“Hired Hand” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Uses Domain Spoofing

Nov 15, 2022 8:59:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sometimes a social engineering campaign has a clear geographical focus, often shaped by language, holidays, or current events. In this case, the scammers are taking opportunistic ...

The Rise in Unwanted Emails, Now Found to be Nearly 41%

Nov 14, 2022 9:10:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How many business emails do the recipients actually want? Or, conversely, how many of them are unwanted? A study by Hornetsecurity looked at this question (along with a number of other ...

[HEADS UP] FBI Warns of Tech Support Scams That Impersonate Payment Portals for Fake Refunds

Nov 10, 2022 3:59:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the latest FBI warning, cybercriminals are now impersonating financial institutions' refund payment portals. This effort is to contain victims' personal information with legitimacy.

Phishing Campaign Abuses Microsoft Customer Voice

Nov 10, 2022 11:28:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Avanan warn that a phishing campaign is using Microsoft’s Dynamic 365 Customer Voice feature to send malicious links. Customer Voice is designed to collect feedback from ...

Three-Quarters of Employees Feel It’s the Company’s Job to Ensure Security, Despite Three-Quarters Also Personally Experiencing a Cyberattack

Nov 10, 2022 9:49:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Even with employees seeing cyberattacks first-hand and understanding the seriousness of such attacks, organizations have a culture problem where users just don’t care.

Ransomware Attacks Targeting Manufacturing are up 52% Over the Course of 12 Months

Nov 10, 2022 9:49:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

While every sector is taking strides to improve their security stances against ransomware and other cyberattacks, the latest data shows that for Manufacturing the impacts are huge and the ...

Cyberattacks Globally Increased by 28% in the Third Quarter of 2022 as the Average Org Experiences Over 1,100 Attacks Weekly

Nov 10, 2022 9:49:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check Point Research provides highlights that color the third quarter of 2022, painting a picture of increases in attack frequency and intensity in every single sector.

Here Is What You Can Do To Inspect SMS URL Links Before Clicking

Nov 9, 2022 4:39:12 PM By Roger Grimes

Phishing via Short Message Service (SMS) texts, what is known as smishing, is becoming increasingly common (some examples are shown below). There is probably not a person on Earth who ...

Cookie-stealing Feature Added by Phishing-as-a-Service Provider To Bypass MFA

Nov 9, 2022 8:50:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service platform now has a feature to bypass multi-factor authentication by stealing login session cookies, according to researchers at IronNet. The phishing ...

[EYES OUT] This Scary Strain of Sleeper Ransomware Is Really a Data Wiper in Disguise

Nov 9, 2022 6:54:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This Data wiper replaces every other 666 bytes of data with junk. Techradar reported that a new data-wiping malware has been detected, infecting more and more endpoints with each passing ...

PhishER Turns Golden Hour Into Golden Minute

Nov 8, 2022 10:00:35 AM By Roger Grimes

Hospital emergency rooms around the world are fine-tuned to meet the requirements of the “Golden Hour”. The Golden Hour is a well-accepted medical fact that critically injured or ill ...

CyberheistNews Vol 12 #45 [EYE OPENER] Phishing Attacks Up 61% Over 2021. A Whopping 255 Million Attacks This Year So Far...

Nov 8, 2022 9:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New Business Email Compromise Gang Impersonates Lawyers

Nov 7, 2022 10:23:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A criminal gang is launching business email compromise (BEC) attacks by posing as “real attorneys, law firms, and debt recovery services.” The attackers send legitimate-looking invoices ...

[HEADS UP] Australia Continues to be Vulnerable to Cybercrimes as Half a Billion Has Been Lost to Scammers

Nov 7, 2022 10:23:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Australia is the new hot spot for cyber attacks. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) recently reported that Australia has been targeted by cybercriminals every 7 minutes, and the ...

[New Product] Users Making Security Mistakes? Coach Them in Real-Time with SecurityCoach

Nov 7, 2022 9:14:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are thrilled to announce a brand-new product designed to help you develop a strong security culture. SecurityCoach enables real-time security coaching of your users in response to ...

Russian trolls and bots are back, targeting Tuesday’s U.S. midterms.

Nov 7, 2022 6:51:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steven Lee Myers at the NYT had the scoop on this typical Russian influence operation which really is social engineering at scale: "The user on Gab who identifies as Nora Berka resurfaced ...

DHL Tops the List of Most Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks

Nov 4, 2022 2:36:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As scammers shift their campaigns and learn from their successes, new data shows that the global delivery service is the current brand of choice, with equally familiar brands trailing ...

New LinkedIn-Impersonated Phishing Attack Uses Bad Sign-In Attempts to Harvest Credentials

Nov 4, 2022 2:36:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With compromised LinkedIn credentials providing cybercriminals with ample means to socially engineer business contacts, this campaign is a stark warning for organizations.

Number Matching Push-Based MFA Is Only Half the Solution

Nov 4, 2022 10:14:34 AM By Roger Grimes

When push-based multifactor authentication (MFA) first came out, I was a big fan. I promoted it as a strong and safe MFA option in my book, Hacking Multifactor Authentication. That was ...

KnowBe4 Wins 2022 "Best Software" Awards From TrustRadius in Multiple Categories

Nov 4, 2022 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 is proud to be recognized by TrustRadius in the first-ever “Best Software” Awards for overall, mid-size, and enterprise in the Security Awareness Training software category.

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