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For this Scam Of The Week, we decided to go out on a limb and run a "What If" scenario" on an attack that we think is very likely.
"I feel like a complete idiot. I just got taken by a LinkedIn spam that may have just stolen my banking password." These words dropped in my inbox, written a while ago by Dan Tynan, ...
There are certain holiday scams we tend to see year after year. This infographic is great to share with your users to help them make smarter security decisions!
OK, Heads Up! This has not hit U.S. shores yet, but it's just a matter of time. This nasty bit of crimeware is being beta-tested in Germany at the moment, and that is where the reports ...
The FBI recently warned against a new cyber crime wave. It's called "CEO Fraud" where cybercriminals impersonate your CEO using your own spoofed domain name, and order employees to ...
Now here is a real IT Horror Story. A brand new KnowBe4 customer which had not yet trained their employees decided to test their staff with one of the new templates we had just released.
As we predicted in our whitepaper "Your Money or Your Life/Files", there is now shake-and-bake criminal ransomware that aspiring Internet criminals can put together in a few minutes. Meet ...
Guys, we have a real phishing problem with this Adult Friend Finder (AFF) hack. This particular adult site is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites in the U.S. and has 40 million ...
Researchers recently detected a clever email-based attack that combines phishing and social engineering techniques in order to trick users into opening a malicious document. In this ...
Residents in Ohio are being "beta tested" by cybercrime for a scam that will inevitably also hit all other states. Here is your Scam Of The Week heads-up. This particular scam will also ...
The Payment Card Industry Council thinks Security Awareness Training is so important that they just published a 25-page guidance paper that fully explains the why, how and what of ...
A new version of the world's most widespread ransomware CryptoWall has migrated to the TOR network. It has been upgraded to version 2.0, and continues to encrypt files so that ransom can ...
The Avast Blog reports a new "password stealer" feature in the Reveton ransomware. Reveton is the type of "police" lock/screen ransomware which falsely alerts users they've broken some ...
You are probably aware of the free one-time Email Exposure Check Pro (EEC Pro) we can run for you. We find all the email addresses of your domain that are out there available on the ...
When your products get targeted with custom made ransomware, you know you've got it made. We're talking about NAS (network-attached storage) built by Synology in Taiwan. the malware has ...
Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.
Welcome to the new world of malware.
OUCH. Verizon said in a report this month that nearly 80% of organizations that achieve annual compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard -fail- to maintain that status after passing ...
