Alert Your Users About Calendar Scams And What To Do About Them

Sep 3, 2019 6:47:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We’ve noted this particular scam before, but it’s continued to make a pest of itself, and so we bring it to your attention again. Scammers are abusing Google Calendar invites to send out ...

Phishing Scheme Gains Entry To Oregon Judicial Department Emails

Aug 30, 2019 2:55:14 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Aubrey Wieber at the DemocratHerald reported: "A phishing scheme succeeded in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information ...

AI Used For Social Engineering. Fraudsters Mimic CEO’s Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case | WSJ

Aug 30, 2019 2:46:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Catherine Stupp at the Wall Street Journal reported on something we have predicted would happen in this blog. The article started out with:

New Course Available - California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Aug 30, 2019 2:26:25 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last year California passed a new law, similar to GDPR, called the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018. This law is to be implemented on January 1, 2020. Any company doing ...

New ransomware grows 118% as cybercriminals adopt fresh tactics and code innovations

Aug 29, 2019 2:53:31 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 2019, and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code.

Ransomware Criminals Hack Dental Software Company And Take Hundreds Of Customers' Systems Hostage

Aug 29, 2019 2:35:25 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hundreds of dental practice offices in the US have had their computers infected with ransomware this week, ZDNet has learned from a source.

Why Are Insurance Companies Insisting To Pay Ransom For Ransomware Attacks?

Aug 29, 2019 2:12:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, ProPublica published a report describing how insurance companies now prefer to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars / pounds / Euros in ransom to minimize the detriment ...

Financial Phishing Campaigns on the Rise

Aug 29, 2019 7:01:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 1900 new potential bank phishing sites were registered in the first half of 2019, according to researchers at NormShield. Based on the increase in new suspicious domains ...

Business Detections of Ransomware Attacks Have Grown by 365%

Aug 28, 2019 3:51:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from Malwarebyte’s report Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques: Ransomware Retrospective shows businesses are at risk of ransomware attack now more than ever.

MegaCortex Ransomware goes Fully Automated, Putting Enterprises at Risk of Ransoms in the Millions

Aug 28, 2019 3:21:57 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new version of MegaCortex has been spotted, upgrading it from a manual, targeted form of ransomware, to one that can be spread and do damage enterprise-wide.

Microsoft, PayPal, and Facebook are the Top Three Impersonated Brands

Aug 28, 2019 6:50:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Back in June, we discussed Vade Secure’s “Phisher’s Favorite” report for Q1 2019, which found that Microsoft had been the most impersonated brand used in phishing attacks for four ...

Bogus Suicide Prevention as a Scam

Aug 28, 2019 6:34:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A lowlife Colorado bail bondsman named Matthew Marre repeatedly posed as a law enforcement officer to trick T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon into giving him GPS data for his targets’ phones, ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #35 A State-of-the-Art Spoof (or, "Why Turning Your Users Into Grammar Nazis Won't Keep the Bad Guys Out.")

Aug 27, 2019 9:26:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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Alert Your Users About Calendar Scams And What To Do About Them

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MegaCortex Ransomware goes Fully Automated, Putting Enterprises at Risk of Ransoms in the Millions

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