ALERT - CryptoLocker Has A Competitor That Is Worse: CryptoDefense

Apr 1, 2014 6:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we said before, there is furious competition between cybergangs. Late February 2014 a copycat ransomware competitor to Cryptolocker was released which outdoes CryptoLocker. The malware ...

Attacks Give Lift to Cyber Insurance

Mar 27, 2014 2:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today in the Wall Street Journal, reporter Leslie Scism quoted Bloomberg News that "Target's data breach 'was the equivalent of 10 free Super Bowl ads."

Hackers hit Monster Jobs users with Gameover Zeus malware

Mar 27, 2014 7:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Companies that are recruiting new employees are being targeted through Monster Jobs. The bad guys are using malware called Gameover Zeus, security firm F-secure reported in a blog post ...

Florida Blue takes security awareness training personally

Mar 24, 2014 3:55:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Great post about security awareness by Douglas B. Robison, Florida Blue, a 2014 CSO40 award recipient. Here is an excerpt:

Scam Of The Week: You Owe Taxes, Pay Now Or Else

Mar 21, 2014 5:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This scam uses a combination of phishing emails and spoofed Caller ID scam calls. The scammers intimidate the victim, threaten with arrest, deportation or loss of a business or driver’s ...

Target Breach: Where The Weak Points Were

Mar 18, 2014 4:47:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dave Kearns posted March 18 that he's been fascinated by the information that keeps coming out of the Taget Stores data breach. He's got a great analysis, and he ends off with words that ...

Phishing FaceBook: Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted

Mar 15, 2014 11:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers jump on every opportunity they can to trick people. This time they hijacked to story about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

Scam Of The Week: "You may have cancer" phishing email

Mar 13, 2014 7:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amy Stevens of the PR group Davies Murphy became part of the story when Eduard Kovacs at SoftPedia picked up on her tweet about a phishing email she just received. If you recently had a ...

When A Stranger Calls

Mar 10, 2014 10:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dr. Neal Krawetz posted something very useful over at the hackerfactor. Apart from that it's also very entertaining. He is legally recording various cold-calls he gets. Some of them are ...

Sophisticated Scam Of The Week: Cell Phone Voucher

Mar 9, 2014 8:37:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There's a fresh, well thought-out social engineering scam sticking up its ugly head right now. The bad guys are promising cell phone users amounts of up to $100 in vouchers using a ...

Inevitable: Phishing That Pretends To Be Salesforce.com

Mar 6, 2014 8:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Just a heads-up, screen shot above. The lifehacker site in Australia warned about a phishing scam using a "salesforce" email as bait. The bad guys will use anything to get you to click, ...

How to Test the Phishing Savvy of Your Staff

Mar 5, 2014 1:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Average Enterprise Is Hit by a Cyber Attack Every 1.5 Seconds

Mar 1, 2014 3:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

FireEye released its yearly Advanced Threat Report, and they did some interesting math. Enterprises are hit by cyber attacks on average once every 1.5 seconds, which is double from the ...

41 Percent Of Infected Pay The Cryptolocker Ransom

Mar 1, 2014 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have warned about the Cryptolocker ransomware before, but now we have some hard numbers about the percentage of people that are forced to pay up when a workstation or server has been ...

Kiss Your Old Security Awareness Training Program Goodbye!

Feb 18, 2014 11:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Not Working? Are Users Still Clicking Phishing Links And Opening Infected Attachments?

This Week Top 10 Phishing Scams

Feb 17, 2014 4:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's my job to keep an eye out for the most recent phishing scams and let everyone know. One of the newsletters I get as a source for this is called "hoaxslayer". They just reported some ...

Fake LinkedIn Phishing Profiles Going Pro

Feb 10, 2014 11:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why Cybercrime Pays Off

Feb 5, 2014 11:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ransomware phishing warning issued by European Cybercrime Centre

Feb 5, 2014 8:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

Feb 4, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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ALERT - CryptoLocker Has A Competitor That Is Worse: CryptoDefense

Attacks Give Lift to Cyber Insurance

Hackers hit Monster Jobs users with Gameover Zeus malware

Florida Blue takes security awareness training personally

Scam Of The Week: You Owe Taxes, Pay Now Or Else

Target Breach: Where The Weak Points Were

Phishing FaceBook: Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted

Scam Of The Week: "You may have cancer" phishing email

When A Stranger Calls

Sophisticated Scam Of The Week: Cell Phone Voucher

Inevitable: Phishing That Pretends To Be Salesforce.com

How to Test the Phishing Savvy of Your Staff

Average Enterprise Is Hit by a Cyber Attack Every 1.5 Seconds

41 Percent Of Infected Pay The Cryptolocker Ransom

Kiss Your Old Security Awareness Training Program Goodbye!

This Week Top 10 Phishing Scams

Fake LinkedIn Phishing Profiles Going Pro

Why Cybercrime Pays Off

ransomware phishing warning issued by European Cybercrime Centre

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