Nearly 1.5 Million New Phishing Sites Created Each Month

Sep 22, 2017 7:27:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The September 2017 Webroot Quarterly Threat Trends Report showed that 1.385 million new, unique phishing sites are created each month, with a high of 2.3 million sites created in May. The ...

Barracuda Advanced Technology Group Tracks 20 Million Ransomware Phishing Attack

Sep 20, 2017 7:21:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Barracuda Advanced Technology Group says it’s tracking a ransomware threat that has so far spawned about 20 million phishing emails sent to unsuspecting users around the world in the last ...

Aaaaand... You're fired (thanks to phishing)

Sep 20, 2017 7:07:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The BBC has a cautionary tale for pretty much everyone who uses email. It’s the story of a finance director who was sacked after falling for a phishing scam disguised as a message from ...

Phishing attacks use undocumented MS Office feature to leak system profile data

Sep 19, 2017 6:44:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An undocumented Microsoft Office feature allows attackers to gather sensitive configuration details on targeted systems simply by sending a phishing email and social engineering victims ...

VEVO Data Breach Caused By LinkedIn Phishing Attack

Sep 15, 2017 10:35:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A Vevo spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company “can confirm that Vevo experienced a data breach as a result of a phishing scam via Linkedin. We have addressed the issue and are ...

Scam Of The Week: Equifax Phishing Attacks

Sep 9, 2017 8:06:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You already know that a 143 million Equifax records were compromised. The difference with this one is that a big-three credit bureau like Equifax tracks so much personal and sometimes ...

Phishing Attack With PowerPoint Attachment Bypasses User Access Control

Sep 4, 2017 7:55:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fortinet researchers discovered a malicious PowerPoint file which currently is used to attack diplomats, United Nations- and government organizations worldwide. This will soon filter down ...

These 4 Maps Will Make You Understand Russia's Aggressive Cyber Attacks

Sep 3, 2017 1:23:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There are many kinds of maps, they can show roads or general geography, but sometimes they shed light on other dimensions like economic, political and/or military perspectives. First of ...

A Phishing Attack in the Clouds May Rain On Your Parade

Sep 1, 2017 5:02:27 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to MeriTalk, an editorial and events organization that focuses on Federal IT and government computing technologies, governments are moving some, or all of their IT to the Cloud, ...

[ALERT] The IRS Issued An Urgent Warning Against An IRS / FBI-Themed Ransomware Phishing Attack

Aug 29, 2017 7:01:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2017 — The Internal Revenue Service warned people to avoid a new phishing scheme that impersonates the IRS and the FBI as part of a ransomware scam to take computer ...

Health Care Systems Remain Targets of Ransomware And Phishing Attacks in 2017

Aug 25, 2017 4:41:25 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Health care networks and providers are squarely in the cross hairs of ransomware cyber criminals and if the current rate of attacks continue it will likely exceed last years' events ...

[On-Demand Webinar] How To Phish Like the Bad Guys

Aug 21, 2017 2:35:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Despite all the spectacular news stories about advanced persistent threats and targeted hacks from nation-states, the most common security challenge facing enterprises today continues to ...

SyncCrypt Uses Graphic File to Cloak Ransomware in ZIP Phishing Payload

Aug 21, 2017 1:22:54 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Emisoft Security researcher xXToffeeXx discovered another new phishing threat adept at bypassing Antivirus using a variation of the game played by PowerPoint PPSX attachment phishing ...

New Study: Phishing Is Still The Top Threat Faced By Organizations

Aug 20, 2017 10:05:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The new 2017 SANS Threat Landscape survey from the well-known research and education specialist finds that security professionals rate phishing at 72 percent, spyware at 50 percent, ...

Cyber-Attacks Soar by a Quarter as Phishing Dominates

Aug 12, 2017 10:24:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber-attacks were up by a quarter in Q2 2017, with a surprising twist: global manufacturing is now the top target. The report from NTT Security also shows that phishing is the most ...

We Love The PhishMe Free Idea!

Aug 11, 2017 7:40:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yesterday, PhishMe's CEO Rohyt Belani came out with a great new initiative. They have created a "lite" version of their platform — they call it simplified — and they are giving it away ...

How Modern Email Phishing Attacks Have Organizations On The Hook

Aug 6, 2017 1:11:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Israeli anti-phishing vendor IronScales came out with an interesting new report about phishing trends. They looked at more than 8,500 attacks that bypassed spam filters, from more than a ...

How Not To Fall For Phishing As An IT Pro

Aug 5, 2017 12:36:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, here is a new spear phishing scheme that attacks your development team. Cyber criminals with IPs resolving to Russia hijacked an extension for Google Chrome and abused their illegal ...

Hackers are targeting hotel Wi-Fi with particularly evil malware and spear phishing

Jul 25, 2017 10:13:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The veteran DarkHotel hacking group is back with a few new tricks up their sleeve. These sophisticated hackers first began targeting high level executives in 2011 with a signature brand ...

New Phishing Templates: OJ Simpson Parole and Chester Bennington Suicide Note

Jul 21, 2017 8:45:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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