35 percent of Kansas City Employees Turn Out Phish-prone

Mar 28, 2015 1:16:45 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

From the Kansas City Star: Would-be hackers duped 35% of Kansas City employees into opening the door to municipal computer systems sometime in the last six months, a city audit report ...

How to get your Phish-prone percentage up. Up? Yes, Up.

Mar 23, 2015 11:14:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Something surprising happened last week. A few of our customers reported that their phish-prone percentage was going up. Up? Yes, up. Not something you normally would expect or ...

China Finally Admits It Has A Hacker Army

Mar 20, 2015 2:45:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

China finally admits it has special cyber warfare units — and a lot of them. This is the "advanced persistent threat" cyber security experts have been pointing to.

Banking Regulator Issues New Phishing Alert

Mar 19, 2015 5:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The National Credit Union Administration, (NCUA) warns netizens about phishing emails containing links to a fraudulent website that resembles the NCUA are being pushed to consumers.

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #11 Ransomware: Pay Up Or Fight. What Would You Do?

Mar 17, 2015 9:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware: Pay Up Or Fight. What Would You Do? Ask security experts what to do when hit with ransomware -- the sophisticated malware that infects a device or network, uses military-grade ...

Spear Phishing Attack Nearly Costs FL City $500K

Mar 12, 2015 2:12:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A spear-phishing last month at Orange Park City Hall almost got away with $500,000 from the city's bank account. Fortunately it was caught in time so that a wire transfer that already had ...

Scam Of The Week: Phishing For Apple Watch

Mar 11, 2015 10:15:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, Apple had their big Apple Watch release event, and the press is full of news about the models and pricing. Pundits are sprinkling their predictions about features and future ...

New CryptoWall Attack Uses Malicious Help File Attachments

Mar 6, 2015 2:42:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new CryptoWall attack wave has hit end-users with phishing emails containing malicious .chm attachments that infect networks with the latest and most sophisticated file-encrypting ...

Hospital Sues Bank of America Over Million-Dollar Cyberheist

Mar 3, 2015 10:40:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #9 Mar 3, 2015 How To Get The OK To Phish Your Own Employees

Mar 3, 2015 9:44:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #9 Mar 3, 2015 How To Get The OK To Phish Your Own Employees IT people responsible for network security talk to us all the time. Almost all of them agree that ...

How To Get The OK To Phish Your Own Employees

Feb 28, 2015 2:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

IT people responsible for network security talk to us all the time. Almost all of them agree that end-users are their number one headache and managing that problem continues to be a big ...

Scam Of The Week: Death In The Family

Feb 21, 2015 10:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrime is innovating on a known and disgusting scam; preying on people that have recently suffered a loss. Used to be that old time scam artists read the obituary notices in the ...

More Phishing Attacks Going After Financial Data

Feb 17, 2015 11:27:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. The results show how cybercrime has shifted its focus to payment ...

New KnowBe4 Console V4.0 Released

Feb 13, 2015 3:57:44 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are excited to announce Version 4.0 of the KnowBe4 console with some exciting new phishing features! Here are the two main highlights and the rest of the list is below. - Random ...

Anthem Hack Caused By A Phished System Admin?

Feb 13, 2015 10:40:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The foreign hackers who stole up to 80 million records from Anthem social engineered their way into the company's network by obtaining the credentials of five tech workers. Thomas Miller, ...

Antivirus Products Are Slow at Making Malware Signatures

Feb 12, 2015 4:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The traditional malicious software detection approach is far from being sufficient, especially in corporate environments. More and more it's found that antivirus products can take months ...

Anthem Breach Began with Phishing of Employees

Feb 11, 2015 2:23:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last updated 2/12/2015 - The foreign hackers who stole up to 80 million records from Anthem social engineered their way into the company's network by obtaining the credentials of five ...

Hacked Lawyers Office Sends Phishing Attack To Customers

Feb 10, 2015 4:47:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

An interesting new wrinkle in phishing attacks is in the wild as we speak. A system administrator reported the following on the spiceworks forum:

Malware Hijacks Microsoft Outlook And Spreads Banking Trojan

Feb 10, 2015 10:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I mentioned a few months ago that I expected something like this, but it has materialized faster than I expected. Trend Micro researchers discovered a new version of the Dyre banking ...

Brand new ransomware strain encrypts files from memory

Feb 6, 2015 2:37:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security researchers at venture-backed Fairfax, Virginia-based Invincea have discovered a new Russian ransomware strain they called "Fessleak" which delivers its malicious code straight ...

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