Strange Chinese APT Interest in Buying Batches of AV Products

May 6, 2021 9:40:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Chinese military unit was recently accused of carrying out a years-long cyber espionage. The accusation from Japanese authorities was due to China's People Liberation Army buying ...

New IceID Phishing Attack Targets Website Owners Using Image Copyright Infringement as The Hook

May 6, 2021 9:00:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Spotted by the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, this new phishing attack threatens legal action to trick victims into installing information-stealing malware.

W-2 Form Office 365 Credential Scam Creatively Uses Typeform Service to Bypass Security Checks

May 6, 2021 8:59:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By creating phishing site pages using an online service for building surveys and forms, scammers figured out an original way to trick users out of their Office 365 credentials.

Cybersecurity Spend Is Now More Than 20% of the Average IT Budget As 91% of Organizations Suffering an Attack had Operations Impacted

May 6, 2021 8:58:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report highlights how organizations are experiencing cyber threats and how they are responding to increase their readiness for next time.

[HEADS UP] New Malware Families Found in Phishing Campaign

May 5, 2021 1:36:54 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers from FireEye's security team found new malware families in a financial phishing campaign. The Malware strains are dubbed Doubledrag, Doubledrop, and Doubleback and have been ...

Genesis Market: a Study in the C2C Economy

May 5, 2021 8:55:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Digital Shadows describe Genesis Market, a criminal-to-criminal marketplace that aggregates and sells digital fingerprints to facilitate cyberattacks. The researchers say ...

A Snapshot of the Ransomware Landscape

May 4, 2021 11:23:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations need to take steps to disrupt the ransomware industry by making these attacks more expensive to carry out, according to Jen Miller-Osborn from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. ...

UK IT Decision Makers Fear Their Remote Workers Put Company Data at Risk for Data Breach

May 4, 2021 11:23:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to an annual survey from Apricorn, UK IT decision makers are fearing the worst as their staff continues to work in a remote environment.

CyberheistNews Vol 11 #17 [Heads Up] Mobile Is Now a Big Problem: 97% of Organizations Experienced Attacks in 2020

May 4, 2021 10:14:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Do Ransomware Gangs Restore Data, Even After They're Paid?

May 4, 2021 9:23:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Only 8% of ransomware victims get all of their data back after paying the ransom, according to researchers at Sophos. The researchers found that, on average, victims who pay the ransom ...

May the 4th Be With You and Your Users!

May 4, 2021 9:20:09 AM By James McQuiggan

May the force be with you, May the fourth be with you, may the phish not attack you. Okay, so it does not quite rhyme, but you get the idea. We reach the fourth day of the fifth month of ...

The Cost of Remediating a Ransomware Attack More than Doubles and is Quickly Approaching $2 Million

Apr 30, 2021 12:25:12 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With 54% of organizations unable to stop a ransomware attack before data is encrypted and operations are impacted, the increasing cost of ransomware remediation is troubling.

U.K. Royal Mail-related Phishing Scams Are Up 645%

Apr 30, 2021 12:25:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data from CheckPoint highlights how scammers are using simple shipping-related social engineering scams to trick victims into giving up personal information and credit card details.

Ransomware Operators Threaten to Short Victims’ Stocks

Apr 29, 2021 10:33:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Darkside ransomware operators are now offering to tip off unscrupulous stock traders before they post the names of publicly traded victim companies, the Record reports. The criminals ...

Why Should We Care About Personal Smishing Attacks?

Apr 29, 2021 10:33:34 AM By Roger Grimes

I am not sure what is going on these days, but for several weeks, I have received far more SMS-based phishing (i.e., smishing) attacks than usual.

Ransomware Demands Spike by 43% Already in 2021

Apr 29, 2021 10:33:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminal groups are increasing their automated and tactical ransomware attacks. Unfortunately, that also means they have an increase in greed.

[HEADS UP] Ransomware Gangs are Creating Ransomware Cartels

Apr 29, 2021 10:33:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Analysis by threat intelligence group Analyst1 recently uncovered that the bad guys are responsible for forming a ransomware cartel.

Scammers Target Rogers Customers With SMS Messages

Apr 29, 2021 10:33:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers are targeting Rogers customers with text messages offering $50 refunds, according to BleepingComputer. The Canadian telecommunications provider suffered a widespread outage last ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Cites Cyberthreats as Current “Biggest Concern” to Financial Institutions

Apr 29, 2021 10:25:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fears of a resurgence of COVID-19 and increased cyberattacks are mentioned as top risks that can materially impact the finance sector and the economy, by Jerome Powell in a recent ...

Security Culture Influenced by the Global Effects of COVID-19

Apr 29, 2021 10:25:38 AM By Aimee Laycock

In the Industry Benchmark section of the 2021 Security Culture Report, we describe the security culture scores of each industry sector in detail. This section of the report can be used to ...

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Strange Chinese APT Interest in Buying Batches of AV Products

New IceID Phishing Attack Targets Website Owners Using Image Copyright Infringement as The Hook

W-2 Form Office 365 Credential Scam Creatively Uses Typeform Service to Bypass Security Checks

Cybersecurity Spend Is Now More Than 20% of the Average IT Budget As 91% of Organizations Suffering an Attack had Operations Impacted

[HEADS UP] New Malware Families Found in Phishing Campaign

Genesis Market: a Study in the C2C Economy

A Snapshot of the Ransomware Landscape

UK IT Decision Makers Fear Their Remote Workers Put Company Data at Risk for Data Breach

CyberheistNews Vol 11 #17 [Heads Up] Mobile Is Now a Big Problem: 97% of Organizations Experienced Attacks in 2020

Do Ransomware Gangs Restore Data, Even After They're Paid?

May the 4th Be With You and Your Users!

The Cost of Remediating a Ransomware Attack More than Doubles and is Quickly Approaching $2 Million

U.K. Royal Mail-related Phishing Scams Are Up 645%

Ransomware Operators Threaten to Short Victims’ Stocks

Why Should We Care About Personal Smishing Attacks?

Ransomware Demands Spike by 43% Already in 2021

[HEADS UP] Ransomware Gangs are Creating Ransomware Cartels

Scammers Target Rogers Customers With SMS Messages

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Cites Cyberthreats as Current “Biggest Concern” to Financial Institutions

Security Culture Influenced by the Global Effects of COVID-19

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