New Phishing Scam Leverages Chat To Add Credibility And Ensure Success

Jul 26, 2024 11:53:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new phishing scam is leveraging trusted aspects of ecommerce to make their scams look legitimate.

Phishing Campaigns Continue To Exploit CrowdStrike Outage

Jul 26, 2024 8:34:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As expected, threat actors are taking advantage of the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last Friday, SC Media reports.

Russian Super-Threat Group Fin7 Comes Back from the Dead

Jul 26, 2024 8:33:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Declared “dead” by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2023, the Russian cyber crime group Fin7 is impersonating some of the top global brands.

Phishing Campaigns Abuse Cloud Platforms to Target Latin America

Jul 23, 2024 1:55:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Several threat actors are abusing legitimate cloud services to launch phishing attacks against users in Latin America, according to Google’s latest Threat Horizons Report.

Phishing Attacks Will Likely Follow Last Week’s Global IT Outage

Jul 22, 2024 2:36:16 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations should expect to see phishing attacks exploiting the global IT outage that occurred last Friday, the Business Post reports.

CrowdStrike Phishing Attacks Appear in Record Time

Jul 19, 2024 3:59:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. But first: Our ...

CISA’s Red Team Exercise Shows Value of Phishing, but Misses the Best Recommendation

Jul 19, 2024 1:52:49 PM By Roger Grimes

Phishing is used to completely compromise the victim’s environment after other repeated methods failed.

Cyber Threats Targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics

Jul 18, 2024 1:41:32 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friends at the CyberWire reported: "ZeroFox and Fortinet have both published reports on threats facing the 2024 Olympics in Paris. ZeroFox says the primary cybersecurity threat will ...

IRS Warns of Phishing Attacks Targeting Car Dealerships

Jul 16, 2024 11:37:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued an advisory warning of phishing campaigns targeting car dealerships. The IRS says car dealers should be on the lookout for targeted ...

Phishing Continues to Be the Primary Entry to Ransomware Attacks

Jul 15, 2024 10:54:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing remains a top initial access vector for ransomware actors, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The threat actors often use phishing to steal legitimate credentials so they ...

[Warn Your Users] High Scam Risk After Failed Trump Assassination

Jul 14, 2024 8:05:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Pictures of Donald Trump rushed from a campaign stage, his cheek brushed with blood from an assassination attempt, are an unsettling shock.

Phishing Attacks Against State and Local Governments Are Surging

Jul 11, 2024 2:01:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Abnormal Security have observed a 360% increase in phishing attacks against state and local government entities over the past year.

Russian Spear Phishing Campaigns Target NATO Entities

Jul 10, 2024 10:00:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) warn that Russian government threat actors continue to target NATO member countries with spear phishing attacks. APT29 in particular has ...

From Policy to Practice in Security Culture: What Security Frameworks Recommend

Jul 10, 2024 10:00:48 AM By Anna Collard

Recently I had to prepare for a governance, risk and compliance conference. I promptly realized that although I used to be quite immersed in this field as an ISO 27k implementation ...

Dodgy New Phishing Platform Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts at Financial Firms

Jul 9, 2024 1:59:55 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Analysis of the latest phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform ONNX Store highlights just how successful these platforms can be.

Amazon-Related Scams Spike Ahead of Prime Day

Jul 9, 2024 1:59:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Check Point observed more than a thousand newly registered malicious or suspicious web domains related to Amazon last month. The criminals are likely gearing up to target ...

Phishing Attacks Target High Profile YouTube Accounts

Jul 9, 2024 8:32:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at ESET warn of phishing attacks that are attempting to hack high-profile YouTube channels in order to spread scams or malware.

State-Sponsored Phishing Campaigns Target 40,000 VIP Individuals

Jul 5, 2024 2:00:10 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Menlo Security discovered three state-sponsored phishing campaigns that have targeted 40,000 important individuals over the past three months. “In a recent 90-day period, ...

Don't Fall for It: How to Spot Social Media Job Scams a Mile Away

Jul 5, 2024 9:24:24 AM By Anna Collard

As social media becomes more intertwined with our daily routines, cybercriminals are using it to trick people with fake job offers. What are these social-media recruitment scams, and how ...

Phishing Attacks Themed Around Popular Weight Loss Drugs Increase 183%

Jul 5, 2024 9:24:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As popularity grows for these proven methods of weight loss, scammers have taken note and have placed a significant focus on separating victims from their money.

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