FBI's Newly Release Internet Crime Report Shows Cybercrime has Ramped Up in 2020

Mar 31, 2021 4:17:38 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released their annual report, and the number of complaints have skyrocketed in 2020.

Not Your Father's Tech Support Scam

Mar 22, 2021 10:43:45 AM By Eric Howes

Over the past month or so customers using the Phish Alert Button (PAB) have been reporting a curious wave of what initially appeared to be run-of-the-mill tech support scam emails. As it ...

Cybercrime Officially Has Its Own Global Ecosystem

Mar 17, 2021 2:06:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

From Services, to Distribution, to Monetization, cybercriminals are getting so organized, cybersecurity experts are now beginning to see how vast the relationships and connections really ...

[THIS IS UGLY] A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

Mar 16, 2021 10:50:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

VICE just revealed a 2FA hole you can drive a truck through. A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. This ...

The Evolving Cybercriminal Market Has Given Birth to Impersonation-as-a-Service as Attackers Seek to Impersonate at Scale

Mar 15, 2021 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New research documents Impersonation-as-a-Service (IMPaaS) as an emerging threat where profiles of victim users are available to be used in campaigns where impersonation is critical.

Microsoft Exchange Server hacks ‘doubling’ every two hours | ZDNet

Mar 12, 2021 9:18:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyberattackers are taking full advantage of slow patch or mitigation processes on Microsoft Exchange Server with attack rates doubling every few hours. According to Check Point Research ...

Someone Hacked The Four Top Russian Cybercrime Forums In One Month

Mar 5, 2021 10:52:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Intrepid investigative cyber security reporter Brian Krebs has some interesting news. He said: "Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language ...

Dutch Intelligence Agencies Warn About Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage

Feb 12, 2021 1:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...

Why Small Businesses Often Say ‘Why Bother?’ When Dealing With Cybercrime

Jan 4, 2021 4:32:44 PM By Erich Kron

Well, it happened again. As a security professional, I hear a lot of things being said that are exaggerated or just plain untrue. I’ve become used to that, however, there is one phrase ...

Ransomware Gangs Are Now Cold-Calling Victims If They Restore From Backups Without Paying

Dec 5, 2020 10:16:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Catalin Cimpanu at ZDNet reported on another evil escalation in ransomware extortion tactics. In attempts to put pressure on victims, some ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims on ...

Conman in the Secret World

Nov 3, 2020 8:31:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, Garrison Courtney, a former spokesman for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, was sentenced to seven years in prison for running a massive Ponzi scheme involving dozens of ...

An Autopsy of a $15 Million Heist

Oct 8, 2020 11:33:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A company in the US lost $15 million in a two-month-long business email compromise scam, BleepingComputer reports. Researchers at Mitiga who investigated the attack told BleepingComputer ...

[On-Demand] Your Organization Through the Eyes of an Attacker

Sep 21, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys are out there, watching and waiting for an opportunity to strike. They are gathering information about your organization and users, devising the perfect plan to infiltrate ...

The U.N. counterterrorism chief says a 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in Q1 2020

Aug 7, 2020 4:14:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

UNITED NATIONS -- A 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding ...

6000% Increase in Phishing Attacks Leveraging COVID-19, Healthcare Industry Often The Target

Jul 13, 2020 10:12:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

On July 3rd just before the holiday weekend, Mount Auburn Hospital's IT team identified suspicious activity. Alarmed, they quickly took steps to disconnect the Cambridge hospital's ...

[On-Demand Webinar] Hackers Exposed: Kevin Mitnick Shares His Tradecraft and Tools to Help You Hack Proof Your Network

Jul 9, 2020 8:27:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Months of quarantine, transitioning to work from home, economic uncertainty, social and political turmoil… it’s easy to see why your employees are amped up, tense and distracted. And the ...

It's the Best of 2020! Cyber CSI: Learn How to Forensically Examine Phishing Emails to Better Protect Your Organization

Jun 29, 2020 3:10:24 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Roger Grimes' lesson on how to forensically examine phishing emails received the highest viewer rating of any webinar so far this year. In case you missed it, make sure to watch this ...

The Face of APT Actors

Jun 18, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Javvad Malik

If I were to ask you to picture in your mind a shady criminal organisation consisting of cyber mercenaries, ones that took money from clients, asked no questions, and over the period of ...

Researchers Uncover Six Years of Russian Attempts to Mold International Politics

Jun 17, 2020 4:06:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers uncover six-years-worth of Russian attempts to mold international politics using fake news and forged documents. Social media research group Graphika published today a ...

Phony Data Theft, Like Phony Sextortion

Jun 17, 2020 9:55:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Extortionists are sending phony threats to website owners informing them that their sites’ databases will be leaked unless they pay a ransom of between $1,500 and $3,000, BleepingComputer ...

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