As Expected: Robin Williams 'Goodbye Video' Facebook Phishing Message

Aug 15, 2014 3:09:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The scammers are at it, as expected. There is now a Facebook phishing message that invites users to click a link and see an "exclusive" video of Robin Williams saying goodbye through his ...

Tenn. Firm Sues Bank Over $327K Cyberheist

Aug 13, 2014 1:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: See Robin Williams Last Words On Video

Aug 12, 2014 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last night, news broke that Robin Williams was found dead in his home in Marin County, CA. It is suspected that it was either a suicide or an overdose. This is a celebrity death that the ...

Cryptolocker Ransomware Variant Hits Synology Users: Synolocker

Aug 4, 2014 10:02:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

When your products get targeted with custom made ransomware, you know you've got it made. We're talking about NAS (network-attached storage) built by Synology in Taiwan. the malware has ...

Security Awareness Training blocked Ransomware Infection

Aug 1, 2014 11:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ComputerWorld in Australia reported on a very nice success where security awareness training prevented a major ransomware infection. They started out with: "People like to ask the ...

KnowBe4 is hiring people for our sales team in Tampa Bay FL

Jul 28, 2014 5:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 will pay anyone a thousand bucks for a referral that gets us a good sales rep!

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.

Cryptolocker Is Not Dead

Jul 17, 2014 1:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tyler Moffitt, Threat Team Member at Webroot wrote:

ALERT: Ransomware Infection = Official Data Breach

Jul 16, 2014 4:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is one of the rare Cyberheist NewsFlash issues that we send when we run into something important enough to alert you about right away. Please forward to your friends and colleagues.

Brokerage house Gets Hit With CryptoWall Ransomware

Jul 15, 2014 3:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The brokerage house, Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., announced this week that they had suffered a data breach. May 24, 2014 they had their computer systems compromised by an unauthorized ...

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 ...

KnowBe4 Is Hiring A Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

Jul 8, 2014 5:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are hiring a Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

[InfoGraphic] Ransomware Threats Concern Survey

Jul 8, 2014 7:43:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We surveyed over 300 system administrators regarding ransomware, here are the results:

Fascinating Phishing Attack On Bitcoin Auction Bidders

Jul 7, 2014 1:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ever hear of CoinDesk? They are a news site about pricing and other info about digital currencies. They reported a fascinating phishing attack on a list of auction participants.

The Evolution of Mobile Ransomware

Jul 3, 2014 1:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major cyberattack. Like PCs back in the early days -- the 1990s -- mobile phones are largely unprotected by ...

Phishing Websites Up 10 percent First Quarter 2014

Jul 3, 2014 11:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The United States continued to host the majority of phishing websites in the first quarter of 2014, but did not even crack the top 36 when it came to global computer infection rates, ...

Prepare yourself for high-stakes cyber ransom

Jul 2, 2014 11:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Roger Grimes over at InfoWorld did a great write-up about the state of cyber ransom these days. He also went back in history for a while and gives the factors that have led up to the ...

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 ...

New KnowBe4 Survey Shows IT Pros Concern About Ransomware Skyrocketing

Jun 27, 2014 4:11:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security Awareness Training and Backup Voted Most Effective Solutions to Combat CryptoLocker

Stand-alone CryptoLocker Variant Found

Jun 22, 2014 5:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It looks like the Russian evil genius behind Cryptolocker, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, has not been sitting still since the recent international law enforcement "Operation Tovar" which ...

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