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May 2, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Cylance: "Phishing and drive-by downloads lead infection methods."

The most common infection vectors are still email phishing and drive-by downloads according to the latest threat report from AI security specialist Cylance. The report provides a ...

May 2, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

86% Of Passwords Are Terrible And Employees Reuse Them All The Time

Troy Hunt, the founder of Haveibeenpwned came out with some brand new numbers that show there's bad news and there's more bad news. A few months ago he launched V2 of his Pwned Passwords ...

May 2, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Massachusetts School District Pays $10K to Ransomware Attackers

"A school district located in Massachusetts paid attackers $10,000 after they infected its computer network with crypto-ransomware. Officials at Leominster Public Schools decided to meet ...

May 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Gone Phishing: Travelers Claims Plan Doesn’t Cover Cyber Losses

Daniel R. Stoller at Bloomberg Law had an excellent observation about the risks of phishing related to general crime policies. Here is a short excerpt and the whole article is warmly ...

May 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

"It can't hurt to open one little attachment, can it?"

Brad Haan sent me this riot cartoon:

May 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

PhishLabs Reports That Credential Phishing Has Shifted To The Enterprise

Why is credentials phishing moving from consumers to the enterprise, just like ransomware has done in the last 2 years? The answer might surprise you. Elliot Volkman at the PhishLabs ...

April 30, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

ModStore Update: "2018 Safe Web Browsing" and "Ransomware"  Localized in 20 Languages

We have some good news! The "2018 Safe Web Browsing" and "2018 Ransomware" module's 20 language versions are now better than ever. As of today, the following improvements are now present ...

April 30, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Gone Phishing: Employer Faces Liability for Mistakenly Disclosing W-2 Forms to Scammer

Attorneys Zuckerman Spaeder noted on JDSUPRA: "When employers are caught off guard, they can face not only the loss of their own assets, but also liability to their employees. For ...

April 28, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: World's Largest Phishing Botnet Grows Evasive

The notorious Necurs botnet is one of the oldest and largest spam and phishing delivery systems in existence. It controls millions of machines that the criminal botmasters use to send ...

April 27, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

PDF Files Can Be Abused to Steal Windows Credentials

PDF files can be weaponized by malicious actors to steal Windows credentials (NTLM hashes) without any user interaction, and only by opening a file, according to Assaf Baharav, a security ...

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