Is Equifax Paying Up To 700 Million... Or Is It 1.4 Billion?

Jul 23, 2019 7:26:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a settlement with the FTC, consumers affected by the breach are eligible for up to $20,000 in a cash settlement, depending on damages they can prove. But different news sources claim ...

Hackers Exfiltrate 7.5TB From Russian FSB Contractor

Jul 22, 2019 10:52:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

'Biggest ever breach' exposes project to de-anonymize Tor traffic. IF YOU'RE A CONTRACTOR to a government intelligence service, then getting hacked is a really bad look. Especially if the ...

Windows Defender Gets a New Name: Microsoft Defender

Jul 22, 2019 7:24:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bleepingcomputer reported: "Windows Defender is being rebranded to Microsoft Defender to indicate that it now part of a cross platform family of products. This includes enterprise ...

[Scam of The Week] New 'US State Police' Phishing Extortion Scam Includes Contact Numbers

Jul 20, 2019 11:26:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friend Larry Abrams at Bleeping computer warned: "A new extortion scam is underway that pretends to be from a US State Police detective who is willing to delete child porn evidence if ...

KnowBe4 Adds Language Localization to Learner's Experience For All Customers

Jul 20, 2019 10:02:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are excited to announce the availability of KnowBe4’s new localized training interface option for your users!

U.S. Coast Guard Warns of Phishing Attacks Designed for Data Theft and Malware Infection

Jul 19, 2019 3:15:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new Marine Safety Information Bulletin from the U.S. Coast Guard demonstrates that cybercriminals aren’t just after land-based businesses.

U.K. Sees an Increase in Sophisticated Phishing Attacks Targeting Educational Institutions

Jul 19, 2019 3:12:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Using a mix of identity deception, domain spoofing, credential theft, and bank fraud, scammers are taking advantage of soft targets in the U.K.’s education sector.

Deep Fakes Getting Better Every Day With AI / Machine Learning

Jul 19, 2019 11:51:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent article in The Next Web showed how AI can magically remove a person or object from a video background as computer algorithms “clips” the person walking across a street out of the ...

NSO spyware ‘targets Big Tech cloud services’

Jul 19, 2019 10:15:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon ...

Lateral Phishing Used To Attack Organizations On Global Scale

Jul 18, 2019 4:55:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly reported: "Lateral phishing is a growing type of account takeover that has enabled attackers to target more than 100,000 people by hijacking just 154 ...

Whoa Nellie. BEC Scams Average USD 300 Million Per Month In Illegal Transfers

Jul 18, 2019 11:04:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data compiled by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) shows that illegal transactions linked to business email compromise (BEC)—aka CEO Fraud— scams averaged $300 million ...

CBInsights Welcomes KnowBe4 To The Cybersecurity Unicorn Club

Jul 18, 2019 9:51:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CBInsights wrote: "Cybersecurity unicorns (*) are being minted at a faster rate than ever before, and $1B+ valuations are coming through even larger funding rounds. Private companies are ...

Microsoft Notifies 10,000 Customers About Nation-state Cyber Attacks

Jul 18, 2019 9:43:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In an article about cyber security related to voting machines, an interesting snippet of information surfaced: “Microsoft said it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year ...

SANS Security Awareness Report Highlights the Rising Era of Awareness Training

Jul 18, 2019 8:40:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

SANS Security Awareness, a division of SANS Institute, announced they have released their new 2019 Security Awareness Report. In its fifth consecutive year, this very useful annual report ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Employees receive nearly five phishing emails per work week, according to Avanan

Jul 18, 2019 7:14:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One in every 99 work emails is a phishing attack, according to a recent Avanan report. With employees accustomed to a busy inbox, it's easy to fall victim to a phishing attack disguising ...

Mimecast Identifies Brand New Phishing Tactic Called "SHTML"

Jul 17, 2019 3:24:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In early April, the Mimecast Threat Center team discovered a rare type of server-parsed HTML (SHTML) based phishing attack emerging from the UK.

Chinese Hackers Use Island Hopping to Steal Industrial and Commercial Secrets in 5-year Attack on the World’s Largest Technology Service Providers

Jul 16, 2019 4:30:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dubbed the “Cloud Hopper” campaign, victim companies such as Ericsson, HPE, IBM, and more were targets of exfiltration aimed and helping advance the Chinese economy.

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