10 Hacking Facts / How They Impact You [Infographic]

Apr 4, 2015 12:01:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing concerns for business and consumers, especially when it comes to social media. So much personal identifiable information (PII) exists across the ...

IBM: 'Dyre Wolf' Cyber Gang Uses Spear Phishing For $1 Million Cyberheists

Apr 4, 2015 10:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, IBM Security reported on an active cyberheist campaign using a variant of the Dyre Trojan that has successfully stolen more than $1 million at a time from targeted enterprise ...

ALERT: New Ransomware Spearphish Uses One-Click Dropbox Attack

Mar 30, 2015 8:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The cyber-mafia is stepping up the pressure. As you know, there are several competing gangs that are furiously innovating in an attempt to grab as much money as possible. Call it a ...

Scam Of The Week: 911 Phone Threat

Mar 28, 2015 2:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Residents in Ohio are being "beta tested" by cybercrime for a scam that will inevitably also hit all other states. Here is your Scam Of The Week heads-up. This particular scam will also ...

Experts: Social Engineering Attacks Harder To Stop

Mar 28, 2015 10:42:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Michael Heller at TechTarget wrote a good longish article where he concluded: "As more personal and corporate information is shared on the Web, social engineering techniques and attacks ...

Premera And Anthem Both Hacked Using Shrewd Social Engineering

Mar 21, 2015 10:11:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Health records are the new credit cards. They have a longer shelf life and are often easier to get. There are more opportunities for fraud. No wonder that bad guys are after them with a ...

CEO Fraud Social Engineering Scam On The Rise

Mar 10, 2015 10:40:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Known variously as the “CEO fraud,” or the “business email compromise,” highly sophisticated cyber criminals try to social engineer businesses that work with foreign suppliers. This ...

How To Get The OK To Phish Your Own Employees

Feb 28, 2015 2:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

IT people responsible for network security talk to us all the time. Almost all of them agree that end-users are their number one headache and managing that problem continues to be a big ...

Intel Report About Social Engineering

Feb 23, 2015 4:13:59 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a new report, Hacking the Human OS, McAfee (owned by Intel) security researchers Raj Samani and Charles McFarland found that, increasingly, hackers are using social engineering ...

Just Got A Social Engineering Call That The IRS Is Suing Me

Feb 20, 2015 9:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This morning, Feb 20, 2015 at 8am at the house I received a robo-call in a female voice that said the following:

More Phishing Attacks Going After Financial Data

Feb 17, 2015 11:27:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. The results show how cybercrime has shifted its focus to payment ...

More Than 16 Million Devices Are Infected With Mobile Malware

Feb 15, 2015 4:41:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Pierluigi Paganini blogged about a recent study published by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs which reported that 16 million devices worldwide have been infected by mobile malware.

World's Biggest Cyberheist Cybergang Phished $900 Million Out Of Banks

Feb 15, 2015 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 100 financial institutions in 30 countries have been the victim of a cyberheist that lasted in some cases almost 2 years. This was not a smash-and-grab but a highly ...

Anthem Breach Began with Phishing of Employees

Feb 11, 2015 2:23:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last updated 2/12/2015 - The foreign hackers who stole up to 80 million records from Anthem social engineered their way into the company's network by obtaining the credentials of five ...

Hacked Lawyers Office Sends Phishing Attack To Customers

Feb 10, 2015 4:47:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

An interesting new wrinkle in phishing attacks is in the wild as we speak. A system administrator reported the following on the spiceworks forum:

Malware Hijacks Microsoft Outlook And Spreads Banking Trojan

Feb 10, 2015 10:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I mentioned a few months ago that I expected something like this, but it has materialized faster than I expected. Trend Micro researchers discovered a new version of the Dyre banking ...

Spear Phishing Attack Makes $17.2 Million In Three Days

Feb 7, 2015 12:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Corporate cybercrime on an international scale has hit one of Omaha’s biggest and oldest companies. CEO Chuck Elsea's email address was spoofed and this cost them millions because their ...

Slideshow: The Worst Of The Worst Phishing Scams

Feb 5, 2015 3:51:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

www.CSOonline.com provides news, analysis and research on a broad range of security and risk management topics. Areas of focus include information security, physical security, business ...

Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem 80 million records

Feb 5, 2015 7:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last updated Feb 7, 2015 - Both the Wall Street Journal and cyber security blogger Brian Krebs reported that Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurer disclosed that hackers ...

Graphics Make Phishing Attacks Work Better

Feb 2, 2015 5:29:57 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A successful phishing attack has several elements that all together convince the victim that the email is legit and that they need to act on the message. One of these elements sems to be ...

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