New Cyber Attack Trends Report Reveals That Digital Criminals Made Off With $45 Billion in 2018

Jul 23, 2019 10:27:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scott Ikeda at CPO Magazine posted insights about a new report on cyber attack trends which combines information from a number of high-level sources. It reveals a startling amount of ...

[LIVE WEBINAR] Hacking Your Organization: 7 Steps Bad Guys Use to Take Total Control of Your Network

Jul 16, 2019 8:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The scary fact is that human error is a contributing factor in more than 90% of breaches. With so many technical controls in place hackers are still getting through to your end ...

UK Mid-Sized Firms Lost £30bn to CyberAttacks in 2018

Jul 16, 2019 7:24:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phil Muncaster at InfoSec Mag reported that "Cybersecurity incidents have cost UK mid-market firms a combined £30bn over the past year as automated attacks become the norm, according to ...

“Lack of Security Awareness” a Major Reason Why Financial Firms Are 300 Time More Likely to Fall Prey to Cyberattacks

Jul 8, 2019 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys always go where the money is. And financial firms are grossly ill-prepared for cyberattacks and suffer higher costs in addressing successful attacks. Boston Consulting Group ...

One more reason to keep your money stuffed under your mattress?

Jul 5, 2019 4:30:59 PM By Eric Howes

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Every so often someone flags an email with our Phish Alert Button that isn't a phishing email but is still very interesting. In this ...

ATM Card Number Scammer Sentenced to 32 Months in Prison

Jul 3, 2019 10:41:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The story of one text-based scam shows how easy it is for literally anyone to become a cybercriminal. It also shows how the amateurs should leave it to the professionals.

[Heads-up] The U.S. Launched A Cyber Attack On Iran, And We're Expecting Spear Phishing Strike Backs

Jun 23, 2019 11:30:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The tension in the Middle-East apparently prompted a game-changing move by the U.S. President. Washington Post sources say exactly 10 years after Stuxnet, the President approved a ...

FBI Alert: Last Week Conflict With Iran Can Cause Spear Phishing Retaliation

Jun 22, 2019 10:34:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This blog post has been superseded by a more recent one. You can find this new post here.

Why Do Organizations Still Under-report Cybercrime?

Jun 21, 2019 9:48:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It’s estimated that organizations aren’t engaging with Law Enforcement when becoming a victim of a cybercrime in large numbers. We cover 5 reasons why organizations don’t.

Massive Cyberheist Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector

Jun 20, 2019 6:48:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

AMCA, a medical billing collections agency that was hacked last year in an incident believed to impact millions of medical patients is now seeking a federal bankruptcy court’s protection ...

Europol Reminder on Ticket Fraud

Jun 12, 2019 4:42:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Offers that sound too good to be true probably are. It’s an old saw, but one that’s worth revisiting. The too-good-to-be-true offers are most likely fraudulent, according to an alert ...

'BlueKeep' Microsoft Windows Flaw Warning from NSA, Video for How To Patch

Jun 7, 2019 3:16:45 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Microsoft recently released a fix for for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services - that affects older versions of Microsoft ...

Global GozNym Takedown Shows The Anatomy Of A Modern Cybercrime Supply Chain

May 17, 2019 7:12:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Javvad Malik, our new Security Awareness Advocate for EMEA. A multi-national collaborative law enforcement effort has arrested individuals allegedly behind Nymaim and Gozi, also known ...

Executives are Out and Employees are In as Cybercriminals Change Their Primary Targets for Cyberattack

Apr 24, 2019 7:18:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing and Social Engineering scammers are shifting tactics, focusing efforts on low-level employees using a variety of methods as a means to cast a wider net within a targeted ...

A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers And Dumping Their Code

Apr 18, 2019 5:00:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Alyssa Foote at WIRED wrote: "NEARLY THREE YEARS after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA's hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open ...

Phishing Attack Spoofs Email Security Firm

Apr 16, 2019 10:50:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ray Shultz at MediaPost's EmailINSIDER wrote about a nasty new way that the bad guys are trying to establish trust: spoofing the return path and received email headers of Barracuda in an ...

Organizations Face a 63% Likelihood of Being the Victim of Successful Cyberattack in Next 12 Months

Apr 10, 2019 6:27:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from 1,200 IT organizations shows organizations seeing attacks as inevitable and, for some industries, successful compromise as even more a given.

Tallahassee Loses Half a Million From Cyberattack

Apr 9, 2019 9:46:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers stole approximately $498,000 from the city of Tallahassee, Florida, by diverting city employees’ paychecks, according to USA Today. The attackers hacked a third-party vendor that ...

Cybercrime market selling full digital fingerprints of over 60,000 users

Apr 9, 2019 6:49:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ZDNet reported something surprising. A new dark web market called Genesis is selling users' personal data, complete with digital fingerprints, such as account credentials, cookies, ...

The Total Risk Value of Cybercrime Has Risen to $5.2 Trillion Over the Next Five Years

Apr 8, 2019 6:55:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to new data from Accenture, the average company sees 145 security breaches annually, with the cost of experiencing any kind of cyberattack rising.

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New Cyber Attack Trends Report Reveals That Digital Criminals Made Off With $45 Billion in 2018

[LIVE WEBINAR] Hacking Your Organization: 7 Steps Bad Guys Use to Take Total Control of Your Network

UK Mid-Sized Firms Lost £30bn to CyberAttacks in 2018

“Lack of Security Awareness” a Major Reason Why Financial Firms Are 300 Time More Likely to Fall Prey to Cyberattacks

One more reason to keep your money stuffed under your mattress?

ATM Card Number Scammer Sentenced to 32 Months in Prison

[Heads-up] The U.S. Launched A Cyber Attack On Iran, And We're Expecting Spear Phishing Strike Backs

FBI Alert: Last Week Conflict With Iran Can Cause Spear Phishing Retaliation

Why Do Organizations Still Under-report Cybercrime?

Massive Cyberheist Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector

Europol Reminder on Ticket Fraud

'BlueKeep' Microsoft Windows Flaw Warning from NSA, Video for How To Patch

Global GozNym Takedown Shows The Anatomy Of A Modern Cybercrime Supply Chain

Executives are Out and Employees are In as Cybercriminals Change Their Primary Targets for Cyberattack

A Mystery Agent Is Doxing Iran's Hackers And Dumping Their Code

Phishing Attack Spoofs Email Security Firm

Organizations Face a 63% Likelihood of Being the Victim of Successful Cyberattack in Next 12 Months

Tallahassee Loses Half a Million From Cyberattack

Cybercrime market selling full digital fingerprints of over 60,000 users

The Total Risk Value of Cybercrime Has Risen to $5.2 Trillion Over the Next Five Years

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