A Majority of Organizations Experience Breaches Despite a Majority Saying They Are Prepared to Defend Against Them

Nov 18, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The mismatch of signals by IT organizations shows a potential overestimation on IT’s part about its ability to prevent and protect against new cyberthreats.

[Heads Up] This New, Unusual Ransomware Strain Goes Exclusively After Servers

Nov 12, 2019 11:52:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Danny Palmer at ZDnet alerted on the following: "An unconventional form of ransomware is being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers – and it appears to have links to ...

TrickBot Malware Uses Highly Personalized Fake Sexual Harassment Complaints as Phishing Bait

Nov 12, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fake sexual harassment complaints appearing to come from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are the latest baits used by attackers to disseminate TrickBot banking ...

People Need to Work Together to Spot Con Artists

Nov 12, 2019 6:53:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It might not be possible to resist a good con artist, according to award-winning author, journalist, and champion poker player Maria Konnikova. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, ...

Phishing Resistance for Charities

Nov 11, 2019 2:19:55 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

81% of charities say they’ve been targeted by a phishing attack this year, according to Ed Macnair, writing for UK Fundraising. Meanwhile, only 37% of charities think their IT and ...

Specially Crafted ZIP Files Used to Bypass Secure Email Gateways

Nov 8, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Attackers are always looking for new tricks to distribute malware without them being detected by antivirus scanners and secure email gateways. This was illustrated in a new phishing ...

The Most Fascinating Layer in a SOC: The Human Layer

Nov 7, 2019 8:00:00 AM By Jelle Wieringa

During my travels, the topic of security operations comes up often. And nearly every security professional I talk to is either contemplating or already implementing some form of ...

APWG Q3 Report: Phishing Attacks at Highest Level in Three Years

Nov 5, 2019 10:38:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the number of phishing attacks continued to rise into the autumn of 2019. The total number of phishing sites detected by APWG ...

Healthcare Industry Names KnowBe4 As The 2019 Top Rated Platform For Cybersecurity Training & Education

Nov 4, 2019 10:22:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Black Book Market Research LLC surveyed over 2,876 security professionals from 733 provider organizations to identify gaps, vulnerabilities and deficiencies that persist in keeping ...

American Nikkei Employee Falls For Social Engineering Scam And Loses 29 Million Dollars

Nov 4, 2019 7:48:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phil Muncaster at InfoSec Mag had the (painful) scoop: "Media giant Nikkei has become the latest firm to suffer a humiliating Business Email Compromise (BEC), after it admitted losing ...

[Heads Up] Scam Of The Week: Phishing Attacks Using Better Benefits And Pay Raise Bait

Nov 2, 2019 9:25:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Millions of employees use KnowBe4's Phish Alert Button to report suspect emails, and thousands of organizations share these reports with us. This has become a fascinating threat source, ...

Webroot Threat Researchers Take a Fresh Look at Phishing Tactics

Nov 1, 2019 7:15:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Most people aren’t aware of how sophisticated phishing email templates and websites have become, according to David Dufour from Webroot. Dufour recently told the CyberWire that criminals ...

[Heads-Up] North Korean Malware Found On Indian Nuclear Plant's Network

Oct 31, 2019 7:05:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I am not a happy camper. This is exactly why I have been insisting on security awareness training for employees at critical infrastructure organizations. This could have been a Real Life ...

Lessons Learned From Vishing Robocall Attacks In Mandarin

Oct 31, 2019 6:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Among the specialized forms of vishing are those that target specific language communities. Chinese-speaking people in the US and around the world are increasingly being targeted with ...

Ransomware Attack Causes School 'District-Wide Shutdown'

Oct 30, 2019 6:51:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A ransomware attack hitting Las Cruces Public Schools forced the district to shut down the entire computer system to contain the infection.

Vishing, from (not) the Bank

Oct 30, 2019 5:59:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We saw yesterday how phishing affects the financial sector. Here we see another, related trend: impersonation attacks that purport to be from the victim’s bank.

Phishing Attack Targets Humanitarian Organizations

Oct 28, 2019 7:01:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at Lookout have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including UNICEF and the Red Cross. The infrastructure ...

CNN Says "Hack Our Reporter," and White Hat Rachel Tobac Does

Oct 24, 2019 6:54:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It’s “disturbingly easy” to steal someone’s personal data using information gleaned from their social media accounts, according to Donie O’Sullivan at CNN. O’Sullivan met with Rachel ...

Credential Phishing With a Masked URL

Oct 23, 2019 5:55:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cofense warns of a phishing campaign going after credentials for the Stripe online payment platform. The attackers are sending emails purporting to be from Stripe Support, telling the ...

A New Strain of Tech Support Scam in the U.K.

Oct 22, 2019 6:54:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The BBC reports a tech support scam that caused a British man, Doug Varey, to lose £4,000. The scam began when Mr. Varey saw an online ad for twelve years’ worth of computer security ...

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