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Steve Ragan at CSO has a great story about a CEO Fraud social engineering attack that was caught just in time because the employees were given effective security awareness training. This ...
Good news for a change. Cisco just posted that they disabled a cybercrime operation that used the Angler exploit kit to distribute ransomware. The takedown shutttered a global ransomware ...
*|CyberHeistNews|* CyberheistNews Vol #5 #42 Oct 6, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Facebook Dislike Button At a Sept 15, 2015 Town Hall Q&A session at Facebook headquarters, Zuckerberg ...
In an analysis done by KnowBe4 of 201,755 phishing emails sent over the past 30 days, it was found men appear to be more prone to clicking on a phishing email than women. In further ...
At a Sept 15, 2015 Town Hall Q&A session at Facebook headquarters, Zuckerberg mentioned that for years users had been asking about a 'dislike button', and that Facebook was finally ...
We just released a new feature that allows you to test your employees for "CEO Fraud" spear phishing attacks. When you create a phishing email template, you can now specify a Sender Name ...
We had a blow-out quarter this Q3 2015. When we looked at Q3 2014 and did the math, we expanded a mind boggling 400% year-over-year. We added 267 new accounts in September only, which was ...
This is a great whitepaper you can download for free at Microsoft written by IT Security Guru Roger Grimes. Here is the Executive Summary: "Many companies do not appropriately align ...
*|CyberHeistNews|* CyberheistNews Vol #5 #41 Sept 29, 2015 KnowBe4 Got A CEO Fraud Phishing Attack. Wrong Mark! KnowBe4 has been warning against "CEO Fraud" emails for a few months now, ...
The criminal gangs that live off ransomware infections are targeting Small Medium Business (SMB) instead of consumers, a new Trend Micro Analysis shows. The reason SMB is being targeted ...
The Miami County Communication Center’s administrative computer network system was compromised with a CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware infection which locked down their 911 emergency center. ...
Last Friday, after years of data breaches by Chinese hackers, many months of negotiations and occasional threats from the White House, while China's President Xi was in DC, the U.S. and ...
Casper Manes at GFI wrote a great blog post that I'm crossposting here. Welcome back to our series for people looking to break into the Infosec field or just learn more about information ...
KnowBe4 has been warning against "CEO Fraud" emails for a few months now, the FBI also calls them "Business Email Compromise" (BEC). I had been hoping we would get one of these ourselves, ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #40 Sept 22, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Deceptive Amazon Account Threat Seeing the fact that Amazon is the World's largest retailer it's surprising that there aren't ...
A new survey done by Kaspersky with participation of 5,500 companies in 26 countries finally shows the real cost of a data breach broken out by Small and Medium Business (SMB) and ...
BitPay lost $1.8 million in a phishing attack late last year, according to lawsuit filed by the bitcoin payment processing firm against an insurer it is trying to get to cover some of the ...
Seen the fact that Amazon is the World's largest retailer it's surprising that there aren't more of these scams, but this one sticks out as particularly deceptive. Often cyber criminals ...
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 ...
In a presentation at the Intelligence & National Security Summit, Bill Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) announced "There have been just ...
