The Latest Anti-Phishing Working Group Report

Apr 26, 2012 3:46:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, the new APWG Global Phishing Report is being today at the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting in Prague. This report is published every six months, detailing how phishers are ...

Bogus Olympics 2012 Email Warning Blindside Users With Malware

Apr 23, 2012 4:26:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The upcoming London Olympics is undoubtedly one of the most highly-anticipated sports event of the year. It is also a favorite social engineering ploy among cybercriminals. Just recently, ...

Scam Of The Week: 'The Evil Unsub'

Apr 20, 2012 3:56:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An ordinary piece of spam slips through the filters, and you see a gorgeous sandy beach with palm trees. It's an enticing ad for a vacation to a tropical island, basically a big picture ...

Six Steps To Successful Security Awareness Training

Apr 19, 2012 3:48:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Video: How a crimepack works

Apr 12, 2012 5:37:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals are as organized and industrious as any legitimate business. Case in point: exploit kits, also known as crimepacks, which bad guys can purchase and which make infecting ...

SMS-controlled Malware Hijacks Android Phones

Apr 11, 2012 4:25:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered new Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things ...

Finally Defined: 'Advanced Persistent Threat'

Apr 2, 2012 4:30:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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Malicious Office documents target Mac OS X

Mar 29, 2012 3:32:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trendmicro reported: "We have recently analyzed a series of emails sent to specific users that leverage a certain prominent socio-political issue. One of these messages is about the ...

Shield your business from cybercrooks

Mar 23, 2012 4:00:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Anne Fisher, Editor of New York's Executive Inbox wrote: "Can you recognize a potentially disastrous breach of your computer systems security when you see it? Lets find out with two ...

Look Ma, malware without files!

Mar 21, 2012 4:38:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wow, instead of an exploit dropping a file onto the file system and running it... a DLL is injected straight into memory from the exploit, leaving nothing to scan on the harddrive. Writen ...

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations.

Mar 20, 2012 9:10:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations. Take care with those invites! GFI Labs recently discovered a LinkedIn email phishing scam that installs a banking trojan. It ...

Its Tax Scam Season

Mar 16, 2012 4:44:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Warn everyone that 'Tax Scam Season' is upon us, and that no one should respond to anything tax-related via email. The IRS does not use email or social media, don't fall for refund offers ...

The Top 5 Executive Spear-phishing Scams

Mar 13, 2012 6:30:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We recommend you copy and paste this section, and send it to your executive team, with a warning that they might be targeted with spear-phishing attacks. They need to 'Stop, Look, Think' ...

Internet Security is Becoming a Priority Business Issue

Sep 30, 2011 5:27:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing, the New Sport for Teenage Cybercriminals

Sep 28, 2011 8:32:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrime: Getting Robbed Is Not What It Used To Be

Sep 26, 2011 9:04:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1378" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Old Fashioned Robber"][/caption] Way back in your grand-pappys day (before cybercrime), a bank-robber or garden ...

Two Hackers Give Up The Cybercrime Life

Sep 23, 2011 2:40:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1372" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Chinese Hackers"][/caption] A pair of notorious Chinese hackers who left the dark side are now urging other hackers in ...

Beware the Spy-Eye Cybercrime Wave

Sep 21, 2011 7:50:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="170" caption="cybercrime"][/caption] Cybercrime is a lucrative business which offers criminals very high returns in exchange for ...

White House Takes On the New Cybercrime Mob

Sep 19, 2011 1:27:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1362" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="White House - Cybercrime"][/caption] The White House has decided that it's time to take hacking seriously, asking for ...

Cybercrime Theft Topples $388 Billion Annually

Sep 16, 2011 1:16:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1357" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cybercrime Losses"][/caption] U.S. government agencies are getting better at sharing information about cybercrime with ...

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