Cancel
Keeping you informed. Keeping you aware.
Stay on top of the latest in security including social engineering, ransomware and phishing attacks.
I had a freelance video PR crew follow me one day at Black Hat, and here are two short clips that will give you an idea of who the heck I am.
Russian APT28 (aka the Fancy Bear hacking group) is harnessing EternalBlue; NSA's Windows SMB exploit which made the WannaCry ransomware and Petya so effective — and are using it to ...
Over two-thirds of Infosec Pros who were asked at Black Hat if they felt their organizations had made the necessary cyber security improvements since the WannaCry and Petya attacks ...
I have been saying this here for the last few years, and I am encouraged to see it now confirmed by a new survey from our friends at Malwarebytes. They released their “Second Annual State ...
Cyber-attacks were up by a quarter in Q2 2017, with a surprising twist: global manufacturing is now the top target. The report from NTT Security also shows that phishing is the most ...
Our friend Larry Abrams at Bleepingcomputer wrote August 9th: "Through a large malspam campaign, Locky is back and currently being heavily distributed worldwide. While Locky was at one ...
According to a recent article in HealthCare IT News, "Ransomware 2.0: It's Coming, and Healthcare Needs to get Prepared", the next wave of ransomware may be much harder to spot, -- and ...
Yesterday, PhishMe's CEO Rohyt Belani came out with a great new initiative. They have created a "lite" version of their platform — they call it simplified — and they are giving it away ...
A UK-based email prankster used social engineering tactics to fool several top White House officials into responding to his messages, including the Trump administration’s cybersecurity ...
More than 4 Billion Dollars May Have Been Laundered If you’ve been the victim of a ransomware attack you know cybercrooks almost always demand payment in Bitcoin. Now we know that the US ...
Michele Fincher from the excellent team at www.social-engineer.com wrote: "In my fantasy life, I’m Ruby Rose from John Wick: Chapter 2, Gina Carano from Haywire, with possibly some ...
OK, this is a headscratcher. This is why we were surprised. I found it in a Wall Street Journal article today (paywall). Bill Burr, the author of “NIST Special Publication 800-63. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
