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A new version of the Cerber ransomware family has adopted new techniques to make itself harder to detect by endpoint security software that uses machine learning for detection. It is now ...
Now, here is an interesting one. Gigabyte BRIX are very small computers, similar to Intel NUCs, that can be used to replace those bulky desktop towers. I am using Intel NUCs myself at the ...
This month, a user on the Atlanta-based 500 million-dollar backup company Veeam community forums reported that they were hit with Samas ransomware. I am giving you the short version here: ...
Our friends at Barracuda run their Email Threat Scanner over hundreds of thousands of customer mailboxes and discovered a highly effective phishing attack that tricks a whopping 90% of ...
Atlanta-based SecureWorks has a Counter Threat Unit which has been closely watching the Russian hacker gang APT28 over the last few years and released brand new research. This group of ...
CyberheistNews | KnowBe4
Perry Carpenter, former Research Director, Security & Risk Management and esteemed analyst at Gartner, has joined KnowBe4 as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. As the provider of ...
Check Point Software blogged about Chinese hackers who have taken smishing to the next level, using a rogue cell phone tower to distribute Android banking malware via spoofed SMS messages.
It was all over the press. Initially reported by Bleepingcomputer and picked up by sites like Endgadget, they all went gaga over a new technique that allows the bad guys to take over your ...
More than 4,000 ransomware attacks occur daily and healthcare is the largest target. However, despite disclosure requirements and the risk of late or no HIPAA notification at all, breach ...
4/28/2017 UPDATE: Facebook and Google confirmed as victims of $100M phishing scam. Story at The Verge. In an update on an earlier post of April 2016, more detail came known about this ...
CyberheistNews | KnowBe4
There was some good news reported in Mandiant's M-Trends 2017 report, but this was heavily outweighed by a lot of very bad news. Mandiant, which is a Fireye company, found that in 2016 ...
A single click was all it took to launch one of the biggest data breaches ever. One mistaken click. That's all it took for a Canadian hacker aligned with rogue Russian FSB spies to gain ...
There is a wave of W-2 phishing attacks going on. We see these coming in through thousands of reported scam attempts via our Phishing Alert Button. The FBI and the IRS have repeatedly ...
Kasperky researchers discovered a new variant of last year's Petya Master File Table (MFT) ransomware, with "new and improved" crypto and ransomware models. Remember, MFT ransomware only ...
CyberheistNews | KnowBe4
A newly filed Schedule A proxy statement at the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Verizon requested a discount of 925 million dollar off the original 4.83 billion purchase ...
A sophisticated phishing attack is trying to get confidential corporate information. Bad guys are sending spoofed emails claiming to be from the Security and Exchange Commission, and ...
