Smishing and Deepfakes Top the List of Cyber Attack Methods Expected in 2020

You want to know what to expect from data breaches, phishing attacks, and other calculated methods in 2020? There’s no better source than Experian’s seventh-annual Data Breach Industry ...

January 7, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Business Email Compromise Attack Uses a “Man-in-the-Middle” Email Attack to Steal $1M

Dubbed the “ultimate” Man-in-the-Middle attack by security researchers at Checkpoint, this CEO fraud attack shows how brazen cybercriminals can be – and how organizations need to be ...

January 7, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware Attacks Step Up their Game and Now Look for NAS Devices

It used to be that ransomware just looked for office files. Then backups became a secondary victim. New data from Kaspersky shows NAS devices are being added as targets.

January 7, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

New TrickBot Malware Attack Leverages Google Drive to Deliver Its Payload and Ensure Infection

New details from Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 research team show TrickBot rearing its ugly head once again, using legitimate cloud services – and employee greed – as its path to success. ...

January 7, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Penn State Warns of Spear Phishing Attacks

Penn State is warning its community about a recent spike in phishing attacks targeting the university’s employees. Attackers are sending emails posing as real Penn State employees and ...

January 6, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Security Generation Gaps

People from different generations tend to approach cybersecurity differently. Organizations should tailor their security programs and phishing tests with this in mind. According to Azeem ...

January 6, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Announcing A New 8-Minute Training Module - Social Media: Staying Secure in a Connected World

As you probably know, social media is the number one place that attackers can get intel about your organization to make their "hacking of your humans" more effective. We have been hearing ...

January 3, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

U.S. Government Issues Warning About Possible Iranian Cyberattacks

Christopher C. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning about a potential new wave of Iranian cyber-attacks targeting U.S. assets after Maj. ...

January 3, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Seven Kinds of Malware, and all Arrive by Social Engineering

Naked Security outlines seven different categories of malware and describes how each of them through social engineering techniques can affect your organization. Some or all of these ...

January 3, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Global Climate Change Phishbait

A number of phishing campaigns have been using Christmas-themed emails encouraging recipients to support climate activist Greta Thunberg, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. ...

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Smishing and Deepfakes Top the List of Cyber Attack Methods Expected in 2020

Business Email Compromise Attack Uses a “Man-in-the-Middle” Email Attack to Steal $1M

Ransomware Attacks Step Up their Game and Now Look for NAS Devices

New TrickBot Malware Attack Leverages Google Drive to Deliver Its Payload and Ensure Infection

Penn State Warns of Spear Phishing Attacks

Security Generation Gaps

Announcing A New 8-Minute Training Module - Social Media: Staying Secure in a Connected World

U.S. Government Issues Warning About Possible Iranian Cyberattacks

Seven Kinds of Malware, and all Arrive by Social Engineering

Global Climate Change Phishbait

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