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In Short: The Necurs botnet is one of the world's largest botnets with more than 6 million zombie machines tied into it. It's run by Russian organized cybercrime and responsible for ...
An employee sent this recent horror story to me (thanks Rachel). Remember there are three ways of learning. :-D Read it in a book, blog (or training session) understand it and apply it ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the past few months we've discussed the rising use of price discrimination among purveyors of ransomware to maximize their returns on ...
You asked and we listened! We’ve enhanced our Phishing Campaign creation options to give you more flexibility and customization when phishing your users! You can now: Phish your users ...
It's all over the press. Here is a quote from Reuters: "Yahoo Inc said on Thursday information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by ...
Earlier this year we posted about Jsocket, a highly malicious Trojan that we spotted being delivered through phishing emails shared with us via the Phish Alert Button (PAB). Although ...
Phishing attacks using false Apple Store email messages, fake landing pages and sometimes fake login pages are still a very popular attack vector. They still make it through all the ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Anyone who works a job in the computer security industry inevitably develops a kind of dark appreciation for the mad skills so often ...
Andra Zaharia (the picture is really her) from the Danish Heimdal Security wrote something interesting this morning that I thought you'd like to know:
KnowBe4's Templates Mistress Katie has been busy again adding a new batch of phishing templates to the collection of "System Templates" available to active subscribers.
Most scams on the internet are "short con" scams, compare them to hit & run. However, "long con" scams have started to show up that can take a few months to finally steal the money. ...
CNBC reported some pretty stunning breaking news. I cannot come up with a better case for new-school security awareness training for employees in accounting and HR. A lawsuit filed on ...
*|CyberHeistNews|* CyberheistNews Vol 6 #38 [ALERT] The FBI Warns That Ransomware Attacks Are Getting More Dangerous And Expensive In an alert published this week, the U.S. Federal Bureau ...
Intel Security's McAfee Labs Threat Report for September 2016 provides insight into the latest security statistics and trends, ranging from botnets to ransomware to malware "zoos." Large ...
SecurityAffairs just published a new discovery that you need to know about. A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) ransomware ...
In an alert published today, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that recent ransomware variants have targeted and compromised vulnerable business servers (rather than ...
Here’s an example of a highly targeted ransomware attack, with bad guys using a phony Bank of Montreal (BMO) template to social engineer possible victims into clicking on a malicious ...
Intel Security today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: September 2016, which assesses the growing ransomware threat; surveys the “who and how” of data loss; explains the practical ...
We are seeing a big phishing wave with a social engineering attack that threatens with a personalized lawsuit using the domain name of the targeted victim. This is an interesting payload ...
Kaspersky has a fascinating blog post on a new strain of ransomware called RAA that is not only fairly sophisticated, but incredibly abusive:
