Criminals Make Off With USD $150,000 in Business Email Compromise Real Estate Scam

Jan 22, 2019 5:20:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers stole $150,000 from a woman during a real estate transaction last year, according to Lisa Vaas at Naked Security. Mireille Appert, a Swiss woman who lives in the United States, ...

Social Oversharing, Online Quizzes, and Prizes are the Makings of a New Form of Phishing

Jan 22, 2019 3:52:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing is moving beyond the Inbox to your online experience in an effort to collect personal details and share out the attack on social networks, according to a new report from Akamai ...

Chinese Hackers Take Phishing and CEO Fraud to Another Level Raking in $18.6 Million

Jan 22, 2019 3:49:38 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A talented group of Fraudsters used phishing, social engineering, and pure chutzpah to convince the India arm of Italian engineering company Tecnimont to part with millions of dollars.

[INFOGRAPHIC] Q4 2018 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects from KnowBe4

Jan 22, 2019 9:35:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 reports every quarter on the top-clicked phishing emails. Here we have the results for Q4 2018. We track three different categories: general email subjects, those related to ...

EY UK: "We've seen a huge proliferation of very successful phishing attacks"

Jan 21, 2019 5:13:04 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bethan Moorcraft at InsuranceBusiness Mag UK wrote an excellent article about the current state of cyber insurance in Europe. Here is an extract with the link to the full article at the ...

Firm in $1.7-million dispute with insurer because of social engineering fraud

Jan 21, 2019 1:58:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Global law firm Dentons Canada LLP is locked in a $1.7-millon dispute with its insurer after staff at the firm’s Vancouver office fell victim to an alleged social engineering attack.

Cybercrime could cost companies trillions over the next five years

Jan 21, 2019 10:26:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new report (PDF) by Accenture indicates that over the next 5 years, cyberattacks could result in global costs totaling $5.2 trillion.

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #4 It Only Takes 1 Phish: Wichita State University Employees Get Fooled Into Losing Their Paychecks

Jan 21, 2019 9:48:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The internet's 'father' says it was born with two big flaws

Jan 20, 2019 5:37:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

BusinessInsider just posted an article that confirms something I have been saying for years. There is some contrary data though. We may be looking at a light version of rewriting history. ...

"Ransomware Humor" Two Words You Thought You Would Never See Together

Jan 18, 2019 4:41:24 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Someone's got a warped sense of humor. See the spoofed ransomware email below:

[VIDEO] KnowBe4 Quarterly Platform Update

Jan 18, 2019 4:28:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Every quarter, the KnowBe4 Technical Content team creates an update of all the new content and features that have been added the last three months. Here is the Jan 2019 issue, which ...

Proposed N.C. Bill Would Require Ransomware Disclosures

Jan 18, 2019 3:34:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein released a report on Thursday that highlights the impact of data breaches on the state in 2018, and paired the report with a bipartisan bill to ...

Ransomware Attack Makes Government Offices in Del Rio, Texas Resort to Pen and Paper

Jan 18, 2019 11:35:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This latest ransomware attack demonstrates how an entire network can be taken down, bringing operations to a screeching halt.

BenefitMall Hit by Months-Long Data Breach

Jan 17, 2019 2:47:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Dallas-based payroll firm BenefitMall announced on January 4 that nearly 112,000 customers may have had their personal information exposed during a four-month long data breach. The ...

The U.S. Government Blaming Cyber Attacks on Russia May Cost One Business $100 Million

Jan 17, 2019 2:02:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Governments attributing cyberattacks to specific countries usually ends in nothing more than a line in a news story. But sometimes these kinds of claims can have unforeseen consequences.

[Heads-up] Are Any Of Your Users Exposed In This Brand New Humongous Data Breach?

Jan 16, 2019 5:59:32 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Troy Hunt, the site admin of Have I Been Pwned just released some disconcerting news. A new data breach of humongous proportions has just been made public, we are talking astronomical ...

What Does KnowBe4 Think About Link Re-writing?

Jan 16, 2019 5:11:32 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a question that was asked by a customer who was implementing our Phish Alert Button so that employees could report phishy emails.

Modern Ransomware Goes After Data Backups

Jan 16, 2019 4:07:20 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware is using a variety of methods to reduce or nullify the effectiveness of data backups, writes Maria Korolov at CSO. Restoring from a backup is one of the best strategies that ...

The Top 10 Big Risk Picture From Way High Up

Jan 16, 2019 2:34:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

What keeps you up at night? These are the biggest risks facing our world in 2019. Top world leaders were surveyed for the latest edition of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report. ...

Increase in Office 365 Attacks and Data Breaches Should Be Expected as We Approach the 2019 Tax Season

Jan 16, 2019 10:20:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Experts warn of uptick in phishing attacks against businesses leveraging Office 365 as the tax season begins, tensions run high, and opportunities to trick off-guard users will be plenty.

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