Manufacturing giant Aebi Schmidt hit by ransomware

Apr 23, 2019 5:33:36 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Aebi Schmidt, a European manufacturing giant with operations in the U.S., has been hit by a ransomware attack, TechCrunch has learned.

PayPal receives patent for ransomware detection technology

Apr 23, 2019 12:11:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted this week a patent to online payments company PayPal for a technique for detecting and stopping ransomware attacks.

Evil TeamViewer Attacks Under the Guise of the U.S. State Department

Apr 23, 2019 11:43:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #17 [Heads-Up] Slippery Phishing Attack Spoofs Email Security Firm

Apr 23, 2019 9:44:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why Ransomware Continues to Be an Immensely Profitable Business for Bad Actors

Apr 23, 2019 7:25:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware, arguably the most efficient malware used by cybercrooks in recent years, continues to wreak havoc on a global scale, affecting everyone and everything, from regular Internet ...

Spearphishing Boils Down to Basic Social Engineering

Apr 23, 2019 7:13:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...

Social Engineers Earn a First

Apr 23, 2019 7:09:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...

Florida Spearphishing: Meddle Globally, Phish Locally

Apr 22, 2019 6:58:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Russian intelligence services sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts used by Florida election officials in November 2016, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ...

The Cost of Paying in a Ransomware Attack Nearly Doubles While Downtime Also Increases

Apr 22, 2019 6:49:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from Coveware shows increases across the board in ransoms, downtime, and average cost of an attack, mostly due to the increased use of the Ryuk ransomware variant.

U.K. Government: "80% Of Organizations Experience Phishing Attacks"

Apr 22, 2019 6:42:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Despite maintaining an improved security posture over last year, 2019 brings additional attacks with a higher price tag, causing the U.K. government to urge organizations to do more.

Ohio Becomes the Third U.S. State to Adopt the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law

Apr 22, 2019 6:34:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ohio joins South Carolina and Michigan to create cybersecurity legislation modeled after the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law.

Phishing Continues to be the Source of Health Data Breaches Totaling Over 1M Breached Records

Apr 22, 2019 6:28:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The beginning of 2019 has proven that data breaches in the health industry aren’t going anywhere. And from the intel on the breaches, phishing is playing a predominant role.

[InfoGraphic] 56 Must Know Data Breach Statistics for 2019

Apr 20, 2019 10:29:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Varonis spent a lot of time compiling a whole bunch of data breach stats that are very good ammo for budget requests. They also created an infographic with a quick executive summary. Did ...

New Articles And Templates From The KnowBe4 Tech Content Team

Apr 19, 2019 10:24:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hi everyone, we wanted to send a quick note about the major items the Tech Content Team has added to our knowledge base and KMSAT product in the last month.

Here are few Game of Thrones phishing scams you should know about and how to avoid them

Apr 18, 2019 5:23:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the Game of Thrones (GoT) Season 8 finally airing, bad guys are using a variety of social engineering tactics to trick your end-users.

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 ...

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