BEC = “Because it’s Easy Cash” Scammers Trick Employees Into Giving Away Customer Info

Business Email Compromise—also known as CEO Fraud—scammers are now targeting a company's customers using a new indirect attack method designed to collect information on future scam ...

July 25, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

This Year, Phishing Causes Losses of $17,700 per minute And Ransomware Attacks Will Cost $22,184 Per Minute

Global losses to cybercrime total $1.5 trillion per year, which amounts to $2.9 million per minute, a new report by RiskIQ shows. Some of the largest companies are losing $25 each minute ...

July 25, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

A Phishing Campaign Evades Email Gateways via WeTransfer

A phishing campaign is abusing the legitimate file hosting site WeTransfer to get malicious links through email filters, according to Jake Longden at Cofense. The attackers send real ...

July 24, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

HoneyTrap, The Oldest In The World Now As Iranian Catphish on LinkedIn

Iranian state-sponsored hackers are increasing their targeting of civilian targets amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, according to Zak Doffman at Forbes. Doffman cites a ...

July 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Q2 2019 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects from KnowBe4 [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4 reports on the top-clicked phishing emails by subject lines each quarter in three different categories: subjects related to social media, general subjects, and 'In the Wild' - we ...

July 20, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Scam of The Week] New 'US State Police' Phishing Extortion Scam Includes Contact Numbers

Our friend Larry Abrams at Bleeping computer warned: "A new extortion scam is underway that pretends to be from a US State Police detective who is willing to delete child porn evidence if ...

July 19, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

U.S. Coast Guard Warns of Phishing Attacks Designed for Data Theft and Malware Infection

A new Marine Safety Information Bulletin from the U.S. Coast Guard demonstrates that cybercriminals aren’t just after land-based businesses.

July 19, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

U.K. Sees an Increase in Sophisticated Phishing Attacks Targeting Educational Institutions

Using a mix of identity deception, domain spoofing, credential theft, and bank fraud, scammers are taking advantage of soft targets in the U.K.’s education sector.

July 19, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

NSO spyware ‘targets Big Tech cloud services’

The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon ...

July 18, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Lateral Phishing Used To Attack Organizations On Global Scale

Warwick Ashford at ComputerWeekly reported: "Lateral phishing is a growing type of account takeover that has enabled attackers to target more than 100,000 people by hijacking just 154 ...

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BEC = “Because it’s Easy Cash” Scammers Trick Employees Into Giving Away Customer Info

This Year, Phishing Causes Losses of $17,700 per minute And Ransomware Attacks Will Cost $22,184 Per Minute

A Phishing Campaign Evades Email Gateways via WeTransfer

HoneyTrap, The Oldest In The World Now As Iranian Catphish on LinkedIn

Q2 2019 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects from KnowBe4 [INFOGRAPHIC]

[Scam of The Week] New 'US State Police' Phishing Extortion Scam Includes Contact Numbers

U.S. Coast Guard Warns of Phishing Attacks Designed for Data Theft and Malware Infection

U.K. Sees an Increase in Sophisticated Phishing Attacks Targeting Educational Institutions

NSO spyware ‘targets Big Tech cloud services’

Lateral Phishing Used To Attack Organizations On Global Scale

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