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KnowBe4 Moves From #38 to #6 On Cybersecurity 500

The Cybersecurity 500 / Q2 2017 list of the world's hottest security companies was officially released June 21, 2017. In their press release they said: "Worldwide spending on ...

Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Attackers

South Korean web hosting company Nayana agreed to pay $1 million in Bitcoin after a ransomware attack hit 153 Linux servers. The attack took place June 10 and resulted in over 3,400 ...

[BREAKING] Scam Of The Week: Your Politics Have Been Breached

Gizmodo reported on a blog post by IT Security company UpGuard which revealed the largest US voter data leak to date. Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #25 [ALERT] New Fileless, Code-Injecting Ransomware Bypasses Antivirus

KnowBe4 May 2017 New Training Modules Released

Here are the May releases, with an indication on the subscription levels which give access to these modules: For May we released the following: Common Threats (standalone module) - Level ...

[ALERT] New Fileless, Code-injecting Ransomware Bypasses Antivirus

Security researchers have discovered a new fileless ransomware in the wild, which injects malicious code into a legitimate system process (svchost.exe) on a targeted system and then ...

See Me On Video At The NYSE Cyber Investing Summit Pitching KnowBe4

The CyberWire wrote: Pitches: "Innovation from Young Companies The Pitch Panel was the Cyber Investing Summit's fast round of innovation pitches, moderated by Allegis's Bob Ackerman and ...

FIN10: Anatomy of a Ransomware Phishing Extortion Operation

Cyber security firm FireEye reported that that a number of Canadian mines and casinos were hacked by a group named FIN10 – FireEye labels FIN10 to be “one of the most disruptive threat ...

CIA Director Brennan: "Russia's Cyber Capability Increasingly Sophisticated And Not Bound By Law"

I was at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit at National Harbor, in DC this week. One of the keynotes was by CIA Director George Brennan, who was sworn in as director of the ...

Did WannaCry Ransomware Escape North Korean Containment?

Mike Mimoso at Kaspersky's Threatpost blog raised the theory that the ransomware wasn’t contained properly and spread before it was meant to be unleashed. Malware expert Jake Williams, ...