How a Coca-Cola Exec Fell for a Hacker's E-mail Trick

Nov 7, 2012 9:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the annals of what-was-I-thinking moments in computer security, this has to be one of the most gobsmacking. According to a Bloomberg News investigation of a series of undisclosed ...

Cyberheists A Helluva Wake-up Call to Small Biz

Nov 6, 2012 1:49:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs has an excellent example of a recent cyberheist. Read it and weep! The $180,000 robbery took the building security and maintenance system installer Primary Systems Inc. by ...

Top 5 Spear-Phishing Attacks Targeting Executives

Nov 2, 2012 8:15:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Twice a year, KnowBe4 publishes the Top 5 spear-phishing attacks that are used to lure executives into clicking on links or open infected attachments. We recommend sending this list to ...

What Is The Top Phishing Day Of The Week? And Why?

Oct 17, 2012 10:05:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280" caption="Top Phishing Day"][/caption] Websense reported on October 8, 2012 about their July-August 2012 research. They said: "A disturbing new ...

Black Hole Malware Dominates Web So Train Your Employees

Oct 16, 2012 10:13:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 13"][/caption] Microsoft released their Security Intelligence Report (SIR) last week, ...

Article: Is Your Credit Card Stolen? Check for free!

Oct 16, 2012 4:50:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Is Your Credit Card Stolen? Check for free! (This is a great PSA) http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/

Defending Against Phishing Attacks

Oct 3, 2012 8:11:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By now, we all know that the bad guys are using phishing and spear-phishing to go after your users and penetrate your networks. This type of social engineering attack is getting used more ...

Scam Of The Week You Have Been Targeted For Assasination

Sep 24, 2012 4:10:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The last few weeks, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported they received complaints about the latest version of 'Hit Man scam' which now tells people via e-mail they have been ...

Beware Of iPhone Delivery Phishes

Sep 19, 2012 9:59:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers have a great new reason to send you a UPS notification regarding your new iPhone 5 shipment. In times like this when people are eagerly waiting for an email of this type the ...

Fake AmEx "Security Verification"

Sep 4, 2012 3:13:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

* Scam Of The Week: Fake AmEx "Security Verification" Phishing attacks come in waves. Old ones get "refurbished" and sent out again after several months. Shiny new ones are cooked up all ...

Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures

Aug 24, 2012 4:49:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures"][/caption] Wath out for the latest Internet craze. The bad guys are having a field day with ...

Special Scam Of The Week: Big Brand Hijacking

Aug 17, 2012 10:16:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An existing KnowBe4 customer tweeted about a fresh scam with the hashtag #RedFlag, and sure enough it had quite a few Red Flags. The bad guys are getting quite inventive, this time ...

More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

Aug 3, 2012 9:00:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...

Espionage Botnets

Jul 30, 2012 8:36:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Espionage Botnets"][/caption] Brian Krebs just blogged about something very interesting. "A security researcher whos spent 18 months ...

Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud

Jul 12, 2012 6:17:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Bank Sues Customer"][/caption] Tracy Kitten at BankInfo Security reported on this: "In another legal wrangling over liability linked ...

Scam Of The Week Payroll Phish

Jul 1, 2012 3:52:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The nakedsecurity blog over at Sophos highlighted a new phishing scam that would be good to alert your employees about. The bad guys are pretending to be payroll processing company ADP. ...

Malware Metastasizes

Jul 1, 2012 3:13:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A few days ago I wrote about a 60 million Euro cyberheist. I have been digging into this a bit more, as it's the most advanced attack yet. Cybercrime is not revolutionary, it clearly ...

Why pill pushing spam pays off

Jun 22, 2012 3:15:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs is on a roll. Here is why pill pushing spam pays off. "Consumer demand for cheap prescription drugs sold through spam-advertised Web sites shows no sign of abating, according ...

OMG - I did not know it was THIS horrible.

Jun 21, 2012 10:46:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More from Brian Krebs's astounding blog post today. "As the chart I compiled above indicates, attackers are switching the lure or spoofed brand quite often, but popular choices include ...

A Closer Look: Email-Based Ransomware Attacks

Jun 21, 2012 9:31:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the increase of email phishing attacks being the primary attack vector, ransomware payments have risen to 60%, it's important to take a closer look at email-based ransomware attacks.

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