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May 3, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware Causes 90-day Downtime And 700K Damages For Law Firm

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Cybercriminals held a Providence law firm hostage for months by encrypting its files and demanding $25,000 in ransom paid in Bitcoin to restore access, according to a ...

April 29, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Facebook and Google Were Victims of 100 Million-Dollar Phishing Scam

We have been reporting on this massive Cyberheist for a while now, but Fortune Magazine decided to unleash their investigative reporters and find out exactly who those two mysterious ...

April 29, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

America Ponies Up: Ransomware Payments Rise To $1,077 Per Infection

America was the victim of 34 percent of global ransomware infections in 2016. The "why" is clear; a whopping 64 percent of Americans are willing to pay to get their files back, as opposed ...

April 27, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Northrop Grumman can make a stealth bomber – but falls for W-2 phishing attack

US military contractor Northrop Grumman notified their employees that hackers managed to gain access to their W-2 tax records. As The Register just reported, the makers of America’s ...

April 25, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Newark City Hall Computers Infected With Ransomware

NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — . The City of Newark’s computer system has been disabled by hackers demanding thousands in ransom money, according to a published report. Hackers are demanding ...

April 25, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber Insurer Beazley Sees New Phishing Threats Emerge

New York, April 25, 2017 - Beazley, a pioneer in cyber and data breach response insurance, today released its Beazley Breach Insights – April 2017 findings based on its response to client ...

April 25, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

French Presidential Candidate Target Of Russian Hacker Phishing Attack

The French presidential election has been hit with a case of déjà vu. Emmanuel Macron's campaign said its staff received phishing emails meant to steal their passwords. Trend Micro said ...

April 24, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

This Week's Top "In The Wild" Phishing Attacks

And here are this week's Top 10 "In The Wild" phishing attacks that we received from our customers by employees clicking the Phish Alert Button and sending the email to us for analysis. ...

April 23, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

U.S. Court Sentences Russian Hacker to a Record-Setting 27 Years

On Friday, a Seattle Federal District Court judge sentenced 32 year old Roman Valerevich Seleznev to 27 years in prison for running a vast credit card and identity theft operation, ...

April 22, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

And Just When You Thought Locky Ransomware Had Disappeared...

Locky ransomware reappeared with a vengeance Friday, this time not using Office documents combined with social engineering to have the user enable macros, but with a PDF that has a Word ...

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