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November 14, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

PayPal Becomes the Most Popular Phishbait

Vade Secure has found that PayPal is now the most impersonated brand in phishing attacks, surpassing Microsoft for the first time, Help Net Security reports. Vade detected 16,547 unique ...

November 14, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Your CEO's Email May Be Hacked And You Don't Even Know It

Hackers focused on CEO fraud (or Business Email Compromise - BEC) attacks often go to great lengths to hide the fact they have access to your CEO’s mailbox as part of a larger scam.

November 14, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Instagram Copyright Infringement is the Latest Phishing Scam Targeting Social Media

Focused on compromising social media credentials, scammers trick Instagram users into giving up credentials and other personally identifiable information with convincing phishing emails.

November 13, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Reuters: "Hackers hit UK political parties with back-to-back cyberattacks"

LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers hit Britain’s two main political parties with back-to-back cyberattacks on Tuesday, sources told Reuters, attempting to force political websites offline with a ...

November 13, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Mexican Oil Company Pemex Dodges $5M Ransomware Bullet

Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on Sunday suffered a ransomware attack that took down parts of its network.

November 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads Up] This New, Unusual Ransomware Strain Goes Exclusively After Servers

Danny Palmer at ZDnet alerted on the following: "An unconventional form of ransomware is being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers – and it appears to have links to ...

November 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Third Party Phishing: The New Spear-Phishing Attacks That Traditional Defenses Just Don't Stop

Joe in accounting is pretty cyber-savvy. He doesn’t fall for basic phishing emails with masked URLs or phony password reset requests. But what happens when Joe gets an email from a ...

November 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

TrickBot Malware Uses Highly Personalized Fake Sexual Harassment Complaints as Phishing Bait

Fake sexual harassment complaints appearing to come from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are the latest baits used by attackers to disseminate TrickBot banking ...

November 12, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

People Need to Work Together to Spot Con Artists

It might not be possible to resist a good con artist, according to award-winning author, journalist, and champion poker player Maria Konnikova. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, ...

November 11, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Resistance for Charities

81% of charities say they’ve been targeted by a phishing attack this year, according to Ed Macnair, writing for UK Fundraising. Meanwhile, only 37% of charities think their IT and ...

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