Hackers hit Monster Jobs users with Gameover Zeus malware

Mar 27, 2014 7:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Companies that are recruiting new employees are being targeted through Monster Jobs. The bad guys are using malware called Gameover Zeus, security firm F-secure reported in a blog post ...

No Antivirus Detects Russian Malware For 8 Years!

Mar 15, 2014 1:53:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was all over the news the last few days. Researchers with BAE Systems determined that Russian malware known as Snake dates back as far as 2006, instead of 2011 as initially presented ...

Scam Of The Week: "You may have cancer" phishing email

Mar 13, 2014 7:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amy Stevens of the PR group Davies Murphy became part of the story when Eduard Kovacs at SoftPedia picked up on her tweet about a phishing email she just received. If you recently had a ...

Sticking With WinXP? 10 Things You Must Do

Mar 6, 2014 9:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I'm sure you know that April 8 2014, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP and stop creating security updates for XP as well. That means that when after April 8, 2014 another security ...

Pre-installed malware turns up on new phones

Mar 6, 2014 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A fake version of Netflix that steals personal data and sends it to Russia has been found on several phone models

Inevitable: Phishing That Pretends To Be Salesforce.com

Mar 6, 2014 8:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Just a heads-up, screen shot above. The lifehacker site in Australia warned about a phishing scam using a "salesforce" email as bait. The bad guys will use anything to get you to click, ...

Are malware threats making anti-virus software useless?

Mar 5, 2014 1:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CBC News had a pretty controversial headline today. They wrote that some computer consultants say the global malware threat has gotten so bad that conventional security measures, such as ...

Largest Website in Sweden Social Engineering Scam

Feb 6, 2014 6:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

David Jacoby, Kaspersky Lab Expert wrote this blog post yesterday and it shows that employees need to be on their toes with security top of mind even when they visit the largest websites. ...

December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

Jan 21, 2014 11:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec's Intelligence Report for December 2013 is out. To no one's surprise the rate of infected emails is increasing dramatically last quarter, it looked like this

Hacked Chinese Clothes Iron Sends Spam And Malware

Dec 18, 2013 10:22:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now here's something "new and creative!" Chinese hackers have taken a clothes iron (yes, we are talking a steam iron, see the picture) and added a small device that detects Wi-Fi ...

Ponemon: Phishing part of 50% of APT's

Dec 4, 2013 4:10:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

FBI: “Beta Bot” malware kills your anti-virus and steals data

Sep 20, 2013 2:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, the FBI sent out a warning that a strain of malware known as "Beta Bot" can turn off your antivirus, stops access to the websites of antivirus vendors so that your antivirus ...

How Zombie Phones Could Create a Gigantic, Mobile Botnet

Jun 27, 2013 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Seen "World War Z" recently? Your mobile phone might soon be infected and become a zombie.

Avoiding Dodgy Web Sites No Longer Works To Stay Safe

Jun 25, 2013 5:18:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If in the past your way to stay safe on the Web was to not visit dodgy sites like gambling, porn, piracy or other "unsafe district" locations, that strategy no longer works. Google ...

Citadel 'Shutdown' Just A Microsoft PR Move

Jun 9, 2013 10:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was all over the news. The Citadel botnet responsible for stealing more than 500 million dollars out of bank accounts from both individuals and organizations worldwide has been largely ...

46 Percent Of Hospital’S Hacked Money Gone For Good

Jun 7, 2013 1:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chelan County Treasurer David Griffiths says Leavenworth's hospital district stands to recover less than half the $1 million stolen in an online banking theft. About $415,000 has been ...

Interesting Infection Danger Numbers

Jun 1, 2013 10:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec just released a white paper where they compared their product with 6 other enterprise endpoint security products. They had AV-Test do the review, and they included above graph to ...

Facebook 'Fraud-as-a-Service' Promoted Via Google

May 14, 2013 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may have read CyberheistNews Vol 3, #19, which had 'Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream' as its headline. Here is a follow up on that. You can now download apps that hack Facebook, and ...

1st Quarter 2013: 6.5 Million New Malware Strains Built

May 13, 2013 1:30:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Research Team of Panda Labs just reported that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, and that of those 75% were trojans. In ...

Phishing Confusion Example

Apr 7, 2013 12:42:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, yesterday I received this email from my Identity Theft Provider. Been with them since 2008 so I know how their emails look. Normally I get the "all clear" signal once a month, but ...

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