Phishing Campaigns Using Google Firebase Storage

May 26, 2020 8:31:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scammers are hosting phishing pages on Google Firebase Storage to bypass email security filters, Threatpost reports. Firebase is a Google-owned application development platform that ...

[Heads Up] The COVID Remote Work Mandate Skyrockets "Work From Home" Training Enrollments

May 21, 2020 1:51:12 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 was one of the first to warn first about the impending COVID phishing tsunami on Jan 31, 2020. The bad guys did not disappoint and went all-out, all cylinders firing, and pulled ...

Preying on the Unemployed

May 20, 2020 8:20:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An SMS phishing campaign has been exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by spoofing the website of a job placement agency, the New York Daily News reports. The scammers set up a website that ...

The Three Pillars of the Three Computer Security Pillars

May 18, 2020 8:31:59 AM By Roger Grimes

Much of the world, or at least the United States, is coalescing around the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It’s a pretty good one to follow out of the many dozens that have been proposed ...

Scammers Exploit Rollout of COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps

May 18, 2020 8:18:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An SMS phishing campaign is telling people they’ve come into contact with someone who’s contracted COVID-19, Computing reports. The UK’s Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) ...

Dutch Online Retailer Wehkamp Loses 144,000 Euros in Bankruptcy Business Email Compromise

May 15, 2020 9:45:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber criminals successfully gained access to email traffic between bankruptcy trustees and Wehkamp – one of the biggest online retailers in The Netherlands – writes RTL Z. Employees of ...

That Email from President Trump? Yeah, That’s a Phishing Scam

May 14, 2020 11:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New phishing scams impersonating President Trump and Vice President Pence are designed to install malware or be the start of an extortion scam.

World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Falls For $10m Social Engineering Attack

May 14, 2020 8:29:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Norwegian Investment Fund has been swindled out of 10 million dollars by fraudsters who pulled off a social engineering attack that the Norfund called "an advanced data breach" but ...

Watch Out for the Coming Tsunami of Mortgage Rescue Phishing Scams

May 13, 2020 8:22:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

At this point in time, with 10 years of phishing attack analysis under our belt, we can predict with a high reliability level what will be showing up in the near future. We see two scams ...

Why Does Someone Click and Become a Victim of a Scam?

May 12, 2020 11:25:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One of the keys to thwarting social engineering attacks is knowing what makes us want to click on links or respond to emails, according to cybersecurity expert Raef Meeuwisse. In an ...

[Scam of The Week] Unemployed Americans Are Now Deceived Into Grabbing ‘Remote Jobs’ As Money Mules

May 8, 2020 2:29:50 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There are now tens of millions of people suddenly unemployed, looking for ways to make ends meet.

Cybercriminals Lean Heavily on Social Engineering Tactics to Gain Access to Bank Accounts

May 7, 2020 10:30:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A series of attack anecdotes shared by Brian Krebs shows how persistent and sophisticated scammers are in using social engineering tactics to gain access to their victim’s bank account ...

What is the Right Password Policy?

May 7, 2020 8:15:00 AM By Roger Grimes

What is the right password policy? Conventional password policies say you must have a password at least 8-12 characters long…16 characters or longer if it belongs to an elevated ...

Q&A With Data-Driven Evangelist Roger Grimes on the Great Password Debate

May 6, 2020 10:03:21 AM By Roger Grimes

I get asked a lot about password policy during my travels around the globe giving presentations and from people who email after webinars. Many of the questions are the same and I’ve ...

Reuters: 'State-backed hackers targeting coronavirus responders'

May 5, 2020 11:25:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government-backed hackers are attacking healthcare and research institutions in an effort to steal valuable information about efforts to contain the new ...

PerSwaysion: Convincing Executives to Act Against Their Own Interest

May 4, 2020 8:26:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Group-IB have discovered a sophisticated spear phishing campaign that’s targeted executives at more than 150 companies around the world since mid-2019. The researchers have ...

GitHub is the Latest Target of Social Engineering Phishing Attacks

May 4, 2020 7:15:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Using simple alert-style email notices, scammers look to steal credentials to gain access to development code, intellectual property, and project details.

Half of all Breaches Start with Phishing and Social Engineering

May 4, 2020 7:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data shows successful attacks on internal networks, cloud environments, and POS systems all are very susceptible to this common attack vector.

Is That COVID-19 Email Legitimate or a Phish?

May 1, 2020 8:39:23 AM By Roger Grimes

It’s no surprise that phishers and scammers are using the avalanche of new information and events involving the global coronavirus pandemic as a way to successfully phish more victims. ...

Scammers Can Use Recent Transactions to Trick You

Apr 30, 2020 8:53:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KrebsOnSecurity reports that scammers are using caller ID spoofing to impersonate their victims, and then socially engineering victims’ banks into divulging information about recent ...

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