Google Kicks Harmful Apps Out Of Google Play And Offers 5 Steps Against Social Engineering

You're always better off getting apps from reputable stores like Google Play than you are from potentially dodgy, at best unknown, third-party sites. But even Google Play isn't immune ...

November 28, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Surface Web vs. Deep Web vs. Dark Web: Differences Explained

These three terms are often a source of confusion, especially in connection with cybercrime and where that comes from. If you think that search engines like Google (there are more!) know ...

November 25, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Spam was nearly dead, then it became an essential tool for crime and came roaring back

John Christian at TheOutline wrote a post that made me take notice because it neatly summarized the current state of affairs and confirms our own experience: spam has morphed and is back ...

November 22, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Uber Total Loss: 57 Million Records Stolen But Data Breach Was Hidden For A Year

Oh boy. Uber is known for pushing the limits of the law and has dozens of lawsuits pending against it, but this one went too far and now comes the reckoning. Bloomberg was first to report ...

November 11, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

[ALERT] This Scary New Phishing Attack Is Very Hard To Detect

You need to know about a new phishing attack vector reported by our friends at Barkly. It utilizes a new technique that's just plain nasty. This week, users at one of their customers ...

November 9, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

[On-Demand Webinar] Phishing and Social Engineering in 2018

Ransomware has tipped the 1 billion mark and damages are expected to be around 5 billion before the year is out. Use of ransomware has evolved throughout the year with a 600% rise in URL ...

November 1, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Is combosquatting a new trick hackers use to lure users into visiting malicious websites?

Georgia Tech researchers reported that hackers are using a technique identified with a newly coined term "combosquatting" to trick users into visiting malicious websites. Sorry to break ...

October 30, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Putin Uses Psychiatrists For Social Engineering Attacks Against Individual Targets

Newsweek cross-posted an article that first appeared on The Daily Signal, and this is extremely relevant to what we are battling here today. Kiev, Ukraine—Since 2014, Russia has used ...

October 25, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Worldwide Bad Rabbit Ransomware Outbreak Starts With Social Engineering

Organizations in Russia, Ukraine and a few hours later also the U.S. are under siege from Bad Rabbit , a new strain of ransomware which is basically a new, improved NotPetya version 2, ...

November 4, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. Yes, it's really malicious.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago threat researchers at Proofpoint made a startling discovery : the bad guys had figured out a way to turn Paypal itself ...

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