President Signs Executive Order to Boost Federal Cyber Workforce

May 2, 2019 3:17:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The White House launched its latest effort to bolster the government’s cybersecurity workforce.

4 Ways CISOs Can Improve Their Organization’s Security Position

May 2, 2019 6:32:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Understanding where your biggest risks are, and how cybercriminals take advantage of those risks help CISOs to build a better strategy to defend against, detect, and address threats.

Ransomware Attacks Jump 500% as Businesses Continue to Be the Prime Target

May 2, 2019 6:25:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Malwarebyte’s latest Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report exposes some trends indicating that 2019 is looking to be the year of the cyberthreat for businesses.

Tech Support Scam Freezes Browsers

Apr 30, 2019 11:30:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trend Micro has found a new tech support scam that abuses HTML’s Inline Frame element (iframe) along with authentication pop-ups to freeze victims’ browsers by trapping them in a type of ...

Brunswick Church Falls For Phishing Scam Of Almost $2 Million

Apr 30, 2019 10:32:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Staff at St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Brunswick say the church was scammed out of nearly $2 million. The church said a phishing email led it to believe that a construction firm ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #18 Scott County Schools Victim of 3.7 Million Dollar CEO Fraud Phishing Scam

Apr 30, 2019 9:26:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

PSA: How To Recognize Disinformation

Apr 30, 2019 6:49:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One of the skills everyone needs to prevent social engineering attacks is to recognize disinformation. False information that is intended to mislead people has become an epidemic on the ...

Why Marketing Departments Are Cyber Security Targets

Apr 29, 2019 4:01:09 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Because of what they do, marketing departments are potential cybersecurity risks themselves, and digital bad actors are well aware of it. "Since marketers are more closely connected to ...

BEC Scams are a Growing Threat to Retailers

Apr 29, 2019 9:26:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals are improving their social engineering skills to target online retailers with sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) scams, according to Rafael Lourenco at ...

Vendors are Responsible for Almost Half of All Data Breaches

Apr 29, 2019 7:04:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from a survey of 600 SpiceWorks IT and Security professionals shows that vendor users aren’t doing their part to keep your organization’s data safe.

Business Email Compromise Doubled in 2018, Topping the FBI’s List of Internet Crimes

Apr 29, 2019 6:49:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Despite the massive uptick in just about every cybercrime category, good old-fashioned fraud via email phishing and social engineering dominate as the threat to be most concerned about.

U.K. Study Finds only 15% of People Sufficiently Know How to Protect Themselves Online

Apr 29, 2019 6:46:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With 80% of people saying cybersecurity is a priority, the disparity between what they believe is important and their ability to protect themselves puts organizations at risk.

Cryptojacking Phishing Attacks Target Enterprises With NSA-Linked Exploits

Apr 26, 2019 11:45:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Summary: Researchers at Symantec are tracking a cryptojacking campaign that —for now—seems mostly to affect businesses in China. They're calling the campaign "Beapy," and the worm ...

PDFs Return as Phishbait

Apr 25, 2019 7:19:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The use of malware-laden PDF email attachments has spiked in recent months, internet security company SonicWall has found. Over the course of 2018, SonicWall detected 47,000 new attack ...

Scott County Schools victim of $3.7 million CEO Fraud Phishing Scam

Apr 25, 2019 7:02:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - Scott County Schools has announced the district is a victim of a multi-million dollar online CEO fraud scam.

[BREAKING NEWS] US Supreme Court Curbs Class Action Lawsuits Caused By W-2 Phishing Fraud

Apr 24, 2019 4:56:06 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

BREAKING NEWS: The upshot: This case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and sets a new precedent. A phished employee sent out 1,300 confidential employee W-2 data.

[Heads up] Sneaky Phishing Attacks Exploit Legitimate Services & Platforms to Fly Below Your AV's Radar

Apr 24, 2019 2:14:59 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the last few months, we have seen a rising trend of the bad guys using legitimate services—mainly file hosting platforms, but also ...

Phishing Emails Will Always Get Through

Apr 24, 2019 2:12:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Attackers have proven their ability to adapt to improved security measures, and organizations should never assume they’re safe from phishing emails, says Paul Gillin at SiliconANGLE.

Executives are Out and Employees are In as Cybercriminals Change Their Primary Targets for Cyberattack

Apr 24, 2019 7:18:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing and Social Engineering scammers are shifting tactics, focusing efforts on low-level employees using a variety of methods as a means to cast a wider net within a targeted ...

Phishing Attacks See Massive Increases and Improvements in Execution with Social Engineering at the Helm

Apr 24, 2019 7:15:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With 98% of malicious emails that hit inboxes containing no malware, the evolution and future of the phish lies squarely in the hands of effective social engineering.

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