Heads-Up. New Ransomware phishing scheme lets wannabe cybercrims get in for free...

Danny Palmer at ZDNet reported on a new scheme for aspiring cyber criminals that lets them into the ransomware racket for free, but at a steep 50/50 split with the people that provide ...

March 6, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Scary new malware hides in memory, uses DNS to communicate, and spreads through phishing

Cisco has a separate threat research group called Talos. They just published a report on a scary new form of malware that’s hard to detect. They called it DNSMessenger, and the malicous ...

March 6, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Verizon: "Most Breaches Trace to Phishing, Social Engineering"

BankInfoSecurity wrote: "Ninety percent of data breaches seen by Verizon's data breach investigation team have a phishing or social engineering component to them. Not coincidentally, one ...

March 5, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: Mystery Shopper Email

Steven Weisman, Esq. warned against this scam and wrote March 5th: "Mystery shoppers are people hired to shop at a particular store and report on the shopping experience for purposes of ...

March 5, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

[ALERT] New Massive Wave Of CryptoLocker Ransomware Infections

We all thought that evil genius Evgeniy Bogachev had retired at the Black Sea with his tens of millions of ill-gotten gains after he became the FBI's #1 Most Wanted cybercriminal. Well, ...

March 2, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Moves From #139 to #38 On Cybersecurity 500

The Cybersecurity 500 / Q1 2017 list of the world's hottest security companies was officially released yesterday, Mar. 1. In their "Movers and Shakers" section they stated: "KnowBe4 is a ...

March 2, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It

Brian Krebs just wrote: "A big reason for the steep increase in ransomware attacks in recent years comes from the proliferation of point-and-click tools sold in the cybercrime underground ...

March 1, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

VISA warns for Flokibot Spear Phishing Infections

VISA warned all its merchants that multiple infosec firms reported on the emerging threat of a new malware variant identified as “Flokibot.”

February 28, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Report: 85% of Ransomware Victims Get Taken Offline For A Week or More [INFOGRAPHIC]

New research reveals that the majority of ransomware victims (85 percent) had their systems taken offline for at least a week, costing businesses thousands in financial damage each day.

February 28, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

2016 Exceeds All Records in Numbers of Phishing Attacks

Year over year sustained growth in phishing campaigns produces yet another record number of attacks The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for ...

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