Hospitality Provider the Target of an Old-School BadUSB Social Engineering Attack

Mar 26, 2020 7:44:59 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In what appears to be a mix of old- and new-school social engineering, an attack spotted in the wild using a USB thumb drive offers us a view into how one company could have become the ...

Scammers Hijacking Twitter Accounts To Sell Face Masks

Mar 26, 2020 4:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers cashing in on the Coronavirus crisis are now hijacking Twitter accounts to heavily promote a web site purporting to sell face masks, respirators, digital thermometers, and toilet ...

The Creation & Development of a COVID-19 Phish

Mar 26, 2020 2:19:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we documented in a recent blog piece, malicious actors are aggressively exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by re-purposing and overhauling phishing emails they were running before the ...

Inception: Your Employee's Mind is the Scene of the Crime

Mar 26, 2020 8:44:33 AM By Javvad Malik

I loved the movie Inception when it came out. It had everything, a stellar cast, amazing visuals, a strong plot, and a twisted end that still has me wondering whether or not they were in ...

Every Computer Defense Has Three Main Pillars

Mar 26, 2020 8:32:15 AM By Roger Grimes

Defense-in-Depth is a dogmatic term used in the computer defense industry to indicate that every computer defense has to be made up of multiple, overlapping defenses positioned to best ...

[HEADS UP] Cybercriminals Attempt to Exploit Stimulus Package for COVID-19

Mar 26, 2020 8:20:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In several recent blog posts we've showed you the myriad ways in which malicious actors have aggressively -- even ruthlessly -- deployed social engineering tactics to leverage the ...

FBI Warns of Stimulus Check Scams

Mar 25, 2020 8:31:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued an alert warning of coronavirus-related phishing attacks, particularly surrounding economic stimulus checks. The news that the US ...

Beware! The FCC Releases Audio Samples of Coronavirus Phone Scams

Mar 25, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers sink to a new low with these phone scams preying on the fears of U.S. citizens offering hopes of better protecting themselves from the Coronavirus.

[PLATFORM UPDATE] COVID-19 New Templates Categories

Mar 25, 2020 6:57:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This Friday March 27, at 9 a.m. Eastern, we will add two new categories of email templates related to Coronavirus/COVID-19. At this time, we will move all of our existing ...

Sitting Ducks: When Employees Work from Home

Mar 24, 2020 11:54:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As the COVID-19 health crisis rages on and millions of workers and students move to working from home (WFH) and online distance education, no one should make the error of thinking that ...

Ransomware Incidents Increase 131 Percent with the SMB Being the Primary Target

Mar 24, 2020 10:31:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The recent release of new data from U.K. cyberinsurer Beazley’s brings to light what kinds of attacks their customers are experiencing and who’s at risk.

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #13 [Heads-Up] Feeding Frenzy: COVID-19 Phishing Attacks Surge As U.S. Reels From Pandemic

Mar 24, 2020 9:47:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sextortion Scam Combines Lust and Envy

Mar 24, 2020 8:28:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A sleazy phishing campaign is trying to tempt people into opening an attachment that supposedly contains nude pictures of a friend’s girlfriend, BleepingComputer reports. The attackers ...

Brand Impersonation Phishing Attacks Grow While Organizations Fail to Protect Their Brand Using DMARC

Mar 23, 2020 4:08:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data from Security vendor Agari shows how identity deception techniques are being used to fool recipient victims as organizations lack the needed safeguards to ensure emails are ...

An Intimate Look at a Nigerian Social Engineer

Mar 23, 2020 10:05:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Check Point offer a look at a Nigerian citizen who moonlights as a cybercriminal who uses social engineering techniques. The man, whom the researchers call “Dton,” ...

[On-Demand] New 2020 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking Report: How Does Your Organization Measure Up

Mar 23, 2020 8:39:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As a security leader, you have a lot on your plate. Even as you increase your budget for sophisticated security software, your exposure to cybercrime keeps going up. IT security seems to ...

Just How Lucrative is Cybercrime? According to New Charges Against One Gang, $30 Million Lucrative

Mar 23, 2020 8:28:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The recent arrest and charging of a gang of 24 U.S.-based cybercriminals in Atlanta demonstrates how easy it is to become a cybercriminal and use social engineering tactics to fool people ...

Urgency Around the Coronavirus Leads to Phishing Scams Targeting Healthcare

Mar 23, 2020 8:24:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As if the virus itself wasn’t bad enough, lowlife scammers are using the pandemic to trick healthcare workers into giving up credentials. Elite hackers tried to break into the World ...

[Heads-Up] Feeding Frenzy: COVID-19 Phishing Attacks Surge as U.S. Reels from Pandemic

Mar 23, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Eric Howes

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Having already published three blog pieces on the epidemic of Coronavirus-themed phishing emails and spam/scam offerings online (see HERE, ...

Reinforcing Security Norms During the Coronavirus Crisis

Mar 20, 2020 8:43:08 AM By Joanna Huisman

This blog was co-written by Joanna Huisman and Aimee Laycock. We have all seen an increase in the amount of advice and guidance from the healthcare sector and others since the start of ...

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