Ottawa City Treasurer sends $128,000 to fraudsters in email phishing scam

Apr 10, 2019 7:05:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The treasurer of the city of Ottawa, Marian Simulik, fell for a business email compromise (BEC) scam and sent $100,000 to a scammer, the city’s auditor general revealed this week. Simulik ...

[Heads-up] Survey Finds 82% Of You Are Impacted By Payment Fraud

Apr 10, 2019 6:53:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Payment fraud continues to soar, as a record 82 percent of organizations reported incidents in 2018, according to the 2019 AFP Payments Fraud & Control Survey, underwritten by J.P. ...

Organizations Face a 63% Likelihood of Being the Victim of Successful Cyberattack in Next 12 Months

Apr 10, 2019 6:27:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from 1,200 IT organizations shows organizations seeing attacks as inevitable and, for some industries, successful compromise as even more a given.

The Latest in Phishing Tackle

Apr 8, 2019 10:27:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing kits are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection and make their scams more convincing, according to Prakhar Shrotriya at Zscaler.

New Phishing Attacks Make 2FA Useless

Apr 8, 2019 7:10:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

These latest attacks are designed to proxy login requests that incorporate SMS-based authentication as a way to seamlessly bypass 2FA protection without being noticed.

90 Percent Of Critical Infrastructure Hit By Cyberattacks

Apr 6, 2019 10:23:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new survey of professionals in industries using industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) finds 90 percent of respondents say their environment has been damaged ...

Scam of The Week: Realistic Phishing Attacks Take Advantage of U.S. Tax Season

Apr 6, 2019 9:53:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With Tax Day only a few days away, cybercriminals are trying to take advantage of tax season through widespread phishing campaigns that aim to trick people into providing sensitive ...

NCAA-themed Scams During Basketball Playoffs

Apr 4, 2019 7:05:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers are capitalizing on the hype for March Madness with a bevy of malicious streaming sites and phishing scams, according to Lindsey O’Donnell at Threatpost. Researchers at Zscaler ...

Game of Thrones as Phishbait, with Hook

Apr 4, 2019 7:00:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Game of Thrones is the top TV show used to deliver malware-infected pirated content, researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found. Threatpost says the researchers saw nearly 21,000 users ...

Scaring People with GDPR

Apr 2, 2019 10:56:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Criminals are taking advantage of misunderstandings surrounding the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to exploit gullible employees and organizations, according ...

Free Tool: Phishing Reply Test Identifies Users Likely to Fall Victim to Fraudsters

Apr 2, 2019 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Highly targeted phishing attacks, known as Business Email Compromise or CEO fraud scams have exceeded $12.5 billion in total known losses worldwide (according to the FBI). These social ...

The Famous Fall Victim To Phishing, Too

Apr 1, 2019 2:00:47 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A Georgia resident has taken a guilty plea to charges of hacking numerous Apple accounts belonging to high-profile athletes and musicians and stealing their credit card information, ...

ISACA Recommends Phishing Simulations and Measurement as Appropriate Defense to Reduce Risk of Successful Phishing Attacks

Apr 1, 2019 6:08:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations are working to limit the effectiveness of phishing attacks using both internal and external collateral and programs. According to ISACA, the important thing is to have ...

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Ottawa City Treasurer sends $128,000 to fraudsters in email phishing scam

[Heads-up] Survey Finds 82% Of You Are Impacted By Payment Fraud

Organizations Face a 63% Likelihood of Being the Victim of Successful Cyberattack in Next 12 Months

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90 Percent Of Critical Infrastructure Hit By Cyberattacks

Scam of The Week: Realistic Phishing Attacks Take Advantage of U.S. Tax Season

NCAA-themed Scams During Basketball Playoffs

Game of Thrones as Phishbait, with Hook

Scaring People with GDPR

Free Tool: Phishing Reply Test Identifies Users Likely to Fall Victim to Fraudsters

The Famous Fall Victim To Phishing, Too

ISACA Recommends Phishing Simulations and Measurement as Appropriate Defense to Reduce Risk of Successful Phishing Attacks

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