Even when your users don't click...

Aug 14, 2019 10:40:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

...they can still be helping the bad guys compromise your organization. Sad but true.

Report: Data Breach in Biometric Security Platform Affecting Millions of Users

Aug 14, 2019 7:22:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s team recently discovered a huge data breach in biometrics security platform BioStar 2. Once stolen, fingerprint ...

BYOD Really Means Bring Your Own Risk

Aug 14, 2019 7:04:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new survey by Nationwide Insurance found that while 83 percent of small businesses let their employees work from home when necessary, one-fifth of these companies don’t provide ...

Still Dodging that Sextortion Bullet

Aug 13, 2019 5:27:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It has long been true that sextortionists really had nothing on their intended victims. No video, no screen captures, nothing at all beyond shame and an uneasy conscience. Unfortunately ...

Security warning for software developers: You are now prime targets for phishing attacks

Aug 13, 2019 11:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Danny Palmer at ZDNet wrote: "Software developers are the people most targeted by hackers conducting cyberattacks against the technology industry, with the hackers taking advantage of the ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #33 Bad Guys Exploit CapitalOne Breach to Push Backdoor Trojan

Aug 13, 2019 10:04:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: See Jeffrey Epstein Last Words On Video

Aug 12, 2019 8:47:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This weekend, news broke that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell, apparently a suicide. This is a celebrity death that the bad guys are going to be exploiting in a variety of ways ...

3 Important Facts to Take Away From the New Data Security Law

Aug 12, 2019 6:59:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Lecio De Paula, Jr., Director of Data Privacy, KnowBe4. New Hampshire joins Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan in enacting a new data security law directed at insurers modeled after ...

Three Lessons from a Recent MegaCortex Ransomware Phishing Attack

Aug 12, 2019 6:55:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The MegaCortex strain of ransomware has been used in criminal campaigns targeting businesses as opposed to private individuals. The QuickBooks cloud-hosting firm iNSYNQ, has sustained ...

Varieties of Extortion Experience

Aug 10, 2019 11:26:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are all familiar with ransomware and its increasingly dangerous cousin, wiper malware. The first encrypts your files and demands ransom payments in exchange for the decryption key. The ...

Here Are Some Interesting Headlines I Found During Black Hat

Aug 10, 2019 10:45:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Black Hat 2019 - The Craziest, Most Terrifying Things We Saw: I ran into Neil Rubenking when I went to the Qualys party which was in the Foundation Room all the way on top of the ...

Business Email Compromise Doubles in Incidents and Triples in Cost

Aug 9, 2019 5:54:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from the U.S. government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) shows fraud via business email is changing tactics and becoming more effective.

Email Attacks are Having A Major Impact on Business with Employees Seen as a Major Weak Link

Aug 9, 2019 5:38:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With 82% of organizations facing an attempted email-based security threat in the past year, the impacts of these attacks are material and potentially harmful to the organization.

CEO Fraud hits B.C. lawyers for $2 million

Aug 9, 2019 3:12:16 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Two B.C. law firms were targets of so-called social engineering frauds causing almost $2 million in real estate and investment funds to be wired to people other than clients the firms ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content & Features Updates - July 2019

Aug 9, 2019 11:01:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of July!

Confirm Your Unsubscribe Request? Not So Fast

Aug 8, 2019 9:40:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An email phishing campaign that BleepingComputer describes as “long-running” has shown a distinct uptick recently. The phishbait in the subject line will read something like this: ...

Bad Guys Exploit CapitalOne Breach to Push Backdoor Trojan

Aug 7, 2019 3:56:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys are now exploiting news of the CapitalOne breach to push a malicious backdoor trojan via a phishing email purporting to offer a Windows Security Update. See the attached ...

Pleading Guilty to Business Email Compromise

Aug 7, 2019 9:47:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amil Hassan Raage has taken a guilty plea to charges of fraud in a business email compromise (aka CEO fraud) case that netted him and his criminal co-conspirators almost three-quarters of ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #32 Scam of the Week: Equifax Settlement Phishing

Aug 6, 2019 9:43:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #32 Scam of the Week: Equifax Settlement Phishing Well, that did not take long! The Equifax Data Breach resulted in a settlement and those affected have a choice ...

[NEW PhishER Feature] Identify Email Threats Even Faster with PhishML™

Aug 6, 2019 9:31:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are excited to announce the availability of PhishML™ as part of the PhishER platform to all PhishER customers. PhishML is a new machine-learning module that helps you identify and ...

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