Every week we report on the top scams making headlines in the cybersecurity world. Share with your users so they stay up to date on what to watch out for!
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Child Predator Phishing Scam Preys On Parents Fears Please send a link to this blog post to your friends and family right away?
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This could be a very expensive scam to fall for, so keep on reading.
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, ...
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
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 ...
