CyberheistNews Vol 8 #23 [Heads-Up] Ransomware Insurance Expert: "Bad Guys Do More Damage Than They Used To."

Jun 4, 2018 9:49:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Watch Out For World Cup Soccer Phishing Scams

Jun 2, 2018 3:12:14 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 2018 FIFA World Cup has drawn a worldwide audience. It's also attracted phishing scams using event tickets as bait. Tickets for the matches can only be purchased legitimately through ...

[Heads-up] Ransomware Insurance Expert: "Bad Guys Do More Damage Than They Used To"

Jun 2, 2018 8:28:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The ransomware plague is not letting up and rapidly getting more technically sophisticated. New strains are popping up every month, using innovative methods to spread. Worse, the ransom ...

Punycode Makes SMiShing Attacks More Deceiving

Jun 1, 2018 5:47:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks carried out via text messages that use the “Punycode” technique to make nefarious URLs look legitimate are becoming more popular, cloud security firm Zscaler says.

Satan Ransomware Spawns New And Innovative Methods to Spread

Jun 1, 2018 5:27:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It’s a worrying trend that ransomware isn’t going away. Worse, it's constantly adapting to include brand new exploits/techniques and spreads in more innovative and successful ways. Today, ...

The Con of Social Engineering: Law Firms are Easy Prey

Jun 1, 2018 4:15:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Excellent article at www.law.com about social engineering! A discussion of the threat that social engineering (aka the "human side of hacking") poses to law firms, and some tips and ...

Hacking Humans—a new CyberWire podcast covering social engineering launched this week

Jun 1, 2018 3:53:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Each week the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast looks behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that make headlines and take a heavy toll on ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Update & New Features May 2018

May 30, 2018 5:08:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

May was an exciting month with a variety of updates. Check out what's new! EXPLOQII ACQUISITION AND NEW VIDEO CONTENT We are excited to add a new content publisher to the KnowBe4 family. ...

Here is a Spam Message from 1864, as Old as the Victorian Internet

May 30, 2018 1:38:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you thought spam was just a twenty-first-century thing, think again. As usual, most things that seem new have pretty deep roots. Most of us can see spam's ancestry in junk mail, but it ...

Cobalt Cybercrime Group Resumes Phishing Attacks

May 29, 2018 10:58:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The leader of the Cobalt hacking group was arrested in Spain two months ago, but the gang resurfaced at the end of May. Their spear phishing emails started hitting victims' in-boxes again ...

ModStore Update: 44 exploqii videos with downloadable option now live

May 29, 2018 9:45:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 8 #22 Which Users Will Cause the Most Damage to Your Network and Are an Active Liability?

May 29, 2018 9:43:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why is Windows 10 Rapidly Gaining Ground in The Enterprise While Win7 Gets Ditched?

May 27, 2018 10:36:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Duo Security is a provider of secure login/access tools, and they just released their yearly Trusted Access Report with some very interesting data. Here Is The Summary Stats gathered from ...

It's May 25th, 2018: GDPR DAY! Here Are Phishing Templates You Can Use...

May 25, 2018 10:31:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Because it is "GDPR day" our templates team has been hard at work developing GDPR/Privacy policy templates. We have 6 new templates available in the system, located in Current Events. We ...

1 in 10 healthcare organizations paid off ransomware within the last year

May 25, 2018 9:50:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than one in three healthcare organizations have suffered a cyberattack within the last year, while almost one in 10 have paid a ransom or extortion fee, according to Imperva.

Which Users Will Cause The Most Damage To Your Network And Are An Active Liability?

May 24, 2018 6:08:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The statistic that four percent of employees will click on almost anything, with “Free Coffee” and “Package Delivery” taking some of the top spots among phishbait subject lines, may not ...

Surprise! What's The Country Where All The CEO Fraud Gangs Are?

May 24, 2018 5:05:53 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new study by Agari concludes that, despite all the attention nation-state espionage services have been getting for their phishing attacks, the big threat still comes from criminal gangs.

Why are Antivirus Companies Promoting Security Awareness Training?

May 24, 2018 1:33:58 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, the most surprising companies have jumped on the security awareness training bandwagon. Antivirus companies like Sophos, Kaspersky, Webroot and ESET are loudly promoting the fact ...

A Banking Trojan Goes Phishing

May 24, 2018 11:50:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Roaming Mantis has drawn notoriety as a banking Trojan. Its criminal controllers, however, have recently given it some new functionality: phishing and cryptomining. The criminals have ...

Lawyer: GDPR Will Affect Ransomware Reporting In U.S.

May 24, 2018 10:22:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation will affect how U.S. companies deal with the rising threat of ransomware attacks, according to a leading privacy lawyer, by ...

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