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Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.

Hacked Lawyers Office Sends Phishing Attack To Customers

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

FBI Alert: Ransomware Infection Leads To Wire Transfer Fraud

OK, Heads-up! Here is the deal. The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) two days ago warned about a new version of a man-in-the-middle scam that targets your CEO, CTO, CFO, ...

Defense In Depth: Your Answer To Social Engineering

Organizations defend their networks on each of the six levels in the green graph you see. End-user Internet Security Awareness Training resides in the outer layer: ‘Policies, Procedures, ...

New ransomware called "extortionware" in 2015? Not so much...

TK Keanini, CTO, Lancope wrote a 2015 Predictions editorial over at SC Magazine. He said he expects more malware like CryptoLocker and CryptoWall over the next 12 months, but also ...

A new strain of "ransomware" is striking

Mitch Lipka of CBS Moneywatch wrote:

Scam of The Week: LinkedIn Greeting Cards Carrying Malware

System admins hold the keys to the kingdom. The NSA is actively hunting for system admin credentials. A popular way to get you to click on something that installs zero-day malware on your ...

Malware Used To Wipe Sony's Drives Was Quick And Dirty

It's still not clear (and it may never be discovered) how the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK) hackers came in, perhaps they used all available threat vectors since ...

Hackers Spear-phish ICANN And Compromise DNS Zone System

It does not get any worse than this. Or better than this, if you are a criminal hacker. Domain-name management organization ICANN announced it has been hacked and its DNS zone ...

New Ransomware called KEYHolder from CryptorBit Cybergang

Bleeping Computer had the scoop again: " A new ransomware has been released called KEYHolder that is from the same developers of CryptorBit . Like CryptorBit, this infection encrypts your ...

Breaking News 2 New Ransomware Strains

#1 OphionLocker The first one is a new strain of ransomware named OphionLocker. It encrypts your data using strong open source Crypto++ Elliptical Curve Cryptography and then ransoms the ...

Experts: The Human Factor Key Challenge To Information Security

The lack of awareness and understanding of risks is one of the biggest challenges to information security, according to a panel of experts. Research showed that 93% of data breaches ...

Ransomware Beats APT In Terms Of Severe Impact

MalwareBytes Research showed that in the year 2014, 82% of companies were attacked online. Their research also showed that browser vulnerabilities will be the biggest challenge going ...

Phishing Lessons Learned in 2014? Employee Training Matters

Our friends at Wombat created a good summary why security awareness training is a must these days. Why?

Top 10 InfoSec Pain Points

Savvy Hackers Use Spearphishing to steal Wall Street M&A info

What if you knew beforehand about mergers and acquisitions, and could trade with that inside information? Well that's been going on for more than a year.


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