[Heads up] Paying Ransomware Criminals Might Land You A Steep Federal Fine

Oct 3, 2020 10:04:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned multiple ransomware criminals over the last few years, most notably the Russian cybercrime syndicate ...

Interesting Mini-Movie On Disinformation From The FBI

Oct 3, 2020 8:39:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) released a new movie to increase awareness of how foreign intelligence entities use fake profiles and other forms ...

September Fresh Content Updates from KnowBe4: Get Your 2020 Resource Kit for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Oct 2, 2020 2:53:34 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here are a few important updates to share with you for the month of September.

Malicious Actors Crash U.S. Election: Spoofed Emails Attempt to Gather U.S. Voter Registration Data

Oct 2, 2020 11:48:56 AM By Eric Howes

Unless you recently beamed down from Mars, you are undoubtedly aware that election season is upon us in the United States. Indeed, the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is currently ...

Newly Relaunched ProLock Ransomware Seeks Ransoms as High as $3 Million

Oct 2, 2020 8:33:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Seeing successful attacks as frequently as one per day, the creators of ProLock seek out larger organizations using the QBot trojan to infiltrate, spread throughout, and infect a network.

Global Ransomware Attacks Increase by 715 Percent as Cybercriminals Capitalize on the Pandemic Opportunity

Oct 2, 2020 8:29:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The massive rise in frequency is a signal that cybercriminals are not only finding their ransomware campaigns successful, but are also seeing increases in ransom amounts.

Two Men Charged in a Case of Phishing NFL and NBA Players

Oct 2, 2020 8:25:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...

Don't Just Catch a Phish, Captcha One

Oct 1, 2020 11:03:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Menlo Security have identified a phishing site that uses three layers of visual captchas to evade detection by automated security crawlers. Captchas are brief tests on ...

[CRITICAL] 250,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers are Unpatched and Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks!

Sep 30, 2020 3:37:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With an estimated 61% of Exchange servers in the wild still operating unpatched, this security flaw allows attackers to take over a vulnerable server using any set of valid email ...

[Heads Up] This Ingenious Worm Phishing Campaign Is A Game-Changer In Password Theft And Account Takeovers

Sep 30, 2020 9:52:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A few days ago in a Medium blog post, Craig Hays, a cybersecurity architect and bug bounty hunter described a recent phishing new type of attempt which turned out to become "the greatest ...

Phishing Attacks Continue to Grow More Sophisticated

Sep 30, 2020 8:24:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Both criminal and nation-state threat actors have “rapidly increased in sophistication” over the past twelve months, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report. Microsoft found that ...

What’s the Information Stolen in a Phishing Attack Really Worth?

Sep 29, 2020 11:17:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Once a scammer tricks their victim out of web credentials, credit card details, or online access to a bank account, the details collected are worth plenty by simply selling them on the ...

Spike in Emotet Attacks Against Government Agencies Seen Around the Globe in September

Sep 29, 2020 11:13:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Attacks involving what is arguably the world’s most dangerous malware are on the rise, with reports from the cybersecurity agencies in Japan, New Zealand, and France.

The 2020 Election is Expected to be the Next Big Theme for Cyber Attacks

Sep 29, 2020 11:10:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As the bad guys look for new ways to wreak havoc, cybersecurity experts at NTT global predict attacks pre-, during, and post-election should be expected.

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #40 [Scary Stuff] A Chinese Antivirus Vendor Is Tied to a Decade-Long Hacking Spree

Sep 29, 2020 9:59:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Earns 2020 Top Rated Award from TrustRadius

Sep 29, 2020 8:27:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are proud to announce that TrustRadius has recognized KnowBe4 with a 2020 Top Rated Award.

Phishing Campaign Goes After AT&T Employees’ MFA Codes

Sep 29, 2020 8:22:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A phishing campaign is targeting AT&T employees and contractors with a well-crafted fake login page, according to Luke Leal at Sucuri. The phishing page is a near-exact replica of ...

Organizations Working From Home Opens Wider Target for Cybercriminals

Sep 28, 2020 8:28:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With so many people working from home, more attackers are adapting their strategies to focus on employees as a way to bypass organizations’ defenses, FCW reports. During a webcast hosted ...

Chinese Antivirus Vendor Tied to Part of a Decade-Long Hacking Spree

Sep 24, 2020 11:04:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Members of the hacking group “Apt41” were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for hacking more than 100 victims globally with one of its members running AV vendor Anvisoft.

Cyberattacks Targeting State and Local Government Increase by 50%

Sep 24, 2020 11:00:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

State, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies and municipalities are under attack. Observations and data from security vendor BlueVoyant highlight the attacks and the results.

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