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 ...

Fraudsters Are Exploiting Newborns and Recently Deceased People

Jun 12, 2020 9:21:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Criminals are crafting detailed fake identities using data belonging to newly born and recently deceased people, according to Sanjay Gupta, Vice President, Global Head of Products and ...

[HEADS UP] Cybercriminals in Australia Harass Recipients with Abusive Transaction Descriptions on Bank Statements

Jun 4, 2020 4:59:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There are bad guys in Australia that have given away money in order to use social engineering and harass people with abusive transaction descriptions that appear in online banking ...

Pandemics, Killer Insects, and Riots Stir Up Cybercriminals

Jun 3, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Erich Kron

What a year 2020 has been. We have not even gotten half way into the year and we have dealt with a global pandemic, potential murder hornets, protests and riots and even the possibility ...

How Low Will Cybercriminals Go?

Jun 2, 2020 8:58:04 AM By Javvad Malik

Surely Bond villains only exist in movies -- I mean people aren’t truly evil are they? Especially ones who sit behind a computer. This was part of a discussion I was having with my ...

Zelle Users Continue to be the Target of Scams Intent on Fraud

May 4, 2020 7:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The wildly popular payment app is a cybercriminals playground where users are easy prey for money laundering, scams, mules, and just plain old fraud.

'Florentine Baker Group' Use Microsoft 365 Functionality to Scam Private Equity Firm Out of $1.2 Million

Apr 24, 2020 11:31:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new investigation by Check Point’s Incident Response Team (CPIRT) demonstrates how brazen cybercriminals are and the lengths they will go to in order to see their scam succeed.

A new ransomware strain called 'Save the Queen’, distributes itself from your own Domain Controllers

Apr 2, 2020 1:47:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sophisticated cybercriminals have continuously improved the effectiveness of ransomware attacks, according to Yaki Faitelson, co-founder and CEO of Varonis. In an article for Forbes, ...

Brand Impersonation Phishing Attacks Grow While Organizations Fail to Protect Their Brand Using DMARC

Mar 23, 2020 4:08:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data from Security vendor Agari shows how identity deception techniques are being used to fool recipient victims as organizations lack the needed safeguards to ensure emails are ...

An Intimate Look at a Nigerian Social Engineer

Mar 23, 2020 10:05:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Check Point offer a look at a Nigerian citizen who moonlights as a cybercriminal who uses social engineering techniques. The man, whom the researchers call “Dton,” ...

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