Scam Of The Week: 911 Phone Threat

Mar 28, 2015 2:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Residents in Ohio are being "beta tested" by cybercrime for a scam that will inevitably also hit all other states. Here is your Scam Of The Week heads-up. This particular scam will also ...

Scam Of The Week: Phishing For Apple Watch

Mar 11, 2015 10:15:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, Apple had their big Apple Watch release event, and the press is full of news about the models and pricing. Pundits are sprinkling their predictions about features and future ...

Scam Of The Week: Death In The Family

Feb 21, 2015 10:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrime is innovating on a known and disgusting scam; preying on people that have recently suffered a loss. Used to be that old time scam artists read the obituary notices in the ...

Scam Of The Week Child Predator Phishing Scam

Jan 28, 2015 3:07:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Child Predator Phishing Scam Preys On Parents Fears Please send a link to this blog post to your friends and family right away?

Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Support Phishing Emails

Jan 25, 2015 12:15:11 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The scam is at least 15 years old if not more, but unfortunately this type of social engineering still works. Remind your users one more time that emails like this can hit their inbox at ...

Scam Of The Week: ISIS Attack

Jan 19, 2015 5:19:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It is a mystery that bad guys have not jumped on this in higher volume. However, a major malware phishing campaign claiming ISIS attacks is out in the wild at the moment in Australia.

Scam Of The Week: Spike In Hoax News Spreading Malware

Dec 13, 2014 10:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The year 2014 has seen a boom on hoax news stories, as these are particularly successful social engineering tactics used by hackers to get people to click on links, and worse, share the ...

Shipping Problem Phishing Attacks Here Is How They Look

Dec 6, 2014 8:35:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last CyberheistNews issue, we warned that Black Friday and Cyber Monday were behind us, and that criminal hackers have a "scam calendar" which focuses on major shopping events exactly ...

Scam Of The Week: "Shipping Problem"

Nov 29, 2014 10:42:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us. After losing ground to online competitors, brick-and-mortar retailers have struck back with incredible online deals. Wal-Mart said ...

SCAM of the Week: Free Pizza Delivers Malware

Nov 8, 2014 11:08:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a current, active cybercrime campaign going, using the tempting lure of free pizza, researchers at Cloudmark warned. They spotted new spam emails claiming to be a campaign from ...

Scam Of The Week: Ebola Phishing Grows In Volume

Oct 19, 2014 9:52:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been warning here before that Ebola phishing attacks would be more and more prevalent, as a result of the mass-media spending increasing amounts of time covering this threat.

Scam Of The Week: MH17 Airplane Crash

Jul 22, 2014 7:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Almost 300 people get shot out of the air and the only thing cyber-criminals can think of is how to exploit the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting.

Five Travel Scams Of The Week

Jul 14, 2014 12:33:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's summer and a lot of people are on the road, but some of your employees are always traveling for business, and often these are management-level people with access to lots of ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: You Are Summoned To Court

Jun 28, 2014 11:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The AppRiver team dsicovered an increase in phishing scams containing the Zortob Trojan. The new surge uses an existing successful scam, which warns the victim that they've been ordered ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Free World Cup Trip To Brazil

Jun 10, 2014 4:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of ...

Scam Of The Week: Fake Purchase Orders

May 16, 2014 12:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This could be a very expensive scam to fall for, so keep on reading.

Scam Of The Week: Mobile Apps As Phishing Lures

May 9, 2014 11:52:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys use social engineering to make end-users click on links, and their scams rely mostly on exploiting trust. If they can make you believe a message is from a trusted source, ...

Scam Of The Week: Blended XP Phishing Security Threat

Apr 20, 2014 11:22:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

During the first quarter, I have been warning about the coming wave of Windows XP-related scams having to do with the April 8 End Of Life of XP. Here is what you can expect, and many ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 13 It's The XPOCALYPSE!... But Is It?

Apr 1, 2014 8:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 13

Sophisticated Scam Of The Week: Cell Phone Voucher

Mar 9, 2014 8:37:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There's a fresh, well thought-out social engineering scam sticking up its ugly head right now. The bad guys are promising cell phone users amounts of up to $100 in vouchers using a ...

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