This is the Phone Company: Give us Your D.O.B, Your Firstborn Child...

Feb 17, 2020 8:19:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

SMS scammers are posing as Verizon Wireless and sending text messages telling recipients to click a link to validate their account security, according to Chris Hoffman at How-To Geek. ...

Cyberattacks in 2019 Cost over $3.5 Billion in Victim Losses with Business Email Compromise Taking in Half

Feb 14, 2020 8:35:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI’s annual year-in-review breaks down how 467,000 cyber attacks succeeded in taking consumers and businesses alike for billions of dollars.

It Only Takes One Phish: Puerto Rico Gets Scammed Out of $2.6 Million

Feb 14, 2020 8:29:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Once again, it was the human factor and skilled phishing tactics from the bad guys that was responsible for such a material loss. And, from the sound of it, policy and procedure either ...

Fake News and Misplaced Trust

Feb 14, 2020 8:25:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fighting deepfakes and fake news requires society as a whole to treat what they see with more skepticism, according to Lisa Forte, founder of Red Goat Cyber Security. On the CyberWire’s ...

Phishing Remains the Most Frequent Attack Vector Used for Initial Access

Feb 13, 2020 8:27:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With cybercriminals always looking for the most successful way to carry out a successful attack, phishing once again proves to be one of the most adaptable and viable attack vectors.

Organizations Beware! Cyberattacks are Becoming More Prevalent, Hitting More Device OSes, and are Shifting Focus to You

Feb 13, 2020 8:25:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from Malwarebyte’s annual State of Malware Report shows increases almost across the board, showing that the bad guys are stepping on the gas into 2020.

PayPal Phishing for Passports and More

Feb 13, 2020 8:21:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An ongoing PayPal phishing campaign is trying to steal a wide range of personal information, including Social Security numbers and passport photos, Threatpost reports. The scams were ...

FBI Internet Crime Report Released: The Evolving Threat and Importance of Reporting

Feb 12, 2020 10:42:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center released its 2019 Internet Crime Report, and by no surprise the bad guys and new scams show no signs of stopping anytime soon. Last year the ...

Seasonal Scams: Valentine's Day Edition

Feb 12, 2020 8:37:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Romance scams and confidence scams cause both emotional and financial pain. According to the latest FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) figures for 2019, confidence/romance ...

DOJ Charges Hackers from the Chinese People Liberation Army with 2016 Equifax Data Breach

Feb 12, 2020 6:42:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Four hackers have been charged with hacking the U.S. credit reporting agency where data on U.S. citizens and proprietary Equifax secrets were stolen.

Email Account Takeover Attacks Get Smarter, Sophisticated, and More Patient

Feb 12, 2020 6:38:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data from Barracuda shows attackers take their time to leverage the credential compromise and to avoid detection when taking over email accounts.

FTC Alert: Coronavirus Scammers Love Scary Bad News

Feb 11, 2020 4:19:10 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scary news stories in the headlines always bring out the bad guys looking to make a quick illegal buck.

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #7 Now You Can Learn How to Forensically Examine Phishing Emails and Better Protect Your Organization

Feb 11, 2020 12:09:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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This is the Phone Company: Give us Your D.O.B, Your Firstborn Child...

Cyberattacks in 2019 Cost over $3.5 Billion in Victim Losses with Business Email Compromise Taking in Half

It Only Takes One Phish: Puerto Rico Gets Scammed Out of $2.6 Million

Fake News and Misplaced Trust

Phishing Remains the Most Frequent Attack Vector Used for Initial Access

Organizations Beware! Cyberattacks are Becoming More Prevalent, Hitting More Device OSes, and are Shifting Focus to You

PayPal Phishing for Passports and More

FBI Internet Crime Report Released: The Evolving Threat and Importance of Reporting

Seasonal Scams: Valentine's Day Edition

DOJ Charges Hackers from the Chinese People Liberation Army with 2016 Equifax Data Breach

Email Account Takeover Attacks Get Smarter, Sophisticated, and More Patient

FTC Alert: Coronavirus Scammers Love Scary Bad News

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #7 Now You Can Learn How to Forensically Examine Phishing Emails and Better Protect Your Organization

Most British Breaches Traced to Human Error

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