Who Were The Two Big US Tech Companies That Lost $100 Million In CEO Fraud?

Mar 23, 2017 6:51:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

4/28/2017 UPDATE: Facebook and Google confirmed as victims of $100M phishing scam. Story at The Verge. In an update on an earlier post of April 2016, more detail came known about this ...

Scam Of The Week: New FBI and IRS Alerts Against W-2 Phishing

Mar 18, 2017 8:11:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a wave of W-2 phishing attacks going on. We see these coming in through thousands of reported scam attempts via our Phishing Alert Button. The FBI and the IRS have repeatedly ...

SEC Phishing Emails Target Execs For Inside Info

Mar 11, 2017 3:07:06 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A sophisticated phishing attack is trying to get confidential corporate information. Bad guys are sending spoofed emails claiming to be from the Security and Exchange Commission, and ...

Scary new malware hides in memory, uses DNS to communicate, and spreads through phishing

Mar 6, 2017 1:26:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cisco has a separate threat research group called Talos. They just published a report on a scary new form of malware that’s hard to detect. They called it DNSMessenger, and the malicous ...

Verizon: "Most Breaches Trace to Phishing, Social Engineering"

Mar 6, 2017 9:57:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

BankInfoSecurity wrote: "Ninety percent of data breaches seen by Verizon's data breach investigation team have a phishing or social engineering component to them. Not coincidentally, one ...

2016 Exceeds All Records in Numbers of Phishing Attacks

Feb 28, 2017 10:14:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Year over year sustained growth in phishing campaigns produces yet another record number of attacks The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for ...

Which User Will Infect Your Network With Ransomware?

Feb 26, 2017 1:56:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We've got something really cool for you: the new Phishing Security Test v2.0! It's got several great new features, and sending simulated phishing emails to train your employees is a fun ...

Phishing Attack Uses Stuxnet Technology And Makes PCs Into Roombugs

Feb 26, 2017 9:43:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers have uncovered an advanced malware-based operation that siphoned more than 600 gigabytes from about 70 targets in a broad range of industries, including news media, and ...

Survey: Most Hackers Break In Within Six Hours

Feb 25, 2017 10:09:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent survey of 70 professional hackers and penetration testers found that 60% of them take a maximum of just six hours to compromise a target. The research titled The Black Report, ...

Google: "Office Inbox Receives 6.2X More Phishing And 4.3X More Malware Than Your Inbox At Home".

Feb 17, 2017 8:26:44 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Google Research analyzed over a billion emails passing through Gmail, and the results were presented yesterday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Extremely interesting ...

Scam Of The Week: Valentine’s Day Phishing Attacks

Feb 11, 2017 3:11:31 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It is time to remind your users that heartless con artists use social engineering tactics to trick people looking for love. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center warns every year that ...

Careless Licking Gets A Nasty Ransomware Phishing Infection: 1,000+ Machines Down

Feb 4, 2017 9:40:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 1,000 government computer systems shut down. A county in Ohio, US, has had to shut down its entire IT infrastructure due to a ransomware infection. County Auditor Mike Smith ...

300+ New Ways to Stop Your Users from Clicking on Everything!

Jan 10, 2017 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You now really have 300+ new ways to make sure your users Think Before They Click!

Scam Of The Week: Locked PDF Phishing Attack

Jan 6, 2017 8:29:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin ...

Adobe's New VoCo Is PhotoShop For Audio - The Potential For Voice Phishing Is Horrendous

Jan 3, 2017 4:02:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friends at www.Social-Engineer.org sent me some interesting news in their January newsletter: "Adobe recently announced Project VoCo at the November Adobe Max conference.

Russia Hacking America Started With Phishing Attacks

Dec 30, 2016 11:12:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As one of his last actions in office, President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats spies in retaliation for Russia interfering with the U.S. election process, after intelligence agencies ...

Disk-Killer Malware Adds Ransomware Feature And Charges $200,000+

Dec 29, 2016 7:57:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Talk about adding insult to injury with this new KillDisk version. Here is how social engineering can cost you dearly. The Sandworm cybercrime gang has upped its game. They were initially ...

You Need To Know The Top 10 IT Security Trends For 2017

Dec 26, 2016 3:21:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been looking at the coming year and what trends you will probably see actually deployed in your network. These trends are the practical things that will help you to keep your ...

Scam Of The Week: George Michael Dies At 53. Watch out for phishing attacks

Dec 26, 2016 11:16:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, news broke that George Michael was found dead on Sunday at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire, England. He was 53. A police statement said: “Thames Valley Police were called to a ...

L.A. County Phishing Attack: 750,000 record data breach

Dec 18, 2016 11:25:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Confidential health data or personal information of more than 750,000 people may have been accessed in a cyberattack on Los Angeles County employees in May that led to charges this week ...

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