New Phishing Report: 90% of IT Execs Worry Most About Email Threats

Oct 7, 2017 11:33:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our colleagues at Phishme released the results of their US Phishing Response Trends Report, which looked at the phishing response strategies of two hundred senior IT security ...

New Survey: IT Security Spending Is Up, But Security Is Not, Ransomware Is The Biggest Worry

Oct 7, 2017 11:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The second-annual Cyren-Osterman Research U.S. security survey shows a significant disconnect between rising IT security spending and a low level of confidence in current protection, ...

Two Important KnowBe4 Product Updates

Oct 5, 2017 1:45:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

1) KnowBe4 Announces Powerful New Feature: Smart Groups We have added a powerful new feature, Smart Groups, that will help you automate the path your employees take to smarter security ...

KnowBe4’s Record Q3 2017 Performance Fueled by Innovation and Increased Demand

Oct 4, 2017 9:24:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Some excellent news. We announced record results for our Q3 2017, sales were 2.63X greater than Q3 2016. Q3 2017 marks our 18th straight quarter of growth, driven by an increasing ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #39 New Evil Locky Ransomware Strain Evades Machine Learning Security Software

Oct 3, 2017 9:54:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bitdefender Creates Ransomware Recognition Tool

Oct 2, 2017 7:18:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The AV vendor created a free tool to help ransomware victims find which family and sub-version of ransomware has encrypted their data and then get the appropriate decryption tool, if it ...

Whole Foods Point Of Sale Data Breach. Did Amazon Buy An Organic Lemon?

Sep 29, 2017 9:39:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Uh Oh. They just announced. Generally it's the tip of the iceberg, and then over time more details are released that show it was muuuch worse than initially expected. Looks like Amazon ...

New Locky Ransomware Strain Evades Machine Learning Security Software

Sep 29, 2017 7:18:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here is the latest tactic in the cat-and-mouse game between cybercrime and security software vendors. The bad guys have come up with new a ransomware phishing attack, tricking users to ...

Europol warns ransomware has taken cybercrime ‘to another level’

Sep 28, 2017 1:41:09 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Europol, the European Union’s police agency, has warned of the significantly rising threat posed by ransomware. As Associated Press reports, delegates at an international conference were ...

Data points from Risk IQ Q2 Phishing Roundup

Sep 28, 2017 11:57:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Threat Management Provider Risk IQ released data comparing the use of top 10 brands names in Phishing attacks from Q1 and Q2, 2017. The report doesn’t name the top ten brands favored by ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #38 Scam of the Week: "Fake-tortion" Phishing Attacks

Sep 25, 2017 9:53:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam of The Week: "Fake-tortion" Phishing Attacks

Sep 24, 2017 10:25:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, this is a heads-up about a new aggressive form of email attack that you need to warn your employees, friends and family about. The bad guys have beta-tested and refined it in ...

Equifax appears to be training recipients to fall for phishing scams

Sep 24, 2017 9:48:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs wrote: "More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit ...

Massive Spam Campaigns Push New Locky Ransomware With Doubled Ransom

Sep 22, 2017 2:50:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bleepingcomputer posted: "Reports are coming in from multiple security researchers and security firms about increased activity from one of the groups spreading the Locky ransomware. These ...

Nearly 1.5 Million New Phishing Sites Created Each Month

Sep 22, 2017 7:27:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The September 2017 Webroot Quarterly Threat Trends Report showed that 1.385 million new, unique phishing sites are created each month, with a high of 2.3 million sites created in May. The ...

This Ransomware Demands Nudes Instead of Bitcoin

Sep 22, 2017 7:02:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber extortion is a very profitable criminal business model. Now, as if it was inevitable, someone has added a new, perverse twist: demanding naked photographs instead of Bitcoin, ...

You Need To See This, And It Will Make You Crap Your Pants

Sep 21, 2017 7:32:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You and I know that your users are the weak link, things like ID10T and PEBKAC come to mind. But do you know how bad the problem really is? Some people like to bury their head in the sand ...

Barracuda Advanced Technology Group Tracks 20 Million Ransomware Phishing Attack

Sep 20, 2017 7:21:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Barracuda Advanced Technology Group says it’s tracking a ransomware threat that has so far spawned about 20 million phishing emails sent to unsuspecting users around the world in the last ...

Aaaaand... You're fired (thanks to phishing)

Sep 20, 2017 7:07:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The BBC has a cautionary tale for pretty much everyone who uses email. It’s the story of a finance director who was sacked after falling for a phishing scam disguised as a message from ...

Forbes Technology Group: Training Your Employees Ranks #2 In Preventing Ransomware Attacks

Sep 19, 2017 1:06:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Forbes wrote a great article about protecting your organization against ransomware. Despite all the funds spent on state-of-the-art security software, the bad guys are always just one ...

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