A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers And Dumping Their Code

Apr 18, 2019 5:00:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Alyssa Foote at WIRED wrote: "NEARLY THREE YEARS after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA's hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open ...

[Heads-up] A GA County School System Only Just Escaped A 2 Million Dollar Cyber Attack

Apr 18, 2019 7:31:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Armor, a leading global cloud security solutions provider, read the news about a recent cyberattack, where hackers targeted the payroll department of the city of Tallahassee, FL and ...

Scammers Impersonate Big UK Law

Apr 18, 2019 7:02:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned that scammers are impersonating a London law firm, Linklaters LLP, using phony job offers. The documents purport to come from the ...

Over 80% of All Phishing Attacks Targeted U.S. Organizations

Apr 17, 2019 12:02:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

U.S. entities remained the most attractive targets of phishing attacks throughout 2018, with an estimated 84% of the total volume of millions of incidents analyzed during the last year by ...

County Line Ransomware Fever

Apr 17, 2019 11:24:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A ransomware attack against Genesee County, Michigan, was more extensive than county officials originally thought, SC Magazine says. The county’s systems were hit by the malware on ...

Smishing Down Under

Apr 17, 2019 11:18:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Banking malware is being installed on Android devices via malicious links in SMS messages, CRN reports. Cisco Talos discovered the malware being advertised on an exploit forum, and found ...

Ransomware Attack Hits Stratford City Hall

Apr 17, 2019 11:12:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Stratford city hall was the target of an apparent cyber-attack, but officials do not believe personal information was compromised.

I need your input and I've got a ONE-Question Super Short Survey!

Apr 17, 2019 10:36:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I need your input and I've got a ONE-Question Super Short Survey! Are you lacking a (free) tool that gives you more insight about social engineering risks that your users are exposed to? ...

Phishing Attack Spoofs Email Security Firm

Apr 16, 2019 10:50:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ray Shultz at MediaPost's EmailINSIDER wrote about a nasty new way that the bad guys are trying to establish trust: spoofing the return path and received email headers of Barracuda in an ...

How And Why KnowBe4 Got An 800+ Million Valuation

Apr 16, 2019 10:05:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I found a great article by Rey Mashayekhi at Fortune Magazine where Rey interviews KnowBe4 investor KKR Managing Director Vincent Letteri:

[SCAM OF THE WEEK]: Notre Dame Disaster Causes FireStorm Of Social Engineering And Misinformation

Apr 16, 2019 7:17:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught fire and was barely saved from total destruction. Millions of people visit every year and hundreds of millions feel a powerful, and personal, ...

Island Hopping Grows in Popularity as Attackers use One Victim to Create the Next

Apr 16, 2019 6:45:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals no longer see your organization as just their next target; they see the organization as a valuable source of intel and the launch point for their next attack. In business ...

Insurers Discuss What to Expect from a Ransomware Attack, and How to Defend Yourself Against One

Apr 16, 2019 6:41:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware tops the list of attacks for insurers of the food and beverage industry. Outdated software and lax user concern for security controls provide attacker with a way in.

Staff and Students Put School Districts at the Greatest Risk of Cyber Attack

Apr 16, 2019 6:35:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Inadvertent sharing, phishing attacks, and ransomware top the list of attack vectors, with teachers, students, and vendors all contributing to the risk of breach.

Spycatching: Social Engineering and the FBI's Insider Threat Experience

Apr 15, 2019 5:11:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We’ve recently shared a link to a podcast, “The Ghost and the Mole,” which revisits the infamous case of FBI Special Agent turned Russian spy Robert Hanssen. Before dismissing this as ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #16 The City of Tallahassee Lost Half a Million Dollars in an Insidious Payroll Attack

Apr 15, 2019 9:55:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Extortionists Threaten Victims with WannaCry Ransomware

Apr 15, 2019 6:37:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An email extortion scam is threatening victims with DDoS attacks and WannaCry ransomware, according to researchers at Avast. The scammers claim to have hacked the victim’s network and ...

[PODCAST] The ghost and the mole; Eric O'Neill's Gray Day.

Apr 15, 2019 6:30:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eric O’Neill is a former FBI counterintelligence and counterterrorism operative, and founder of the Georgetown Group, a security and investigative firm, as well as national security ...

Reuters: "Cybersecurity Firm Cofense Says Pamplona To Sell Stake After U.S. Probe"

Apr 11, 2019 7:01:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

(Reuters) - U.S. cybersecurity firm Cofense Inc said on Wednesday that buyout firm Pamplona Capital Management is seeking to sell its stake in the company following a year-long probe by ...

What's The Best Name? ThreadJacking or Man-in-the-Inbox Attacks?

Apr 10, 2019 2:23:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are seeing a new type of attack popping up more and more. Bad guys send a phishing attack and steal the credentials of your employee. But they stay under the radar and lurk for a while ...

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