[PHISHING ALERT] "Hey Did You See That Fake AI Porn Movie Of Yourself?"

Jan 27, 2018 10:58:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Heads-up. I am sorry to have to bring up a very distasteful topic, but in the very near future your users will get phishing emails with something close to the ultimate click-bait, luring ...

Look out for More SMiShing This Year

Jan 22, 2018 3:07:04 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friends at Social-Engineer wrote a great post that we are cross-posting here, because we see the same problem happening more and more! "With the new year come new social engineering ...

Scam Of The Week: The Most Sophisticated Netflix Phishing Yet

Jan 20, 2018 10:31:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This Netflix phishing campaign goes after your login, credit card, mugshot and ID! Paul Ducklin at Sophos wrote: "Think of the big security stories of recent months. Security holes like ...

KnowBe4 2017 Top Clicked Phishing Test Analysis

Jan 19, 2018 6:29:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Click on the Picture to download the full infographic in PDF format Looking at the whole of 2017, there were some interesting shifts on what phishing emails were clicked from quarter to ...

Forget Viruses or Ransomware—Is Your Biggest Cyberthreat Greedy Cryptocurrency Miners?

Jan 19, 2018 5:53:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, cybersecurity firm Check Point published its regular Global Threat Index. Malware that hijacks workstations to mine cryptocoins has apparently become the most popular infection ...

Business Email Compromise Phishing Attacks Will Exceed $9 Billion This Year

Jan 19, 2018 1:19:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trend Micro reported that Business Email Compromise (BEC) is projected to skyrocket as attackers use more and more sophisticated social engineering tactics to trick their targets. The ...

Three-Quarters of Businesses Saw Phishing Attacks in 2017

Jan 18, 2018 7:09:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tara Seals at InfoSecurity Magazine had a good summary of Wombat Security Technologies' annual State of the Phish research report. "The war against phishing is still on, with 76% of ...

Google’s Confusing Gmail Security Alert Looks Exactly Like a Phishing Attempt

Jan 17, 2018 10:26:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Note: I got this too and had a similar reaction last week. Security researchers say the legitimate email is training people to have bad email hygiene. Richard De Vere, a security ...

Spend One Minute And Look At These Phishing Graphs

Jan 16, 2018 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the first quarter of 2018, after 7 years of helping our customers to enable their employees to make smarter security decisions and having reached the milestone of 15,000 customers, we ...

[On-Demand Webinar] Phishing Attack Landscape and Benchmarking

Jan 10, 2018 3:54:31 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The most persistent security challenge you face today is bad guys social engineering your users. Phishing campaigns continue to be hacker’s No.1 preferred attack vector to get your ...

SNAFU Some AV Tools Cause BSODs And Boot Failures After Meltdown Patches

Jan 10, 2018 7:19:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Microsoft's patch to protect Windows computers from the Meltdown / Spectre "hardware bug" revealed the rootkit-like nature of many antivirus tools. Some AV products are incompatible with ...

One surprising statistic explains why phishing will remain the most common cyberattack for the next few years

Jan 4, 2018 6:37:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing will remain the primary email attack vector through 2020. A new report from Comodo Security Threat Lab's VP, Fatih Orhan, brings up an interesting statistic from Friedrich ...

Report: Most Government Agencies Vulnerable To Phishing

Jan 3, 2018 2:37:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Nearly half of federal agency email domains have adopted policies to collect data on unauthorized emails, a move mandated by the Department of Homeland Security in October, according to a ...

Nearly 250,000 user logins are being hacked every week and become phishing targets

Dec 25, 2017 8:43:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A research team from Google collaborated with the cybersecurity experts from the University of California, Berkeley to scrutinize the activities of these online miscreants. After about 1 ...

Roll back time when users click on a bad link with our new free tool, Second Chance!

Dec 18, 2017 11:52:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wouldn't it be great if your users had a way to "roll back time" when they forgot to think before they click on a bad link? Now they can! We are excited to announce Second Chance, a ...

86% of security pros worry about a phishing future where criminals are using Artificial Intelligence

Dec 17, 2017 12:31:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new survey by Webroot shows that 86% of security professionals worry that AI and ML (machine learning) technology could be used against them. And they are right, because it will and ...

W-2 Phishing Scams Likely to Resurface After the New Year

Dec 15, 2017 4:57:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

W-2 phishing season is just a few weeks away. For the past several tax seasons, cyber criminals have used sophisticated social engineering tactics to dupe hundreds of payroll and HR ...

Trojan Phishing Attacks By North Korean Hackers Are Attempting To Steal Bitcoin

Dec 15, 2017 12:00:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Secureworks report Trojan malware is being distributed in phishing emails using the lure of a fake job ad. A prolific cyber criminal gang with links to North Korea is ...

Basic training in avoiding phishing is no longer sufficient

Dec 8, 2017 9:53:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Databreaches.net has forums and one of their posts really got our attention. It was an official notification from the legal department of Boise Cascade Company in Utah about a phishing ...

Phishing Schemes Are Using Encrypted Sites To Seem Legit

Dec 6, 2017 6:39:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

WIRED wrote: "A MASSIVE EFFORT to encrypt web traffic over the last few years has made green padlocks and "https" addresses increasingly common; more than half the web now uses internet ...

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