News about the latest CEO fraud attacks. See how the bad guys actually do this and how much money companies lose to this type of scam.
There is no better budget ammo for new-school security awareness training than this. Attempts at cyber wire fraud, using spoofed email to impersonate a C-level executive or trusted ...
4/28/2017 UPDATE: Facebook and Google confirmed as victims of $100M phishing scam. Story at The Verge. In an update on an earlier post of April 2016, more detail came known about this ...
And another one. You have to watch it, the tax scam season is back in full swing. Full W-2 information including SSN# for more than 1,400 employees who worked over the past year at ...
WICHITA, Kansas - A Georgia man has been arrested on federal charges he carried out an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County $566,000. George S. James, 48, Brookhaven, Ga., is ...
During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, city officials revealed that cybercriminals pretending to be a vendor scammed the city's Accounts Receivable Department out of about $3 ...
We reviewed thousands of domains that have been through our domain spoof test and analyzed more than 10,000 email servers. We found that 82% of these are misconfigured.
Business Insider started an article with the following: "Imagine you've got a meeting with a client, and shortly before you leave, they send you over a confirmation and a map with ...
CNBC reported some pretty stunning breaking news. I cannot come up with a better case for new-school security awareness training for employees in accounting and HR. A lawsuit filed on ...
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate was sued by its own employees as the result of a successful CEO fraud attack where all the personal information of 10,000 existing and former employees ...
For the last 9 years I have been a board member of the public/private Clearwater Downtown Partnership. And as many public organizations, all the board member information is freely ...
Earlier in August, one of the world's largest cable manufacturers Leoni AG publicly confessed that it had fallen victim to a classic CEO Fraud attack that has cost the company a whopping ...
The number of data breaches keeps going up. Last week it was more than 1,000 Wendy's where credit card records got ripped off. Fraudsters quickly use the news release of a high-profile ...
KnowBe4 is expanding fast, we now have 120 employees and we just hired a new controller late May to help out our very busy CFO. Part of the KnowBe4 onboarding is getting through our ...
Don’t be surprised if you see spam coming from the top websites in the world. Lax security standards are allowing anyone to "spoof" emails from some of the most-visited domains, according ...
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week said the scourge it calls the Business Email Compromise continues to rack-up victims and money – over $3 billion in losses so ...
Your employees are being attacked both inside and outside the office. This new email extortion scam called CEO fraud can hit in both places, so it makes sense to warn them about this ...
Here is a great way for C-level execs to lose their job: allow your company to become the victim of CEO Fraud. That happened to the CEO and CFO of FACC, part of both Airbus' and Boeings' ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal Lab Researcher So you've subscribed to Security Awareness Training that includes training modules as well as simulated phishing campaigns for your ...
An interesting Q1-16 threat report from the folks at Proofpoint. Every day, they analyze more than 1 billion email messages, hundreds of millions of social media posts, and more than 150 ...
