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April 3, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Inside A Massive Spam Operation, And Shutting It Down

We’ve blogged before about spammers using publicly accessible databases to help them with large-scale spam campaigns. Here’s what one such recent campaign looks like from the insider. ...

April 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks Go Mobile Using SMS to Increase Attack Success

Compromise-by-Text turns out to be an even better medium for cybercriminals to fool users into becoming victims. A new article from security vendor Asigra demonstrates how and why.

April 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

New York Launches a Cybercrime Brigade

The WSJ in their Opinion section reported about a NY citywide initiative that aims to coordinate all digital law-enforcement efforts. The op ed was written by Cy Vance, Manhattan district ...

April 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Scaring People with GDPR

Criminals are taking advantage of misunderstandings surrounding the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to exploit gullible employees and organizations, according ...

April 2, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Free Tool: Phishing Reply Test Identifies Users Likely to Fall Victim to Fraudsters

Highly targeted phishing attacks, known as Business Email Compromise or CEO fraud scams have exceeded $12.5 billion in total known losses worldwide (according to the FBI). These social ...

April 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

vxCrypter Is the First Ransomware to Delete Duplicate Files

Our friend Larry Abrams at bleepingcomputer wrote: "The vxCrypter Ransomware could be the first ransomware infection that not only encrypts a victim's data, but also tidies up their ...

April 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

The Famous Fall Victim To Phishing, Too

A Georgia resident has taken a guilty plea to charges of hacking numerous Apple accounts belonging to high-profile athletes and musicians and stealing their credit card information, ...

April 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

AV-Test compares 19 Antivirus Tools: Windows Defender Reaches Maximum Detection Score

The German AV-Test lab compared 19 antivirus products, including the free Windows Defender which comes with the Win10 OS. Defender reached the max detection score, which was better than a ...

April 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber Security is About Culture and People, not Technology

Security isn’t just IT’s problem, but everyone’s problem within the organization. The key isn’t “yet another security solution”, but a changing of the way the organization thinks about ...

April 1, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

ISACA Recommends Phishing Simulations and Measurement as Appropriate Defense to Reduce Risk of Successful Phishing Attacks

Organizations are working to limit the effectiveness of phishing attacks using both internal and external collateral and programs. According to ISACA, the important thing is to have ...

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