Smishing and Deepfakes Top the List of Cyber Attack Methods Expected in 2020

Jan 7, 2020 8:54:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You want to know what to expect from data breaches, phishing attacks, and other calculated methods in 2020? There’s no better source than Experian’s seventh-annual Data Breach Industry ...

Business Email Compromise Attack Uses a “Man-in-the-Middle” Email Attack to Steal $1M

Jan 7, 2020 8:49:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dubbed the “ultimate” Man-in-the-Middle attack by security researchers at Checkpoint, this CEO fraud attack shows how brazen cybercriminals can be – and how organizations need to be ...

Ransomware Attacks Step Up their Game and Now Look for NAS Devices

Jan 7, 2020 8:42:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It used to be that ransomware just looked for office files. Then backups became a secondary victim. New data from Kaspersky shows NAS devices are being added as targets.

New TrickBot Malware Attack Leverages Google Drive to Deliver Its Payload and Ensure Infection

Jan 7, 2020 8:37:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New details from Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 research team show TrickBot rearing its ugly head once again, using legitimate cloud services – and employee greed – as its path to success. ...

Penn State Warns of Spear Phishing Attacks

Jan 7, 2020 8:30:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Penn State is warning its community about a recent spike in phishing attacks targeting the university’s employees. Attackers are sending emails posing as real Penn State employees and ...

[FUN DEPT] So, How Do You Say Congrats In A Really Big Way?

Jan 6, 2020 4:45:53 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I was scratching my head. How do you say Congrats to your team when they have done a truly AWESOME job in 2019, and totally knocked it out of the park in the last quarter?

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #2 [Heads-Up] The U.S. Government Issues a Warning About a Possible New Wave of Iranian Cyber Attacks

Jan 6, 2020 10:42:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #02 [Heads-Up] The U.S. Government Issues a Warning About a Possible New Wave of Iranian Cyber Attacks Christopher C. Krebs, Director of America's CISA, the new ...

Business Email Compromise During Tax Season: Spotting and Defending Against Common BEC Tax Scams

Jan 6, 2020 9:44:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tax season is upon us, which makes this prime time for hackers to target your unsuspecting users with the latest Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. From evolved W2 fraud to ...

Security Generation Gaps

Jan 6, 2020 8:48:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

People from different generations tend to approach cybersecurity differently. Organizations should tailor their security programs and phishing tests with this in mind. According to Azeem ...

Announcing A New 8-Minute Training Module - Social Media: Staying Secure in a Connected World

Jan 6, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As you probably know, social media is the number one place that attackers can get intel about your organization to make their "hacking of your humans" more effective. We have been hearing ...

U.S. Government Issues Warning About Possible Iranian Cyberattacks

Jan 3, 2020 2:27:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Christopher C. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning about a potential new wave of Iranian cyber-attacks targeting U.S. assets after Maj. ...

Seven Kinds of Malware, and all Arrive by Social Engineering

Jan 3, 2020 9:25:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Naked Security outlines seven different categories of malware and describes how each of them through social engineering techniques can affect your organization. Some or all of these ...

Global Climate Change Phishbait

Jan 3, 2020 8:54:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A number of phishing campaigns have been using Christmas-themed emails encouraging recipients to support climate activist Greta Thunberg, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. ...

Wawa Data Breach Class Action Filed

Jan 3, 2020 8:48:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There was a massive data breach suffered by Wawa, a convenience store chain of more than 850 stores around the country. Wawa had recently disclosed that it had suffered a data breach that ...