Cybercrime The World’s Third Largest Economy After the U.S. and China

Jan 21, 2023 9:23:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity Ventures released a new report that showed cybercrime is going to cost the world $8 trillion USD in 2023.

Ransomware Has SMBs Reprioritizing Their Cybersecurity Spending to Combat Attacks

Jan 20, 2023 9:57:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data shows that SMBs can clearly see where they have cybersecurity issues and are taking great strides to put their devoted budget to security technology and services that actually ...

The Current State of Cybersecurity Should Fear AI Tools Like ChatGPT

Jan 20, 2023 9:57:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Malicious use of the text-based AI has already begun to be seen in the wild, and speculative ways attackers can use ChatGPT may spell temporary doom for cybersecurity solutions.

Unusual Blank-Image Phishing Attacks Impersonate DocuSign

Jan 20, 2023 8:59:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An unusual phishing technique has surfaced this week. Avanan, a Check Point Software company, released a blog Thursday morning detailing a new attack in which hackers hide malicious ...

[Eye Popper] Ransomware Victims Refused To Pay Last Year

Jan 20, 2023 7:03:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Finally some good news from the ransomware front! Despite bad actors launching a number of ransomware campaigns throughout 2022, organizations refused to submit and paid criminals an ...

How South Africa's Largest Law Firm Was Fined R5.5m for Not Educating Customers

Jan 19, 2023 2:48:36 PM By Javvad Malik

Africa’s largest law firmordered to pay R5.5 million to a woman who fell victim to a hacking syndicate. When Judith Hawarden was buying a house, hackers changed the bank account number in ...

Phishing For Industrial Control Systems

Jan 19, 2023 8:42:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Mandiant has published a report describing phishing emails that have breached organizations in the industrial sector. Mandiant explains that the majority of phishing attacks are ...

The Amazing Thing Is that DHL Phishing Campaigns STILL Work

Jan 18, 2023 2:23:24 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Armorblox warn that a phishing campaign is impersonating DHL with fake shipping invoices.

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #03 [Eye Opener] Password Managers Can Be Hacked Lots of Ways and Yes, You Should Still Use Them

Jan 17, 2023 9:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Southeast Asia

Jan 17, 2023 8:52:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Group-IB are tracking a previously unknown threat actor dubbed “Dark Pink” that’s using spear phishing attacks to target government, military, and religious organizations. ...

Cybercriminals Mimic Victim Website to Publish Exfiltrated Data on the Public Web

Jan 17, 2023 8:51:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a new twist, threat actors use a typo squatted domain name to increase the chances that stolen data will be seen by the general public after not being paid the ransom.

Government, Higher Ed, School Districts, and Healthcare Continue to be Victims of Ransomware Attacks

Jan 17, 2023 8:51:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An analysis of the publicly-accessible data on ransomware attacks shows that these sectors that were a primary target of ransomware in 2021 continued as targets in 2022 to the same degree.

Cyberinsurer Beazley Introduces a $45M Cyber Catastrophe Bond to Offset Risk

Jan 17, 2023 8:51:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a move designed to protect the insurer and allow for more cyber policies to be issued, this bond is new to cyberinsurance, but not to insurers as a whole.

KB4-CON 2023 Agenda is Now Available!

Jan 17, 2023 8:40:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Exciting news! We just released our full conference agenda for KB4-CON 2023, happening April 24-26 in Orlando, Florida. We’ve brought back some of your favorite sessions and have some new ...

Is Your Organization’s Password Complexity Requirement Strong Enough? Probably Not

Jan 17, 2023 8:15:27 AM By Roger Grimes

Is your organization’s password complexity strong enough?

[INFOGRAPHIC] PhishER by the Numbers

Jan 16, 2023 9:22:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

PhishER, KnowBe4’s industry-leading Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform, takes an otherwise complicated and inefficient threat management workflow and allows ...

[New Feature] Continuously Monitor for Any Detected Password Vulnerabilities Within Your User Base with PasswordIQ

Jan 16, 2023 9:21:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We’re thrilled to announce that the power of KnowBe4’s most popular free password security tool has been brought to your KnowBe4 console as a new feature!

Check Point Software: "2022 Saw A Huge Rise In Cyberattacks"

Jan 16, 2023 8:42:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Techradar reported that cyberattacks saw a significant rise in 2022, mostly due to the increase in organizations going virtual to combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the rise ...

[Ache In the Head] The Problems With Your Not-So-Secure Email Gateway

Jan 14, 2023 9:59:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been doing some research on Secure Email Gateways. The picture is not that pretty. Below I will summarize what I found.

[Heads Up] Phishing Attacks Are Now The Top Vector For Ransomware Delivery

Jan 13, 2023 6:57:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks are now the top vector for ransomware delivery, according to researchers at Digital Defense. Phishing emails can be highly tailored to specific employees in order to ...

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