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.

[THIS IS NOT A DRILL] KB4 Training Template Used As Phishing In The Wild

Jan 15, 2019 3:20:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's a known fact that once your market share is big enough, the bad guys are going after you. Used to be that viruses and malware were only developed for Windows, but when Apple got to ...

Brand-New Tool: Password Exposure Test Identifies Risky Users

Jan 15, 2019 9:29:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals are constantly coming out with new ways to hack into your network and steal your organization’s confidential information. According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Report, ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #3 Your Boss NEEDS to Read This WSJ Article About Our Power Grid and How the Russians Hacked it With Phishing

Jan 15, 2019 9:09:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Awareness Training is the Key to a Culture of Security

Jan 14, 2019 3:47:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here’s a follow-up to an earlier post of ours, with amplification of points well-worth making.

Scam Of The Week: "When Users Add Their Names to a Wall of Shame"

Jan 14, 2019 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher, found out about another insidious bad guy trick: "If you work in IT there has undoubtedly come a dark moment when you wondered to yourself ...

Your Boss NEEDS To Read This WSJ Article About Our Power Grid And How The Russians Hacked It With Phishing

Jan 13, 2019 9:20:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a Jan 10, 2019 article, the Wall Street Journal reconstructed the worst known hack into the USA's power grid revealing attacks on hundreds of small contractors.

Email Security Gap Analysis: Survey Finds Phishing Is The No. 1 Attack That Worries IT Pros Most

Jan 12, 2019 6:34:32 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There are a few companies that frequently report on so-called "email security gap analysis" numbers: Mimecast, Proofpoint and Cyren. They are all IT security companies that have email ...

Finra punishes former Schwab broker for lying about role in $800,000 CEO Fraud scam

Jan 12, 2019 10:26:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A former broker for Charles Schwab & Co.was fined $5,000 and suspended for 90 days by Finra for lying to Schwab about a CEO Fraud attack in which he wired nearly $800,000 to someone ...

New Data Suggests that Negligent Employees May Be the Reason Data Breaches are So Successful

Jan 11, 2019 5:05:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

When it comes to root causes of data breaches, it’s not your firewall, your endpoint protection, your antivirus, nor your patching that’s failing you; it’s your employees.

Banking Cyber Heists Celebrate Their 25th Birthday!

Jan 10, 2019 4:10:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the very first cyber-heist, netting one of the first cybercriminals $10 million from Citibank. The tactics have changed, but the target hasn’t.

Lowlife Scammers exploit Sick Children in Latest Ransomware Attack

Jan 10, 2019 3:37:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The outrageous attack combination of ransomware, claims to donate to charity, and even details of children’s names, diagnoses, and pictures proves there is no low cybercriminals won’t go ...

The Government may be shut down, but the bad guys are not

Jan 10, 2019 2:18:49 PM By Eric Howes

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Once again we are starting tax season, and malicious actors are spinning up phishing campaigns to exploit the myriad opportunities ...

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