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What KnowBe4 Users Say About The Service

Feb 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM: Cyali said: "I'll be redoing our security policy shortly, as well as spearheading a project to put together a real IT orientation as part of our onboarding process.

Brand new ransomware strain encrypts files from memory

Security researchers at venture-backed Fairfax, Virginia-based Invincea have discovered a new Russian ransomware strain they called "Fessleak" which delivers its malicious code straight ...

Slideshow: The Worst Of The Worst Phishing Scams

www.CSOonline.com provides news, analysis and research on a broad range of security and risk management topics. Areas of focus include information security, physical security, business ...

Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem 80 million records

Last updated Feb 7, 2015 - Both the Wall Street Journal and cyber security blogger Brian Krebs reported that Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurer disclosed that hackers ...

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #5 Scam Of The Week: Child Predator Phishing Email

Scam Of The Week: Child Predator Phishing Email Just when you think phishing criminals cannot sink any further, you get confronted with a "new low". This phishing scam preys a on parent's ...

Graphics Make Phishing Attacks Work Better

A successful phishing attack has several elements that all together convince the victim that the email is legit and that they need to act on the message. One of these elements sems to be ...

Fake Chrome Update Phishing Email Installs Ransomware

Jerome Segura at MalwareBytes was the first to report about a phishing attack that uses a fake "Chrome Update" to trick end-users into installing ransomware on their workstation. So, I ...

RansomWeb: Cyber Criminals Hold Whole Website Hostage

Now this is a whole new wrinkle in criminal ransomware. Malicious hacker crews have started taking over whole websites, injecting some code to file-by-file first encrypt and then decrypt ...

Scam Of The Week Child Predator Phishing Scam

Child Predator Phishing Scam Preys On Parents Fears Please send a link to this blog post to your friends and family right away?

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #4 Jan 27, 2015 Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Support Phishing Emails

Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Support Phishing Emails The scam is at least 15 years old if not more, but unfortunately this type of social engineering still works. Remind your users one more ...

Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Support Phishing Emails

The scam is at least 15 years old if not more, but unfortunately this type of social engineering still works. Remind your users one more time that emails like this can hit their inbox at ...

FBI Alert: Ransomware Infection Leads To Wire Transfer Fraud

OK, Heads-up! Here is the deal. The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) two days ago warned about a new version of a man-in-the-middle scam that targets your CEO, CTO, CFO, ...

Scam Of The Week: ISIS Attack / 12Mil New Malwares Per Month

Scam Of The Week: ISIS Attack It is a mystery that bad guys have not jumped on this in higher volume. However, a major malware phishing campaign claiming ISIS attacks, has been found in ...

Scam Of The Week: ISIS Attack

It is a mystery that bad guys have not jumped on this in higher volume. However, a major malware phishing campaign claiming ISIS attacks is out in the wild at the moment in Australia.

NY Times: North Koreans hacked Sony with spear-phishing attacks.

The next revelation about the Sony Picture hack: The NSA was already inside the North Korean's networks and could have warned Sony about the pending attack.

Review: Movie BlackHat go see it

I've been looking forward to this one and I was not disappointed. If you like slow-burn high-tech thrillers please go see this movie in the theater because it is worth it. I give it an 8 ...

Train Employees And Cut Cyber Risks Up To 70 Percent

It's a well-known fact that employees are the weakest link in IT security. There is good news though! New research from our friends at Wombat Security Technologies and the Aberdeen Group ...

AV-TEST: "There are now 12 million new malware variants per month"

The AV-Test reported that they found 143 Million new malware samples in 2014 and 12 million new variants per month.

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #2 Jan 13, 2015 Your Blog Scam Of The Week: Court Notice Email

Scam Of The Week: Court Notice Email There is a current malware email campaign claiming to be from law firm 'Baker & McKenzie' that states you are scheduled to appear in court and ...

CryptoWall 2.1 First Multiplatform Ransomware?

There is a new version of CryptoWall out in the wild that I have dubbed "Version 2.1" because it has some powerful new features. Researchers at Cisco's Talos group published an analysis ...


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