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So I get the Andreessen Horowitz newsletter. It has a topic called "Security is a protoscience (and more on 'so you want to work in security') - Michal Zalewski" I'm intrigued so I click ...
Earlier this week today we assisted several companies that were hit by ransomware. Although companies and organizations hit by ransomware can usually pinpoint the source or employee ...
Several days ago we posted about a new ransomware campaign pushing Cerber through malicious ZIP files attached to voicemail-themed phishing emails. Fast on the heels of that campaign ...
One of our customers received the following email today. It's a clear extortion attempt, they are threatening to execute a combined DDoS and Cerber ransomware attack. These bad guys claim ...
Don't play voicemail messages from suspicious sources. Example displayed in MS Outlook. Image credit: SANS ISC.
CyberheistNews Subscriber Stuart Sanders sent me this: "A friend of mine in Melbourne Australia has been whacked by several crypto attacks on his clients in the last week. He supports ...
A new report by Check Point software's researchers showed that Cerber's Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) affiliate program is a success with more than 160 participants at current count, and ...
REUTERS just reported that the Clinton charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its network after seeing indications they might have been hacked by Russians, ...
The dangerous Locky ransomware is being hurled at a variety of industries, healthcare being the number one target, according to FireEye researcher Ronghwa Chong. We have talked about ...
All user accounts may now be enabled to require MFA (multi-factor authentication) [also called 2FA, 2 Factor Authentication]. Once configured and enabled for an account the system will ...
I have some exciting news: KnowBe4 made it in the Inc 500! To start off with, a very big thank you to all our customers who understood the need to manage the ongoing problem of social ...
While at BlackHat, the editorial team from DARKReading wanted to know more about what we were doing at KnowBe4. This was a fun, relaxed 15 minutes where we chatted about problems like ...
'Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa ...
With the popularity of PokemonGo, it was inevitable that a malware developer would create a ransomware that impersonates it. This is the case with a new Hidden-Tear ransomware discovered ...
Security experts detected and analyzed a new threat, the Hitler ransomware, that doesn’t encrypt files but simply deletes them. Larry Abrams at Bleepingcomputer commented: " It looks like ...
Bad guys are abusing the Social Security Administration's (SSA) online service called My SocialSecurity Account in two ways: A phishing scam which encourages employees to create an ...
The ransomware market is rapidly maturing, we start seeing upgraded strains and rebranded versions sold cheaply in the Dark Web. And mainstream media have finally glommed on after years ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. As we have documented numerous times in this space over the past few years, the bad guys have proven to be relentless innovators, ...
