Mysterious “double kill” Word/IE zero-day allegedly in the wild as phishing attack

Apr 25, 2018 6:40:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

“Double kill” is a bragging term from the world of violent video gaming – it means you finished off two assailants with a single shot. In the world of cybercrime, it’s the name given by ...

[NEW WHITEPAPER] 10 Best Practices for Protecting Against Phishing, Ransomware and Email Fraud

Apr 14, 2018 11:12:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations have been victimized by a wide range of threats and exploits, most notably phishing attacks that have penetrated corporate defenses, targeted email attacks launched from ...

Ransomware, Phishing, and Pretexting in the Annual Verizon Databreach Report

Apr 14, 2018 10:44:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Did you know, 43% of breaches result from social engineering attacks? What's more, according to a recent Verizon investigation, phishing emails account for 98% of all social engineering ...

[Heads-Up] Phishing Scam Of The Week: Bad Guys Go Nuclear

Apr 12, 2018 7:28:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, this one is the next new criminal low. This particular phish spoofs a campus-wide security alert for a community college (confidential information blocked out) in Florida. Given that ...

Major uptick in mobile phishing URL click rate

Apr 10, 2018 11:53:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a study of Lookout users, more than half clicked mobile phishing URLs that bypassed existing security controls. Since 2011, Lookout has observed this mobile phishing URL click rate ...

Phishing Tops IRS List of Tax-Related Scams for 2018

Apr 7, 2018 6:15:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Michael Trimarchi at the Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs wrote an excellent article about the continued risk of phishing, as reported by the IRS: "The stealing of personal ...

Scam Of The Week: Fiendishly Clever Gmail Phishing Scam You Need To Know About

Apr 6, 2018 11:28:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Twitter user @_thp shared a recent phishing scam that they received; and it’s so fiendishly clever that it’s gone viral. They wrote: "This is the most clever phishing scam I've ever ...

SAM.Gov Hackers Were Handed Spear Phishing, Spoofing & Credential Theft On A Gold Platter

Mar 31, 2018 6:49:45 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrooks who stole federal payments by hacking contractor accounts on a GSA website used sophisticated spear phishing techniques to steal login credentials and then diverted payments ...

SAM.gov hackers used spear phishing, email spoofing and credential theft

Mar 30, 2018 10:54:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrooks who stole federal payments by hacking contractor accounts on a GSA website used sophisticated spear phishing techniques to steal login credentials and then diverted payments ...

Scam Of The Week: 150 Million Under Armour MyFitnessPal Users Are Now Phishing Targets

Mar 30, 2018 6:52:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

BREAKING NEWS: Under Armour's health- and fitness-tracking app, MyFitnessPal, has been hit by a data breach. Roughly 150 million MyFitnessPal users are affected, Under Armour says. Under ...

US Disrupts 'Massive And Brazen' Iranian Phishing Scheme, DOJ Says

Mar 25, 2018 3:19:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Friday morning the US Department of Justice announced that it had indicted Iran's Mabna Institute and nine of the individuals who work for it. The charges include conspiracy to commit ...

UK National Lottery hacked: Watch Out For Phishing Attacks On Millions Of Customers

Mar 20, 2018 4:20:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The UK National Lottery has warned more than 10 million players with online accounts to change their passwords due to a security breach, The Telegraph reported.

Microsoft: "Phishing still number one method for cyber-attacks"

Mar 16, 2018 11:15:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Redmond states the obvious: "Hackers are going for the low-hanging fruit." Microsoft has just released their Security Intelligence Report (SIR), its annual cybersecurity summary, and it ...

Scam Of The Week: Phishing Madness!

Mar 15, 2018 4:09:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Beware of March Madness, criminal hackers are at it again, after Valentine's Day their phishing agenda has moved to the next topic. They are now spoofing popular March Madness websites, ...

Phishing Is Culprit Behind Vast Majority of Data Exfiltration, Intelligence Official Says

Mar 10, 2018 4:20:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phil Goldstein at FedTech magazine had some concerning news. "A top federal counterintelligence official says agencies must do more to harden their cybersecurity defenses, even if that ...

FTC Study: Millennials Are The Biggest Victims Of Social Engineering

Mar 10, 2018 11:23:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A report from the FTC found that 40% of adults age 20-29 lost money to fraud, while only 18% of adults over the age of 70 did so, challenging the narrative of older adults falling victim ...

[ALERT] A Really Difficult Phishing Scenario That's Very Hard To Beat

Mar 7, 2018 7:08:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I was alerted by a customer about a really difficult scenario that’s becoming all the more frequent. While there’s probably little that can be done in terms of tuning your spam filters ...

Phishing Via Social Media Up 100 Percent

Mar 6, 2018 2:25:03 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fabian Libeau at InformationSecurityBuzz wrote: "The most interesting trend to surface in Q4 of RiskIQ’s phishing report was a 100 percent increase in phishing campaigns leveraging social ...

New Phishing Security Test - See How You Compare to Peers in Your Industry!

Mar 6, 2018 10:42:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We've got something really cool for you: the new Phishing Security Test v3.0!

W-2 information of Scottsboro City Schools employees compromised in phishing incident

Mar 6, 2018 7:28:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - The information of Scottsboro City Schools employees became compromised after a phishing scam hit the payroll department. The superintendent issued a letter addressed ...

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