Report: Phishing costs average organization $3.7 million per year

Aug 29, 2015 12:14:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you extrapolate the total annual cost of phishing for the average organization it comes to more than $3.7 million. You could shave that down by $1.8 million though, with the right ...

What Is Worse Than Ransomware? Business Email Compromise

Aug 28, 2015 9:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You are getting your Scam Of The Week early. Yesterday, the FBI via their Internet Crime Complaint Center announced some shocking numbers. There is a 270 percent spike in victims and cash ...

Phishing Alert: Warn Your Users Against Ashley Madison Scams Now

Aug 20, 2015 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Your end-users saw this in the news yesterday, or will read about it today. The hackers who stole more than 36 million records from the Ashley Madison site (which makes it easy to cheat ...

Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist

Aug 7, 2015 4:31:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs just reported on a massive $46M Cyberheist. Networking firm Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed this week that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly ...

Scam Of The Week: Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade Installs Ransomware.

Aug 3, 2015 11:33:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Major Operating System upgrades are usually a cause of confusion among end-users and the current Windows 10 upgrade is no exception. The bad guys exploit these confusions in several ways, ...

AshleyMadison: Second Nightmare Phishing Problem

Jul 20, 2015 8:06:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

8/19/2015 UPDATE: Yesterday the full 10 Gigabyte database was released on the Internet, with all records including confidential files related to the company itself. People that registered ...

Aggressive New Tech Support Social Engineering Scam

Jul 15, 2015 6:10:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Tech Support Scams are getting worse by the month. Here is a horror story that was just shared today. I suggest you read it, and keep alert for Red Flags like these! "My dad almost ...

Spear Phishing Attack Results In $5.3 Million Bitcoin Cyberheist

Jul 9, 2015 2:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

"Newly leaked, confidential documents have revealed details into a cyberattack aimed at Bitstamp, a company that fundamentally deals as a cryptocurrency trader, according to a report in ...

OPM Phishing Attack: "Your Data Was Hacked, How To Protect Yourself"

Jul 3, 2015 10:24:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

And yes, as we predicted, there are now phishing attacks that mimic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach notifications. The breach has expanded to millions more records. It ...

Magazine publisher loses $1.5M in phishing scam

Jun 20, 2015 9:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber-criminals have social engineered magazine publisher Bonnier Group out of at least $1.5m after hacking the CEO’s email. The total damage could be as much as $3.0 million. Bonnier ...

Ransomware Resume Phishing Security Test Gets Monster Open Rate

Jun 19, 2015 11:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now here is a real IT Horror Story. A brand new KnowBe4 customer which had not yet trained their employees decided to test their staff with one of the new templates we had just released.

LastPass Hacked. Be Alert For Phishing Attacks

Jun 16, 2015 9:28:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

LastPass, the popular online password management service has been hacked and data was stolen, including the password hints, which is why you need to be alert for scams trying to exploit ...

Gone phishing: How I taught my users to stop clicking everything

Jun 13, 2015 11:24:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Familiar with SpiceWorks? It's the world's largest IT Admin community. One user wrote the 392nd entry in their Spotlight on IT. This is the story. There is a link at the end to the ...

The Truth About The Massive OPMgate Hacking Scandal

Jun 13, 2015 9:17:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The recent U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management hack is getting worse by the day. In Saturday's Wall Street Journal they revealed that apart from more than 4 million personal ...

Adult Friend Finder Hack Is Nightmare Phishing Problem

May 23, 2015 10:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Guys, we have a real phishing problem with this Adult Friend Finder (AFF) hack. This particular adult site is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites in the U.S. and has 40 million ...

Researchers Observe SVG Files Being Used To Distribute Ransomware

May 23, 2015 8:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers with AppRiver have observed attackers sending out phishing emails with SVG files attached – these files, when downloaded and executed, open up websites that download what ...

Phishing in the C-Suite: 96% of Executives Vulnerable to Attacks

May 11, 2015 9:50:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a recent survey, 96% of executives failed to tell the difference between a real email and a phishing email 100% of the time.

How Phishing Malware Rombertik Kills Your Hard Drives

May 9, 2015 1:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

InfoSec researchers at Cisco's TALOS group discovered a strain of malware that spreads through phishing. Attackers use social engineering tactics to entice users to download, unzip, and ...

What our customers are saying about our security awareness training

May 7, 2015 10:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One of our customers sent us this today: "I wanted to give you an update on our security awareness training. When we did the baseline phishing campaign for 85 employees and we had a click ...

Your Antivirus Enduser Is Exposed To Phishing Attacks For 17.5 Hours

May 2, 2015 1:04:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 2015 Websense threat report is abundantly clear about it. "Websense detected 28 percent of malicious email messages before an antivirus signature became available, presenting AV users ...

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