Fake Social Media Verification Scams Are the Gateway to Something Much More Sinister

Oct 14, 2020 3:27:01 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Using copyright violation threats or the lure of obtaining a blue checkmark to verify your account, the latest scams easily trick victims out of their social media credentials.

FINRA Yet Again Becomes the Impersonated Brand at the Center of Phishing Attacks on Brokerage Firms

Oct 14, 2020 3:24:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A mix of domain, phishing emails, a dash of social engineering, and a survey are the recipe for a simple and yet effective campaign targeting the financial sector.

Trends in Malicious Attachments Used in Phishing Emails

Oct 14, 2020 8:26:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

People need to be familiar with the types of malicious attachments used in phishing emails, according to Lawrence Abrams at BleepingComputer. One of the most common methods of installing ...

[eSummit] Your Cybersecurity Awareness Month Action Plan

Oct 13, 2020 10:23:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber threat actors are getting more creative and more skilled at hacking the human. That's why we've created this cybersecurity eSummit to look at evolving attack techniques your end ...

Sophisticated Mercenary Group Excels at Social Engineering

Oct 13, 2020 8:23:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An extremely skilled group of hackers-for-hire dubbed “Bahamut” is using sophisticated social engineering tactics against a range of targets around the world, researchers at BlackBerry ...

The Market for Phishing Kits

Oct 12, 2020 8:28:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Inexperienced cybercriminals can easily find places to buy phishing kits in the open, on the “surface web” (as opposed to the deep or dark web), according to Jan Kopriva at the SANS ...

Scam Of The Week: Bad Guys Prep For Prime Day Phishing Attacks

Oct 10, 2020 10:37:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, hosts a massive sales event once a year called Prime Day. Usually set in July, the highly awaited two-day event was postponed until October ...

[HEADS UP] Local Boston Town Falls Victim to a Phishing Attack

Oct 9, 2020 2:03:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a local news source from Boston, the Town of Franklin recently became the next victim to a phishing attack, costing over $500K.

61% of Successful Phishing Attacks Against Government Organizations Result in Full Compromise of Credentials

Oct 9, 2020 7:44:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing remains the top primary attack vector that keeps on giving to cybercriminals, as new data highlights the victories cybercriminals are enjoying at your organization’s expense.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Weekly Tip: Current Phishing Threats

Oct 9, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Each week during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re going to be sharing in-depth weekly cybersecurity tips from our evangelists to help your users make smarter security decisions and ...

New Office 365 Phishing Attack Checks Your Stolen Credentials in Real-Time

Oct 7, 2020 10:06:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Nothing says the bad guys are intent on stealing credentials like testing them while you participate in their phishing attack so they can verify the validity before letting you off the ...

USPS and FedEx Phishing Attack Texts Flood Mobile Phones

Oct 7, 2020 10:00:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Taking a page from traditional phishing scams that seek to use broadly-accepted messages and send them to everyone, last month officially brought SMiShing to the cybersecurity forefront.

Gartner Recognizes KnowBe4 as a Representative Vendor for Security Awareness Training Program Platforms

Oct 7, 2020 8:31:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We believe, as the world's largest security awareness training platform, this recognition validates the success of our ability to carry out our mission. We enable organizations and their ...

[HEADS UP] Cybercriminals Launch Phishing Campaign to Capitalize on President's Health

Oct 7, 2020 8:29:51 AM By Eric Howes

As we predicted just a few days ago, malicious actors are now exploiting the media firestorm surrounding President Donald Trump's diagnosis late last week with COVID-19.

Scammers are using Black Lives Matter as Phishbait

Oct 6, 2020 8:25:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A phishing campaign is using Black Lives Matter-themed phishing lures to trick people into installing malware, Yahoo reports. Adam Levin from Cyberscout told Yahoo that the phishing ...

Healthcare Sector Still Sustains Phishing Campaigns

Oct 5, 2020 8:29:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

No one should take too seriously the high-minded things criminals sometimes say about how they’re restraining themselves during the pandemic, and that they’re going to avoid hitting ...

Malicious Actors Crash U.S. Election: Spoofed Emails Attempt to Gather U.S. Voter Registration Data

Oct 2, 2020 11:48:56 AM By Eric Howes

Unless you recently beamed down from Mars, you are undoubtedly aware that election season is upon us in the United States. Indeed, the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is currently ...

Newly Relaunched ProLock Ransomware Seeks Ransoms as High as $3 Million

Oct 2, 2020 8:33:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Seeing successful attacks as frequently as one per day, the creators of ProLock seek out larger organizations using the QBot trojan to infiltrate, spread throughout, and infect a network.

Two Men Charged in a Case of Phishing NFL and NBA Players

Oct 2, 2020 8:25:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...

Don't Just Catch a Phish, Captcha One

Oct 1, 2020 11:03:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Menlo Security have identified a phishing site that uses three layers of visual captchas to evade detection by automated security crawlers. Captchas are brief tests on ...

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