[HEADS UP] Cybercriminals Threaten Patients in Clinic Data Breach

Oct 26, 2020 5:56:32 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a recent report by BBC News, patients in a large clinic in Finland have been blackmailed using social engineering after their data was stolen.

[HEADS UP] Cybercriminal Sells Info on 186 Million U.S. Voters

Oct 23, 2020 12:56:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a recent report by NBC News, cybersecurity company TrustWave found a bad guy selling voter registration data on 186 million Americans.

The Ultimate Cyber Security Tip

Oct 23, 2020 8:12:41 AM By Javvad Malik

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, and the security advice is flowing out from all corners of the web to advise your users on remaining secure. However, all this information can be ...

Middle Management is the Next Target for Phishing Attacks

Oct 22, 2020 8:23:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Mid-level managers need to be particularly wary of targeted phishing attacks, according to Jenn Gast at INKY. Gast explains that criminals can easily conduct open-source research on a ...

Notes on Social Engineering, and What to Do About It

Oct 21, 2020 8:24:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks are growing in prevalence during the pandemic, according to David Dufour, Vice President of Engineering and Cybersecurity at Webroot. Webroot’s recent threat report ...

The Geography of Business Email Compromise

Oct 20, 2020 8:35:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Agari have released a report on the global distribution of business email compromise (BEC) actors, and determined that 25% of these criminals are operating from within the ...

FINRA Yet Again Becomes the Impersonated Brand at the Center of Phishing Attacks on Brokerage Firms

Oct 14, 2020 3:24:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A mix of domain, phishing emails, a dash of social engineering, and a survey are the recipe for a simple and yet effective campaign targeting the financial sector.

[eSummit] Your Cybersecurity Awareness Month Action Plan

Oct 13, 2020 10:23:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber threat actors are getting more creative and more skilled at hacking the human. That's why we've created this cybersecurity eSummit to look at evolving attack techniques your end ...

Sophisticated Mercenary Group Excels at Social Engineering

Oct 13, 2020 8:23:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An extremely skilled group of hackers-for-hire dubbed “Bahamut” is using sophisticated social engineering tactics against a range of targets around the world, researchers at BlackBerry ...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Weekly Tip: Current Phishing Threats

Oct 9, 2020 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Each week during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re going to be sharing in-depth weekly cybersecurity tips from our evangelists to help your users make smarter security decisions and ...

An Autopsy of a $15 Million Heist

Oct 8, 2020 11:33:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A company in the US lost $15 million in a two-month-long business email compromise scam, BleepingComputer reports. Researchers at Mitiga who investigated the attack told BleepingComputer ...

Gartner Recognizes KnowBe4 as a Representative Vendor for Security Awareness Training Program Platforms

Oct 7, 2020 8:31:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We believe, as the world's largest security awareness training platform, this recognition validates the success of our ability to carry out our mission. We enable organizations and their ...

Healthcare Sector Still Sustains Phishing Campaigns

Oct 5, 2020 8:29:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

No one should take too seriously the high-minded things criminals sometimes say about how they’re restraining themselves during the pandemic, and that they’re going to avoid hitting ...

Interesting Mini-Movie On Disinformation From The FBI

Oct 3, 2020 8:39:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) released a new movie to increase awareness of how foreign intelligence entities use fake profiles and other forms ...

Two Men Charged in a Case of Phishing NFL and NBA Players

Oct 2, 2020 8:25:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Department of Justice has charged two men for allegedly hacking social media and other accounts belonging to NFL and NBA players, Mashable reports. Trevontae Washington, 21, of ...

Phishing Attacks Continue to Grow More Sophisticated

Sep 30, 2020 8:24:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Both criminal and nation-state threat actors have “rapidly increased in sophistication” over the past twelve months, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense report. Microsoft found that ...

Organizations Working From Home Opens Wider Target for Cybercriminals

Sep 28, 2020 8:28:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With so many people working from home, more attackers are adapting their strategies to focus on employees as a way to bypass organizations’ defenses, FCW reports. During a webcast hosted ...

Tribune Publishing apologizes for fake bonus offer in phishing-simulation email

Sep 24, 2020 10:29:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yesterday at the end of the day, I was called by our PR team who got alerted by tech support about a Twitter post that was going viral. Turns out a custom phishing test created by one of ...

How to Become a Harder Target From Malicious Threat Actors

Sep 16, 2020 8:30:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an advisory regarding threat actors associated with China’s Ministry of State ...

High-Profile Caper Spawns Phishing Campaign

Sep 15, 2020 8:31:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A phishing campaign is using the recent Twitter hack as phishbait, HackRead reports. In mid-July, hackers used social engineering against Twitter employees to gain access to more than a ...

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