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 ...

FBI Warns of Spike in W2 Phishing But Two Central Texas Employers Fall For The Scam

Mar 2, 2018 4:52:10 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI has joined the IRS in warning that W2 tax form phishing is on the rise. The US tax filing deadline is now less than a month-and-a-half away, and tax-themed phishing is trending ...

UK University Students Lose £100,000 to Phishing

Mar 1, 2018 10:19:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing technique aided by social engineering in the form of using social channels to friend victims and create fake events to get creds. UK university students have been conned out of ...

Almost One Quarter Of Canadians Have Clicked On A Phishing Link

Mar 1, 2018 9:54:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TORONTO, March 1, 2018 /CNW/ - Online payment fraud like phishing is a growing trend, and Canadians are worried about it. According to a new survey conducted by Interac Corp., Canadians ...

Financial phishing accounts for over 50% of all phishing attacks for the first time

Feb 28, 2018 2:25:50 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 per cent were attempts to visit a ...

Organizations Are Failing To Learn From Phishing And Ransomware Attacks

Feb 28, 2018 10:33:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Warwick Ashford, security editor at ComputerWeekly had an interesting observation after reading CyberArk's latest cyber threat report: "Organisations are failing to learn from cyber ...

Which phishing messages have a near 100% click rate?

Feb 23, 2018 3:26:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Zeljika at HelpnetSecurity had a great summary of Wombat's latest State of the Phish report: "Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once ...

PHISHING SCHEMES NET HACKERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM FORTUNE 500

Feb 21, 2018 10:39:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

IBM has uncovered sophisticated CEO Fraud campaigns—aka Business Email Compromise—which are successfully targeting Fortune 500 companies. On Wednesday, researchers from IBM's X-Force ...

Cryptojacking Scripts And Phishing Pages Could Soon Invade Your Word Documents

Feb 21, 2018 7:19:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Let's open that doc file and watch the Matrix again. Catalin Cimpanu at Bleepingcomputer had the scoop on this concerning news: "Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code ...

Edward Snowden returns to U.S.! Oops, nope, it's a phishing scam

Feb 15, 2018 2:19:38 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bradley Barth at SCMedia nailed it when he wrote: "No, NSA whistleblower and U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden did not just purchase a 2 terabyte storage plan for iCloud, nor has he moved back ...

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