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September 3, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

CEO Fraud Overtakes Ransomware And Data Breaches In EMEA Cyber-insurance Claims

CEO Fraud—also known as Business Email Compromise—related cyber-insurance claims accounted for nearly a quarter of all claims in the EMEA region, AIG said.

September 3, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Double the Phish, Double the Phun

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Over the past week we spotted something new and interesting in the malicious emails being reported to us by customers using the Phish ...

September 3, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Alert Your Users About Calendar Scams And What To Do About Them

We’ve noted this particular scam before, but it’s continued to make a pest of itself, and so we bring it to your attention again. Scammers are abusing Google Calendar invites to send out ...

August 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Scheme Gains Entry To Oregon Judicial Department Emails

Aubrey Wieber at the DemocratHerald reported: "A phishing scheme succeeded in breaking into the email accounts of five Oregon Judicial Department employees, exposing personal information ...

August 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

AI Used For Social Engineering. Fraudsters Mimic CEO’s Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case | WSJ

Catherine Stupp at the Wall Street Journal reported on something we have predicted would happen in this blog. The article started out with:

August 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

New Course Available - California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Last year California passed a new law, similar to GDPR, called the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018. This law is to be implemented on January 1, 2020. Any company doing ...

August 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

New ransomware grows 118% as cybercriminals adopt fresh tactics and code innovations

McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 2019, and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code.

August 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware Criminals Hack Dental Software Company And Take Hundreds Of Customers' Systems Hostage

Hundreds of dental practice offices in the US have had their computers infected with ransomware this week, ZDNet has learned from a source.

August 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Why Are Insurance Companies Insisting To Pay Ransom For Ransomware Attacks?

This week, ProPublica published a report describing how insurance companies now prefer to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars / pounds / Euros in ransom to minimize the detriment ...

August 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Financial Phishing Campaigns on the Rise

More than 1900 new potential bank phishing sites were registered in the first half of 2019, according to researchers at NormShield. Based on the increase in new suspicious domains ...

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