Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil

Sep 16, 2019 1:31:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yahoo came out with some very interesting news: "On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the ...

Ex White House CIO attacks insurance firms for 'fuelling ransomware industry'

Sep 16, 2019 9:44:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Former CIO of the White House Theresa Payton has warned that cyber insurance companies are supporting the ransomware industry by manipulating organisations into paying to have their ...

WSJ: "U.S. Targets North Korean Hacking as Rising National-Security Threat"

Sep 16, 2019 7:23:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ian Talley and Dustin Volz at the WSJ wrote:

Employees Are the Reason 70% of Financial Companies Have Suffered Security Incidents in the Last Twelve Months

Sep 16, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from cybersecurity vendor Clearswift shows untrained employees are clearly the source of incidents that plague an overwhelming majority of companies in the financial ...

Video Becomes the Next Big Bait for Social Engineering

Sep 16, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers are always looking for new ways to get potential victims to engage. It appears that the latest trend is to leverage our familiarity with watching video to spawn an attack.

Only 5% of U.S. Healthcare Employees Receive Continual Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Sep 16, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent report by security vendor Kaspersky highlights how healthcare organizations are at risk of cyberattack – and how a lack of training is responsible.

How Can You Check If Your Email Is Compromised?

Sep 16, 2019 6:52:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Rudy Friederich, a KnowBe4 friend at Marshal Security LLC sent me the following interesting tips related to finding out if you are the victim of Business Email Compromise. He wrote:

Global Phishing Campaign Targets Universities

Sep 16, 2019 6:31:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have been tracking a major phishing campaign that’s using library-themed emails to target more than sixty universities around the ...

Germany Gets Hit With Destructive Filewiper Phishing Attack

Sep 16, 2019 2:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber security remains the biggest threat to business in Africa

Sep 13, 2019 11:30:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CAPE TOWN – African business owners who attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town have flagged cybersecurity as the biggest threat to business.

KnowBe4 #4 on eSecurity Planet Top 15 Cybersecurity Companies

Sep 13, 2019 10:00:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We were excited to hear that eSecurity Planet worked with Gartner and Cybersecurity Ventures to compile a ranking of the Top Cybersecurity Companies. They listed the Top 15 and KnowBe4 ...

Holy SIMoly! Simjacker: SIM Card Attack Used to Spy on Mobile Phone Users

Sep 12, 2019 4:38:54 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Nightmare? New "Deadline" Email From Equifax Settlement Administrator Notifies of Changes in Filing.

Sep 12, 2019 3:10:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

You’d better check your email queue for a new email from The Equifax Breach Settlement Administrator that was sent out several days ago to those who previously filed a claim. It will ...

[On-Demand Webinar] Crafty Ways the Bad Guys Use Pretexting to Own Your Network

Sep 12, 2019 1:44:01 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today’s phishing attacks have evolved way beyond spray-and-pray emails that mass target victims. Instead, the bad guys have carefully researched your organization in order to set the ...

Ethical Hackers as Educators

Sep 12, 2019 6:33:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ethical hackers are especially well-positioned to use their knowledge of attack techniques to educate people, according to Zoë Rose, a white-hat hacker based in the UK. On the CyberWire’s ...

FBI Cyber Warning: Attacks On Key Employees Up 100%, As 281 Are Arrested

Sep 12, 2019 6:21:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Zak Doffman, contributor at Forbes reported: "There is a cyberattack epidemic hitting businesses around the world, targeting individuals responsible for requesting fund transfers or ...

The Legal Profession's Catfishing Problem

Sep 11, 2019 8:25:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers frequently impersonate lawyers in fraudulent emails in order to get recipients to take those emails seriously, according to Victoria Hudgins at Legaltech News. Legal threats or ...

The FBI Updates Their Numbers And BEC Is Now A 26 Billion Dollar Scam

Sep 10, 2019 1:32:55 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams —aka CEO Fraud—are continuing to grow every year, with a 100% increase in the identified global ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #37 [Heads-Up] Are Your Servers Right Now Infected With Stealthy Lilu Ransomware? Thousands Are...

Sep 10, 2019 9:35:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity: 99% of email attacks rely on victims clicking links

Sep 10, 2019 6:57:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Danny Palmer at ZDNet had the scoop: "Social engineering is by far the biggest factor in malicious hacking campaigns, warn researchers – so how can it be stopped?"

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Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil

Ex White House CIO attacks insurance firms for 'fuelling ransomware industry'

WSJ: "U.S. Targets North Korean Hacking as Rising National-Security Threat"

Employees Are the Reason 70% of Financial Companies Have Suffered Security Incidents in the Last Twelve Months

Video Becomes the Next Big Bait for Social Engineering

Only 5% of U.S. Healthcare Employees Receive Continual Cybersecurity Awareness Training

How Can You Check If Your Email Is Compromised?

Global Phishing Campaign Targets Universities

Germany Gets Hit With Destructive Filewiper Phishing Attack

Cyber security remains the biggest threat to business in Africa

KnowBe4 #4 on eSecurity Planet Top 15 Cybersecurity Companies

Holy SIMoly! Simjacker: SIM Card Attack Used to Spy on Mobile Phone Users

Phishing Nightmare? New "Deadline" Email From Equifax Settlement Administrator Notifies of Changes in Filing.

[On-Demand Webinar] Crafty Ways the Bad Guys Use Pretexting to Own Your Network

Ethical Hackers as Educators

FBI Cyber Warning: Attacks On Key Employees Up 100%, As 281 Are Arrested

The Legal Profession's Catfishing Problem

The FBI Updates Their Numbers And BEC Is Now A 26 Billion Dollar Scam

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #37 [Heads-Up] Are Your Servers Right Now Infected With Stealthy Lilu Ransomware? Thousands Are...

Cybersecurity: 99% of email attacks rely on victims clicking links

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