, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Resume Ransomware The SANS InfoSec Forums noted that since Monday May 25th new CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware attacks started, using ...
Familiar with SpiceWorks? It's the world's largest IT Admin community. One user wrote the 392nd entry in their Spotlight on IT. This is the story. There is a link at the end to the ...
The recent U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management hack is getting worse by the day. In Saturday's Wall Street Journal they revealed that apart from more than 4 million personal ...
The SANS InfoSec Forums noted that since Monday May 25th a new version of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware started, using both malicious spam and the Angler exploit kit (EK). The attack wave has ...
CyberheistNews Vol 5 #23 June 9, 2015 How The NSA Killed Internet Security in 1978 & Scam Of The Week Need to get ammo for your IT security budget, but the people holding the purse ...
Researchers at Check Point discovered a new Russian ransomware strain that allows the victim to communicate with the cybercriminals who are open to providing discounts to decrypt the ...
Here is a very short summary of Internet security which explains why the current version of the Internet is not secure. It was not built securely from day one because the NSA objected to ...
