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Inside The New York Hospital That Was Down For 6 Weeks Due To Ransomware

If you ever needed ammo to convince budget holders that you need more IT security resources, this is the link to send them. It is a great discussion-starter how an attack like this would ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #33 New Study: Phishing Is Still the Top Threat Faced by Organizations

[On-Demand Webinar] How To Phish Like the Bad Guys

Despite all the spectacular news stories about advanced persistent threats and targeted hacks from nation-states, the most common security challenge facing enterprises today continues to ...

SyncCrypt Uses Graphic File to Cloak Ransomware in ZIP Phishing Payload

Emisoft Security researcher xXToffeeXx discovered another new phishing threat adept at bypassing Antivirus using a variation of the game played by PowerPoint PPSX attachment phishing ...

Criminals Use Social Engineering To Make Victims Install Malicious Chrome Extensions

The attackers did reconnaissance on their targets, using social networks which people inside the organization were involved in making financial transactions. These victims were then ...

Here Is A Cool And Useful INFOGRAPHIC About Social Engineering

Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer retweeted a link to well-executed infographic about Social Engineering, and here it is, courtesy of the team at Smartfile.com

New Study: Phishing Is Still The Top Threat Faced By Organizations

The new 2017 SANS Threat Landscape survey from the well-known research and education specialist finds that security professionals rate phishing at 72 percent, spyware at 50 percent, ...

Ukrainian Coder May Be First Potential Witness of DNC Phishing Attack

A lengthy and fascinating article in the New York Times by Andrew E. Kramer and Andrew Higgens on August 16, 2017 reported that a Ukranian coder known to his friends on the “dark web” as ...

Large Insurance Company Settles for $5.5 Million over "Failed To Patch" Data Breach

A large insurance company (Nationwide) agreed to pay a total of $5.5 Million to settle charges brought by 32 states resulting from the loss of critical consumer information attributable ...

This Is A First: Spear Phishing Attack Uses Compromised PowerPoint Slide Deck

Bad guys are exploiting the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability to bypass endpoint security software and deliver the Remcos remote access Trojan via Microsoft PowerPoint decks. This particular ...