DELL Warns Against Social Engineering

Jul 26, 2014 9:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dell has its own news site called Tech Page One. A few days ago they had a new article that started with: "Human errors that aid social engineers. The weakest links in computer networks ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 29 Scam Of The Week: MH17 Airplane Crash

Jul 22, 2014 9:56:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 29

Scam Of The Week: MH17 Airplane Crash

Jul 22, 2014 7:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Almost 300 people get shot out of the air and the only thing cyber-criminals can think of is how to exploit the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting.

Phishing Scam Of The Week: "Transportation Manager"

Jul 20, 2014 4:14:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Unscrupulous eastern European cyber mafias are preying on U.S. workers that try to make ends meet and look for a second (or third) job. This is not a new scam, but it is sticking up its ...

Cryptolocker Is Not Dead

Jul 17, 2014 1:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tyler Moffitt, Threat Team Member at Webroot wrote:

ALERT: Ransomware Infection = Official Data Breach

Jul 16, 2014 4:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is one of the rare Cyberheist NewsFlash issues that we send when we run into something important enough to alert you about right away. Please forward to your friends and colleagues.

Brokerage house Gets Hit With CryptoWall Ransomware

Jul 15, 2014 3:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The brokerage house, Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., announced this week that they had suffered a data breach. May 24, 2014 they had their computer systems compromised by an unauthorized ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 28 Five Travel Scams Of The Week

Jul 15, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 28

Five Travel Scams Of The Week

Jul 14, 2014 12:33:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's summer and a lot of people are on the road, but some of your employees are always traveling for business, and often these are management-level people with access to lots of ...

KnowBe4 Is Hiring A Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

Jul 8, 2014 5:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are hiring a Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 27 Prepare For High-Stakes Cyber Ransom

Jul 8, 2014 9:17:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 27

CyberheistNews Vol 4, 26 Scam: You Are Summoned To Court

Jul 8, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 26

[InfoGraphic] Ransomware Threats Concern Survey

Jul 8, 2014 7:43:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We surveyed over 300 system administrators regarding ransomware, here are the results:

Fascinating Phishing Attack On Bitcoin Auction Bidders

Jul 7, 2014 1:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ever hear of CoinDesk? They are a news site about pricing and other info about digital currencies. They reported a fascinating phishing attack on a list of auction participants.

The Evolution of Mobile Ransomware

Jul 3, 2014 1:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major cyberattack. Like PCs back in the early days -- the 1990s -- mobile phones are largely unprotected by ...

Phishing Websites Up 10 percent First Quarter 2014

Jul 3, 2014 11:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The United States continued to host the majority of phishing websites in the first quarter of 2014, but did not even crack the top 36 when it came to global computer infection rates, ...

Prepare yourself for high-stakes cyber ransom

Jul 2, 2014 11:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Roger Grimes over at InfoWorld did a great write-up about the state of cyber ransom these days. He also went back in history for a while and gives the factors that have led up to the ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: You Are Summoned To Court

Jun 28, 2014 11:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The AppRiver team dsicovered an increase in phishing scams containing the Zortob Trojan. The new surge uses an existing successful scam, which warns the victim that they've been ordered ...

New KnowBe4 Survey Shows IT Pros Concern About Ransomware Skyrocketing

Jun 27, 2014 4:11:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security Awareness Training and Backup Voted Most Effective Solutions to Combat CryptoLocker

PLEASE WHITELIST OUR NEW EMAIL SERVERS

Jun 27, 2014 2:08:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

First week of July we will cut over to a new mailserver, which allows us to use different "hover-domains" (meaning a user sees something else than the domain we used as the default up to ...

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