Jerome Segura at MalwareBytes was the first to report about a phishing attack that uses a fake "Chrome Update" to trick end-users into installing ransomware on their workstation. So, I ...
Now this is a whole new wrinkle in criminal ransomware. Malicious hacker crews have started taking over whole websites, injecting some code to file-by-file first encrypt and then decrypt ...
Child Predator Phishing Scam Preys On Parents Fears Please send a link to this blog post to your friends and family right away?
Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Support Phishing Emails The scam is at least 15 years old if not more, but unfortunately this type of social engineering still works. Remind your users one more ...
The scam is at least 15 years old if not more, but unfortunately this type of social engineering still works. Remind your users one more time that emails like this can hit their inbox at ...
OK, Heads-up! Here is the deal. The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) two days ago warned about a new version of a man-in-the-middle scam that targets your CEO, CTO, CFO, ...
Scam Of The Week: ISIS Attack It is a mystery that bad guys have not jumped on this in higher volume. However, a major malware phishing campaign claiming ISIS attacks, has been found in ...
It is a mystery that bad guys have not jumped on this in higher volume. However, a major malware phishing campaign claiming ISIS attacks is out in the wild at the moment in Australia.
The next revelation about the Sony Picture hack: The NSA was already inside the North Korean's networks and could have warned Sony about the pending attack.
I've been looking forward to this one and I was not disappointed. If you like slow-burn high-tech thrillers please go see this movie in the theater because it is worth it. I give it an 8 ...
It's a well-known fact that employees are the weakest link in IT security. There is good news though! New research from our friends at Wombat Security Technologies and the Aberdeen Group ...
The AV-Test reported that they found 143 Million new malware samples in 2014 and 12 million new variants per month.
Scam Of The Week: Court Notice Email There is a current malware email campaign claiming to be from law firm 'Baker & McKenzie' that states you are scheduled to appear in court and ...
There is a new version of CryptoWall out in the wild that I have dubbed "Version 2.1" because it has some powerful new features. Researchers at Cisco's Talos group published an analysis ...
A few months ago, a company called LastLine Labs published some explosive data about antivirus products. They studied hundreds of thousands of pieces of malware for a year, and tracked ...
January 9, 2015 - CBS This Morning News ran an item about ransomware featuring Shawn Henry, former FBI executive assistant director and president of cyber security firm CrowdStrike ...
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Most small- and medium business owners think that they are not a target for cybercrime. Well, if you think you are safe because you are just a little fish in a big pond, think again. ...
CyberheistNews Vol 5 #1 Jan 6, 2015 Kim Zetter did her homework and extrapolated for WIRED magazine the current threats and looked at how they would unfold in the coming 12 months. She ...
The Wall Street Journal polled its readers and asked them to rate the top compliance issues of 2014. The answers were very interesting!
