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May 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware Attacks Jump 500% as Businesses Continue to Be the Prime Target

Malwarebyte’s latest Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report exposes some trends indicating that 2019 is looking to be the year of the cyberthreat for businesses.

April 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Tech Support Scam Freezes Browsers

Trend Micro has found a new tech support scam that abuses HTML’s Inline Frame element (iframe) along with authentication pop-ups to freeze victims’ browsers by trapping them in a type of ...

April 30, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Brunswick Church Falls For Phishing Scam Of Almost $2 Million

Staff at St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Brunswick say the church was scammed out of nearly $2 million. The church said a phishing email led it to believe that a construction firm ...

April 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Why Marketing Departments Are Cyber Security Targets

Because of what they do, marketing departments are potential cybersecurity risks themselves, and digital bad actors are well aware of it. "Since marketers are more closely connected to ...

April 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

BEC Scams are a Growing Threat to Retailers

Cybercriminals are improving their social engineering skills to target online retailers with sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) scams, according to Rafael Lourenco at ...

April 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Business Email Compromise Doubled in 2018, Topping the FBI’s List of Internet Crimes

Despite the massive uptick in just about every cybercrime category, good old-fashioned fraud via email phishing and social engineering dominate as the threat to be most concerned about.

April 29, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

U.K. Study Finds only 15% of People Sufficiently Know How to Protect Themselves Online

With 80% of people saying cybersecurity is a priority, the disparity between what they believe is important and their ability to protect themselves puts organizations at risk.

April 26, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Cryptojacking Phishing Attacks Target Enterprises With NSA-Linked Exploits

Summary: Researchers at Symantec are tracking a cryptojacking campaign that —for now—seems mostly to affect businesses in China. They're calling the campaign "Beapy," and the worm ...

April 25, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

PDFs Return as Phishbait

The use of malware-laden PDF email attachments has spiked in recent months, internet security company SonicWall has found. Over the course of 2018, SonicWall detected 47,000 new attack ...

April 25, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Scott County Schools victim of $3.7 million CEO Fraud Phishing Scam

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - Scott County Schools has announced the district is a victim of a multi-million dollar online CEO fraud scam.

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