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Phishing

Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.

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Defending Against Phishing Attacks

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

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

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"

* 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

[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

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

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

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

Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud

[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

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

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

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.

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

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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F-Secure Cautions about Fresh Olympic-themed Spam

F-Secure the security company based in Finland has recently cautioned that spam mails themed on the Olympics are targeting Internauts while carrying web-links to one malevolent PDF file ...

Fake LinkedIn Emails To Reset Your Password

Since LinkedIn had their IPO, they have been in the news a lot more, even if only to compare them with the recent Facebook IPO Debacle. But the better known you are, the bigger target you ...

Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

TrendLabs discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives attached to email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific ...

Chinese hacker brings grief to Calgary’s Catholic school system

Hackers will find any mail server that is not protected and/or configured correctly and use it to send out as much spam as possible. This gets the unsuspecting organization blacklisted ...


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