Human Risk Management Blog

$440,000 Cyberheist Victim Now Needs To Pay Bank's Legal Fees

Talk about adding insult to injury. Brian Krebs has the update, he's been reporting on the legal gray area when cyber mafia steals hundreds of thousands out of a company's bank account. ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Free World Cup Trip To Brazil

The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of ...

Finally Some Good News iPhone Ransomware Gang Busted

Finally some good news for a change. John Zorabedian at Sophos reported the following.

CryptoLocker Clone Serves Up Energy Bill Spam Campaign

And here's another ransomware wannabe that has ripped off the CryptoLocker brand but is something totally different. A recent spam campaign sending out emails masquerading as an ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 23 CryptoWall Comes With Nasty Twist

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 23

New Ransomware CryptoWall Comes With A Twist

We’ll Pay Your Crypto-Ransom If You Get Hit With Ransomware

We’ll Pay Your Crypto-Ransom If You Get Hit

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 22 Ransomware Holds iPhones and iPads Hostage

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 22

Malware creation breaks all records! 160,000 new samples every day

Helpnet Security reported: Malware creation has broken all records during this period, with a figure of more than 15 million new samples, and more than 160,000 new samples appearing every ...

New Ransomware Holds iPhones and iPads Hostage

That ransomware payment is coming out of your allowance

Cartoon: Parenting is very different in 2014 compared to 1989! "That ransomware payment is coming out of your allowance."

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 21 Make The Bad Guys Pay!

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 21

Scam Of The Week: eBay Password Reset Phishing Emails

Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.

Want To Make A Thousand Bucks? Refer A Salesrep To KnowBe4

KnowBe4 will pay anyone a thousand bucks for a referral that gets us a good sales rep!

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 20 CryptoLocker Goes Spear-Phishing

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 20

And in THIS corner we have Dave

I thought you would enjoy this cartoon! LOL Stu

CryptoLocker Goes SpearPhishing

You may be familiar with a site called Spiceworks. They have free system admin and network management software, and their business model is advertising to the hundreds of thousands that ...

Elite Hackers Develop Cybercrime Attack Kits As Market Matures

Today, in the Wall Street Journal, an article told the story of a software product called blackshades that experts call a "rat" (Remote Access Trojan) which was commercially sold to cyber ...

Scam Of The Week: Fake Purchase Orders

This could be a very expensive scam to fall for, so keep on reading.

Microsoft to XP You Are Dead To Us

Microsoft to XP: "You Are Dead To Us". This week, Redmond reminded all of us still running XP that we would not receive security updates on Patch Tuesday or any future patches of any kind.