Phishing Attack on German Steel Factory System Caused Massive Damage

Dec 23, 2014 3:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers breached security of a German steel mill's network and caused considerable damage by manipulating the controls of a blast furnace. The attackers gained access to the network ...

Staples: 6-Month Malware Breach, 1.16 Million Cards

Dec 20, 2014 11:36:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Office supply chain Staples Inc. today finally acknowledged that a malware intrusion by hackers this year at some of its stores resulted in a credit card breach. The company now says some ...

Scam Of The Week: Spike In Hoax News Spreading Malware

Dec 13, 2014 10:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The year 2014 has seen a boom on hoax news stories, as these are particularly successful social engineering tactics used by hackers to get people to click on links, and worse, share the ...

Sony The First To Be Hit With Destructive Payload

Dec 2, 2014 9:34:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sony has been hacked several times, and should have learned their lesson a while ago, but no. This time it is really bad though. Late yesterday the FBI warned U.S. business that the ...

Scam Of The Week: "Shipping Problem"

Nov 29, 2014 10:42:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us. After losing ground to online competitors, brick-and-mortar retailers have struck back with incredible online deals. Wal-Mart said ...

Homeland Security: Security Education Deterred Cybercrime

Nov 26, 2014 12:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Homeland Security Today has a good article which explains that cybersecurity education, including employee training and awareness programs, is vital in deterring cybercrime. The ...

The New Stuxnet Discovered Called Regin How Does It Work?

Nov 24, 2014 10:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Software Support Cybercrime Scam

Nov 22, 2014 9:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week the FTC shut down a $120M tech support scam that consumer software buyers should be aware of. Two telemarketing firms were at the center of this FTC investigation, but there are ...

STATE DEPT COMPUTERS HACKED, EMAIL SHUT DOWN

Nov 17, 2014 9:33:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Associated Press just reported that the State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from ...

Home Depot Hackers Also Steal 53 Million Email Addresses

Nov 7, 2014 8:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As if it wasn't bad enough to lose 56 million credit card accounts, now Home Depot has to admit it also lost 53 million email addresses. This gives the bad guys a fabulous opportunity to ...

The Next Advanced Cybercrime Service

Nov 2, 2014 9:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here is a mock-up ad for a new real service that became available for cyber criminals recently:

Koler Android Ransomware Now Spreads in U.S. as Text Worm

Oct 25, 2014 10:33:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Android phones have by far the largest market share, and thus are mobile malware target #1. There is now a new variant of the Koler malware that spreads itself via text messages and holds ...

Ad-borne Cryptowall Ransomware Claims Fresh Victims

Oct 23, 2014 4:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The phones have been ringing off the hook here at KnowBe4. Not customers of ours but people that were hit with CryptoWall V2.0, needed bitcoin urgently, did a websearch and wound up with ...

What's -Really- The #1 Hot Security Topic?

Oct 22, 2014 10:22:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...

Survey Finds Half of Holiday Shoppers Will Avoid Hacked Stores

Oct 21, 2014 10:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Huffington Post Survey: "As another holiday shopping frenzy nears, a new survey suggests that many consumers plan to avoid the growing number of retailers that have been hacked.

Russian Cybercrime Rakes In $2.5 Billion These Last 12 Months

Oct 18, 2014 12:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a Russian outfit called Group-IB. They released a report October 15th which goes into great detail on how Russian cybercrime makes its money. The picture is not pretty but very ...

Ransomware hits admin workstation and kills 7 servers

Oct 15, 2014 2:53:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I wanted to share a horror story with you, something that happened to somebody the day before yesterday. This is what happened in their own words:

Why All This Russian Cybercrime in Five Minutes

Oct 9, 2014 6:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We all know that a large amount of cybercrime originates in Russia and other eastern European countries that were former USSR states. But why is that? I decided to dig into this and did ...

Poll: Employees Clueless About Social Engineering

Oct 2, 2014 2:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fresh from Dark reading: "When it comes to social engineering, Pogo, the central character of a long-running American comic strip, said it best. "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Who Is The Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity of 2014?

Oct 2, 2014 10:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

No, it's not who you think. In recent year it was always a female celebrity like Emma Watson, Heidi Klum or Cameron Diaz that lured web surfers to sites laced with malware. At the end of ...

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