IT Security analyst Ben Tomhave calls himself an infosec obsessive and I admire his insightful analyses when they appear. This time he commented on the recent attacks that followed the ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal Lab Researcher Over the past six to nine months .DOC and .JS file attachments have dominated the news surrounding the rise in phishing attacks. The ...
An employee at a Troy, Mich., investment firm fell for a CEO Fraud attack and was social engineered into transferring almost $500,000 to a Hong Kong bank. The error was noticed eight days ...
How Can I See If My Users Have Vulnerable Browser Plugins Installed? Within your console, you can automatically detect what vulnerable plugins any clickers on your phishing tests have ...
Verizon yearly does a comprehensive report on security and data breaches. It is excellent ammo to get budget approval for new-school security awareness training. Why? Hundreds of security ...
If you've been in the IT trenches over the past year, you've probably noticed the announcements of new strains of ransomware are accelerating. The research team at Proofpoint just ...
Yesterday, April 25 2016, we encountered a new phishing email being delivered through Zendesk. The credentials phish itself is a straightforward social engineering attack. The email body ...
Now here's a new hybrid nasty that does a multitude of nefarious things. Proofpoint researchers found that it was built by the same cyber mafia that's behind the Reveton malware. A few ...
In this Scam Of The Week we are warning against a new wave of phishing scams. In the industry this is called the "secure doc" theme. It's getting very popular with the bad guys. We see a ...
Today, news broke that Prince Rogers Nelson was found dead in his home in Minneapolis at age 57. He was found unresponsive in an elevator and was declared dead shortly after. He performed ...
It's the old story. A disaster strikes and 24 hours later you get emails with urgent request for help as hundreds of wounded victims need food, water and shelter. And the bad guys are at ...
CyberheistNews Vol 6 #16 FBI: "Ransomware On Pace To Be A 1 Billion Dollar Business In 2016" CNN Money reports about new estimates from the FBI show that the costs from ransomware have ...
Ransomware attacks cause downtime, data loss, possible intellectual property theft, and in certain industries a ransomware attack is now looked at as a possible data breach. Ransomware is ...
A mysterious update in the behavior of the CTB-Locker ransomware strain alerted security researchers to pull some strings and see what was going on. The CTB-Locker ransomware family, ...
CNN Money reports about new estimates from the FBI that show the costs of ransomware have reached an all-time high this year. Threat actors made $209 million in the first quarter of 2016 ...
OK, here is great ammo to get more IT security budget. Why? This article and infographic make it real to the C-suite that they themselves have a big phishing target on their back. You all ...
