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Charities Need to Watch Out for Scammers

The UK’s National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has warned charities to be wary of scammers, Charity Digital News reports. The NCVO’s Road Ahead 2020 report outlines trends ...

Look-alike Domain Spoofing Scam Takes Charity for $1 Million

In yet another case of business email compromise, a charity is fooled through a combination of diligence, sophistication, and social engineering.

EKANS Ransomware Attacks Focus on Disrupting Businesses Reliant Upon Industrial Control Systems

Leveraging knowledge of industrial control systems, this relatively new ransomware variant is looking to be as disruptive as possible to operations by killing processes and encrypting ...

[On-Demand] Learn How to Forensically Examine Phishing Emails to Better  Protect Your Organization

Cyber crime has become an arms race where the bad guys constantly evolve their attacks while you, the vigilant defender, must diligently expand your know how to prevent intrusions into ...

Not the Antiques Roadshow

Scammers conned a Dutch museum into sending them £2.4 million (about $3.1 million) by posing as a real London-based art dealer who planned to sell the museum a John Constable painting, ...

New DoppelPaymer Ransomware Makes Money Off of You Whether You Pay the Ransom or Not

Taking a page from the Maze ransomware playbook, the creators of DoppelPaymer don’t just encrypt your data; they have found channels to sell if it you don’t pay up.

Law Firms Are the Latest Victims of Maze’s Ransomware and Extortion Attacks

With five law firms hit within just the last week, the Maze ransomware is making itself known and should be a warning to any and all legal firms that preventing an attack is paramount.

Product Update: The New KnowBe4 ModStore is Here

Good news!! The new ModStore is now live in the console. KnowBe4 is excited to announce the rollout of a new and improved interface for the KnowBe4 ModStore in your KnowBe4 console. The ...

CyberheistNews Vol 10 #6 [Heads-Up] Scam of the Week: Coronavirus Phishing Attacks in the Wild

Unusual New Botnet-driven Phishing Attack With Tricky Downloaders

A large phishing campaign is distributing malicious Excel documents and utilizing irritating pop-ups to trick users into enabling macros, researchers at Lastline have found. The campaign ...