Another SMS Scam

Feb 7, 2020 8:19:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new PayPal SMS phishing campaign is making the rounds, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. The text messages in this campaign purport to come from PayPal and inform recipients ...

Email Test Finds More Than 50% of Kingston School District Employees Vulnerable to Phishing

Feb 6, 2020 6:49:03 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than half of the people who have Kingston school district email accounts opened a potentially damaging phishing email sent to them by a firm that's helping the district gauge ...

January Content Update: Including the new 2020 KnowBe4 Social Engineering Red Flags Training Module

Feb 6, 2020 5:14:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here are a few important updates to share with you from the month of January.

Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam

Feb 6, 2020 3:34:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There was an unsuccessful phishing attempt that security professional Jeffrey Ladish almost fell for. Jeffrey was house searching and was looking on Craigslist and Zillow for rental ...

[On-Demand] Learn How to Forensically Examine Phishing Emails to Better Protect Your Organization

Feb 5, 2020 8:43:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber crime has become an arms race where the bad guys constantly evolve their attacks while you, the vigilant defender, must diligently expand your know how to prevent intrusions into ...

Unusual New Botnet-driven Phishing Attack With Tricky Downloaders

Feb 4, 2020 5:38:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A large phishing campaign is distributing malicious Excel documents and utilizing irritating pop-ups to trick users into enabling macros, researchers at Lastline have found. The campaign ...

Ashley Madison Data Breach Comes Back to Haunt Customers with New Sextortion Scam

Feb 3, 2020 9:47:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Just when you thought everyone forgot about participation on the ill-famed cheaters website, a new phishing scam looks to use the breached data as the basis for extorting the site’s users.

Intelligence Services Get Phishing Licenses

Feb 3, 2020 8:23:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was targeted by a spear phishing attack designed to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have ...

[Heads-up] We Give Notice About The New Criminal Age 'Ransomware 2.0': Extremely Damaging, Dangerous And Plain Evil

Feb 2, 2020 1:38:44 PM By Roger Grimes

Take a look at that screen. Let it sink in a moment. Imagine if it were your company.

Iranian Hacker Group APT34 Apparently at It Again Targeting U.S. Research Organizations

Jan 31, 2020 4:22:55 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] Scam Of The Week: Coronavirus Phishing Attacks In The Wild

Jan 31, 2020 1:28:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yup, you can count on it, when there is a worldwide health scare, the bad guys are on it like flies on $#!+. We are seeing a new malicious phishing campaign that is based on the fear of ...

Phishing Attacks Target Telecom Companies and their Tools to Facilitate SIM Swapping Attacks

Jan 30, 2020 8:31:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers are phishing telecom workers and “authorized retailers” to steal credentials and gain access to internal company tools. The end game is to modify SIM settings to help with a ...

Phishing Telcos for SIM-Swapping

Jan 29, 2020 8:26:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Motherboard reports that SIM swappers are launching phishing attacks against employees at Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint in order to hijack customer service tools. Once they have access to ...

A Look Inside the Phishing Tackle Shop

Jan 28, 2020 8:31:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The sophisticated 16Shop phishing kit can now target PayPal and American Express users, according to researchers from ZeroFOX. The researchers came across a new version of 16Shop that ...

Scam Of The Week: "Kobe Bryant Dead, Dies in Helicopter Crash"

Jan 26, 2020 4:29:02 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, news broke that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash. His daughter Gigi was also on board and died in the crash. This is a celebrity death that the bad guys are going to be ...

FDIC Warns U.S. Financial Institutions of Elevated Risk of Cyberattack

Jan 23, 2020 4:05:27 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Citing “increased geopolitical tension”, banks are warned to immediately reevaluate to shore up cybersecurity controls and technology safeguards against ransomware and malware attacks.

New Phishing Attack Emerges Targeting ADP Users Wanting Their W2

Jan 23, 2020 9:33:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

For those looking to get their taxes done early, watch out for emails impersonating ADP offering a link to retrieve your W2 early!

Temporary Social Security Number? No Such Thing

Jan 22, 2020 8:16:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Kaspersky have come across an interesting phishing site that’s posing as a data leak protection service set up by the US government. The site purports to be compensating ...

Emotet Trojan Intelligently Targets Organizations, Impersonates Victims to Improve Attack Success

Jan 21, 2020 1:35:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to new insights from Cisco Talos, this banking malware is getting nastier as it moves into the island hopping space via email attacks using social engineering.

Phishing Attacks Are the Number One Data Breach Attack Vector in the U.K.

Jan 21, 2020 1:29:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest cyber attack trend data in the U.K. shows the majority of data breaches in 2019 began with a phishing attack. Security consulting firm CybSafe analyzed three years of the ...

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