Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Massive hacks continue to fill the front page of major media outlets. The recent hack of the Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Chinese state-sponsored hackers again showed ...
I have been talking for years at this blog about the Chinese hacking into the U.S. for mainly espionage, using highly sophisticated social engineering and spear-phishing attacks. This ...
8/19/2015 UPDATE: Yesterday the full 10 Gigabyte database was released on the Internet, with all records including confidential files related to the company itself. People that registered ...
According to the 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey, nearly three quarters (73 percent) of top security professionals think it likely that their organizations will be hit with a major data ...
A British hedgefund lost more than a million dollars in a social engineering attack on their Chief Financial Officer Thomas Meston, and there is an expensive court case going on because ...
OK, so here is the latest scam of the week, possibly fueled by the recent news that we have run out of IPv4 addresses in the U.S. Employees receive an email which claims to be from the ...
An Eastern European cybercrime gang has started a new TorrentLocker ransomware campaign where whole websites of energy companies, government organizations and large enterprises are being ...
"Newly leaked, confidential documents have revealed details into a cyberattack aimed at Bitstamp, a company that fundamentally deals as a cryptocurrency trader, according to a report in ...
And yes, as we predicted, there are now phishing attacks that mimic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach notifications. The breach has expanded to millions more records. It ...
You may not be aware that there is a scale of seven deadly vices connected to social engineering (SE). The deadliest SE attacks are the ones that have the highest success rates, often ...
The SANS InfoSec Forums noted that since Monday May 25th a new version of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware started, using both malicious spam and the Angler exploit kit (EK). The attack wave has ...
You may know Gartner, the 800-pound gorilla in the IT Analyst space. When a market is mature enough they create their so-called Magic Quadrant (MQ) with the leading vendors in that ...
Guys, we have a real phishing problem with this Adult Friend Finder (AFF) hack. This particular adult site is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites in the U.S. and has 40 million ...
A few days ago, you may have read the news that Tesla Motors had their website and Twitter accounts hijacked by pranksters. OpenDNS has a blog post that goes into great technical detail.
According to a new CyberEdge research survey of 19 sectors, including government, spearphishing is the biggest concern to IT security pros, more worrisome than even malware. And only 20 ...
New Ransomware CrypVault Evades AV With Simple Batch Scripts A new ransomware strain dubbed CRYPVAULT by Trend Micro is being spread as an email attachment. It's currently focusing on ...
April 7, 2015 - CNN reported that The White House said it noticed suspicious activity in the unclassified network that serves the executive office of the president. The KnowBe4 Blog ...
Fortune reported: "Each fall, Facebook hosts an event called Hacktober in which its security experts attempt to trick employees into falling for common hacking tricks such as phishing ...
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 ...
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 ...
