How Modern Email Phishing Attacks Have Organizations On The Hook

Aug 6, 2017 1:11:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Israeli anti-phishing vendor IronScales came out with an interesting new report about phishing trends. They looked at more than 8,500 attacks that bypassed spam filters, from more than a ...

How Not To Fall For Phishing As An IT Pro

Aug 5, 2017 12:36:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, here is a new spear phishing scheme that attacks your development team. Cyber criminals with IPs resolving to Russia hijacked an extension for Google Chrome and abused their illegal ...

Cerber Ransomware Can Now Steal Bitcoin Wallet Data And Browser Passwords

Aug 5, 2017 11:57:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Russian 800-pound gorilla Dridex Banking Trojan gang who are also behind the Cerber ransomware have just upped their game. Cerber is part of the small set of professional ransomware ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #30 Scary New Social Engineering Attack Turns Off Your Power

Aug 1, 2017 10:04:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers are targeting hotel Wi-Fi with particularly evil malware and spear phishing

Jul 25, 2017 10:13:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The veteran DarkHotel hacking group is back with a few new tricks up their sleeve. These sophisticated hackers first began targeting high level executives in 2011 with a signature brand ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #29 CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative Than Ransomware Over the Past 3 Years

Jul 24, 2017 9:50:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Data Breaches Are Up 29 Percent Over Last Year

Jul 22, 2017 11:52:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Data breaches are running 29 percent above last year, according to a report released by the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout. Hacking was the leading cause of data breaches ...

CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over the Past 3 Years

Jul 22, 2017 10:07:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cisco's midyear report released this week showed that CEO Fraud netted cybercrime five times more money than ransomware over the last three years. The surprising highlight of Cisco's ...

New Phishing Templates: OJ Simpson Parole and Chester Bennington Suicide Note

Jul 21, 2017 8:45:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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43% of C-suite execs name cybersecurity as No. 1 operational challenge

Jul 20, 2017 3:42:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A global survey over 400 C-suite execs by the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney showed that cybersecurity (43 percent) is the top operational challenge they faced. Also, a whopping ...

New Type Of WhatsApp Phishing Attack

Jul 20, 2017 1:34:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Heads-up. There is a new social engineering attack currently being tested in Europe, and that means we will see it in America in the near future.

Ransomware attack on KQED TV, Radio Station wiped out pre-recorded segments

Jul 20, 2017 7:29:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KQED, a TV and radio station in San Francisco, is an example that shows how badly any organization can suffer when ransomware hits their network. KQED has been trying to recover from the ...

Evil Corp Hires Criminal Hackers For Highly Targeted Ransomware Infections

Jul 19, 2017 5:47:53 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, here is something new...

A Single Extreme Cyberattack Could Cost the U.S. More than Hurricane Katrina

Jul 18, 2017 11:38:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lucinda Shen at Fortune wrote: "With an uptick in cyberattacks across the world, from WannaCry to Petya ransomware, a new report from banking heavyweight Lloyds of London warns just how ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #28 New. Your Complimentary Customized Automated Security Awareness Program: ASAP!

Jul 18, 2017 9:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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The Hackers Smell Blood Now, Not Silicon

Jul 15, 2017 5:51:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Morgan wrote an excellent post with the Top 5 cybersecurity facts, figures and statistics for 2017 at the CSO site. These predictions and observations provide a 30,000-foot view of ...

Business Braces for More Ransomware Assaults

Jul 15, 2017 5:14:01 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Baseline Mag has a great slide show with the results of an ISACA survey (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), a nonprofit group for IT and information systems ...

Cyber Security Pros Work Weekends And Still Feel Unprepared

Jul 15, 2017 10:30:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Recent surveys by Farsight and Anomali find that 57% of InfoSec pros work weekends, and nearly a third of survey respondents noted they work on average 10-hour days, but also, one in ...

Two New Cybercrime-as-a-Service Platforms Discovered

Jul 15, 2017 9:13:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a rising trend of cybercrime sites for wannabe "crims" that make malicious hacking a point-and-click exercise. A new report describes two more sites that were discovered by ...

Second Quarter 2017 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects [INFOGRAPHIC]

Jul 14, 2017 5:33:06 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report at least quarterly on the latest top-clicked phishing email subjects so our customers know what the highest-risk ...

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