The U.S. Government Blaming Cyber Attacks on Russia May Cost One Business $100 Million

Jan 17, 2019 2:02:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Governments attributing cyberattacks to specific countries usually ends in nothing more than a line in a news story. But sometimes these kinds of claims can have unforeseen consequences.

Banking Cyber Heists Celebrate Their 25th Birthday!

Jan 10, 2019 4:10:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the very first cyber-heist, netting one of the first cybercriminals $10 million from Citibank. The tactics have changed, but the target hasn’t.

Children’s Full Personal Data and SSNs Are Being Sold on the Dark Web

Dec 21, 2018 11:46:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New Deloitte Threat Study Shows The Fantastic ROI of Cyber Crime Operations

Dec 19, 2018 9:49:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Deloitte estimates that some common criminal businesses can be operated for as little as $34 month and could return $25,000, while others may routinely require nearly $3,800 a month and ...

Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children's charity

Dec 17, 2018 3:39:06 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Register reported on some scumbag criminals that stole a million bucks from a charity. The editors got very upset with these criminals and freely spoke their mind. The resulting copy ...

NotPetya Causes Whopping 100 Million Insurance Coverage Lawsuit

Dec 13, 2018 1:50:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Techlawx posted news about an astounding NotPetya-related lawsuit, (link at the end). We all remember June 27, 2017, when a major global cyber attack harmed thousands of companies. The ...

SEO Poisoning + Midterm Elections = Cybercriminals Paradise

Nov 5, 2018 9:59:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Compromised websites focused on tomorrow’s midterm elections serve as the hunting ground for cybercriminals looking to take advantage of unsuspecting visitors.

[Heads-up] Here Is Some New Powerful Ammo To Get InfoSec Budget Approval!

Oct 20, 2018 9:33:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The team at Forbes Magazine's Tech Council asked me to write up the lessons we have learned over the last 8 years of helping you keep the bad guys out of your network. It took me a while, ...

Add Wi-Fi Proximity to Your Cyberattack Concern List

Oct 10, 2018 2:18:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest attack from the Russian GRU involves both traditional spear phishing and close access attacks in an attempt to thwart an investigation of the nerve agent attack in the UK.

Cyber Attacks Mean Double the Trouble in 2018

Oct 8, 2018 4:17:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to the 2018 Traveler’s Risk Index, the percentage of businesses that have been the victim of a cyberattack has doubled… and most businesses aren’t even remotely ready.

Is Your Incident Response to Cyber Attacks Useless?

Sep 5, 2018 9:54:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new report from Carbon Black sheds some light on exactly what cybercriminals are doing, and why traditional incident response is unprepared at best.

Well-Known Cybercrime Group Continues Attacks on Banks

Sep 4, 2018 3:07:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The notorious criminal group Cobalt—aka Carnanak—impersonates vendors or partners to gain access to bank networks, with each successful attack taking in as much as €10 Million.

Think Size Matters to Hackers? It Doesn’t

Aug 30, 2018 11:02:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The largest of organizations aren’t the only ones being hit with cyberattacks. Everyone from the SMB on up is at risk and is actively a target.

[INFOGRAPHIC] Cybercrime Pulls In A Million Bucks A Minute

Aug 25, 2018 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than a million dollars is lost every minute to cybercrime. That staggering stat comes to us by way of RiskIQ who published new research showing that despite businesses spending ...

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of Agile Development

Aug 24, 2018 1:02:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys have long benefited from vulnerabilities in any part of an OS or application. Now they’re going a bit deeper and looking for ways to benefit from development cycles.

Organizations Remain Unprepared for Cyber Attack in 2018

Aug 15, 2018 10:41:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With such an abundance of information around attack methods, vulnerabilities, and potential targets, you would think IT has a handle on cybersecurity. Accenture shows us they don’t.

Tech Support Scammers Increase Success with Call Optimization

Aug 13, 2018 11:51:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Like legitimate call centers, tech support divisions, and organizations with inbound calling, scammers are using call optimization to improve callback success rates in tech support scams.

Cybercrime Carbanak Gang Leaders Arrested After Causing 1 Billion In Damage

Aug 2, 2018 11:18:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI announced Wednesday, August 1st, that an international manhunt had collared three leaders of the Carbanak gang. Also known as Fin7, Carbanak specialized in phishing business for ...

Is Your Country One of the Best Prepared for Cyber-Attack?

Aug 1, 2018 1:27:09 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A global ranking of countries exists to demonstrate which are the most committed to raising awareness for cybersecurity in preparation for cyber-attacks. How does your country rank?

WSJ: "Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Power Utility Control Rooms"

Jul 24, 2018 8:23:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now here is some news that concerns me deeply. I knew it was bad, but I did not know it was this bad.

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